Qing Zou asked me to contribute some remarks introductory to the book that follows. I have not read it. I have indeed only seen a relatively small number of pages. Moreover, although in the course of my career as a mathematician and, in general, in the course of my life, I have acquired a working knowledge of several languages, Chinese in any of its forms is not one of them. Consequently I have...

This study examined associations between trait emotional intelligence (trait EI) and two measures of body image, namely actual–ideal weight discrepancy and body appreciation. A total of 108 women completed the Photographic Figure Rating Scale, the Body Appreciation Scale, the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire, the Sociocultural Attitudes Toward Appearance Questionnaire-3, and provided ...

For [contemporary] social anthropologists, the important conclusion, always worth repeating, is that the observation and the labelling of 'behaviour' are inseparable from the importation of socially derived meanings even when observing monkeys. How much more so when the process is reflexive, when the observers and the observed are both 'meaning-makers' ... Edwin Ardener, 1977: Comprehending Oth...

Manyoo Agarwal Tolga Aksu Hakan Altay Siddhartha Angadi Efstratios Apostolou Dipanjan Banerjee Elie Chammas Francisco J. Cordova Frauke Czepluch Renato De Vecchis Erwan Donal Nicole Ebner Sonja Hochmeister Junichi Ishida Attila Kertész Masaaki Konishi Steffen Kriechbaum Goran Loncar Thomas Marwick Laura Meems Serafim Nanas Michel Noutsias Julio Núñez Line Lisbeth Olesen Ambarish Pandey Hitesh C...

This paper examines how unhedged currency exposure of firms varies with changes in currency flexibility. A sequence of four time-periods with alternating high and low currency volatility in India provides a natural experiment in which changes in currency exposure of a panel of firms is measured, and the moral hazard versus incomplete markets hypotheses tested. We find that firms carried higher ...