Do insecurely attached individuals perceive greater rejection from their heritage culture? Few studies have examined the antecedents and outcomes of this perceived rejection – termed intragroup marginalization – in spite of its implications for the adjustment of cultural migrants to the mainstream culture. This study investigated whether anxious and avoidant attachment orientations among cultur...

Do insecurely attached individuals perceive greater rejection from their heritage culture? Few studies have examined the antecedents and outcomes of this perceived rejection - termed intragroup marginalization - in spite of its implications for the adjustment of cultural migrants to the mainstream culture. This study investigated whether anxious and avoidant attachment orientations among cultur...

Bangladesh, a flat densely populated country in dynamic delta, is vulnerable to recurring flood disasters. Various types of structural and non-structural risk reduction interventions have been implemented over the years safeguard people assets. In that context, present study assesses community perception about implications such diverse on resilience, three reasonably proximate settlements, with...

There are two basic pieces of ground clearing needed before we get specific. First, marginalization is a relational statement. A category X cannot be marginalized in and of itself. It always has to be marginalized in relation to some other category, Y. So conceptualization requires an explicit statement of both X and Y—although in many cases Y is thought of implicitly as “the rest of society”, ...

This paper explores the role of pooled-producer, e.g. private label, trade intermediation in shaping the range and diversity of exports. Direct sales maintain a firm’s unique product characteristics (‘brand equity’), whereas trade through an intermediary can take two forms – either a wholesaling arrangement that (also) maintains the exporter’s unique brand but imposes a higher marginal cost (vi...

In this paper we introduce deep Gaussian process (GP) models. Deep GPs are a deep belief network based on Gaussian process mappings. The data is modeled as the output of a multivariate GP. The inputs to that Gaussian process are then governed by another GP. A single layer model is equivalent to a standard GP or the GP latent variable model (GP-LVM). We perform inference in the model by approxim...

This paper investigates the large and unexpected increase in cigarette prices that followed the 1997 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA). We integrate key features of rational addiction theory into a discrete-choice model of the demand for a differentiated product. We find that, following the MSA, firms set prices on a more elastic region of their demand curves. Using these estimates, we predict ...

We investigate the empirical puzzle why banks pressured their analysts to provide aggressive assessments of issuing firms during the 1990s when doing so apparently had little positive effect on their chances of receiving lead-management appointments and ultimately led to regulatory penalties and costly structural reform. We show that aggressively optimistic research can attract co-management ap...

Given a set of sample data, we study three alternative methods for determining the pre-dictive distribution of an unseen data vector. In particular, we are interested in the behavior of the predictive accuracy of these three predictive methods as a function of the degree of the domain assumption violations. We explore this question empirically by using artiicially generated data sets, where the...