This paper explores principal-principal conflicts in corporate governance during times of economic crisis. We address the question: What external and internal governance mechanisms can best protect minority shareholders? Drawing on 877 publicly listed large corporations with concentrated ownership in seven Asian countries and regions, we compare different control structures between family firms...

We analyze the 2007 European financial crisis' impact on demand for new language skills. The crisis affected German-speaking regions less. Learning German became relatively more attractive migration and trade. construct a sub-national database as foreign exam (TestDaF) participation rates between 2001–2013 define regional indicators. Using multiple-group, multiple-period difference-in-differenc...

Epidemic spreading has been well studied in the past decade, where the main concentration is focused on the influence of network topology but little attention is paid to the individual's crisis awareness. We here study how the crisis awareness, i.e., personal self-protection, influences the epidemic spreading by presenting a susceptible-infected-recovered model with information-driven vaccinati...

A system for scenario analysis and forecasting of mass migration is presented. The system consists of a family of multi-scale models to address the need of responding agencies for better situational awareness, short and medium-term forecasts of migration patterns, and assess impact of changes on the ground. Such insights allow for better planning and resource allocations to address migrant need...

It has become easier, with the passage of time, to forget what an extraordinary event the Asian financial crisis was. Before the crisis, the countries of east Asia had grown faster, for longer, than any other countries in recorded history. They had transformed their economies and the standard of living of their people in the course of a single generation. In 1960, some of the east Asian countri...

The Navy and Marine Corps provide the Nation with a flexible and joint instrument of security policy with which to promote stability, project maritime power landward, and exercise American sovereignty abroad. Naval forces shape the global security environment; help assure access to regions of vital interest; and permit timely, and frequently, the initial crisis response from the sea. The abilit...

Institutional altruism in the form of a public-sector intervention and support for victims and social altruism generated by mutual aid and solidarity among citizens constitute a coming together in a crisis. This coming together and mutual support precipitate a decrease in crime rates during such an event. This paper presents an analysis of daily fluctuations in crime during the prolonged ice st...