Thai-fusion popular feminism:the beginning of #DontTellMeHowToDress on Instagram

The campaign #DontTellMeHowToDress opposed the assumption that dressing provocatively invokes sexual violence. Feminism has re-emerged in digital culture, yet, to date, this landscape has been found primarily in Anglo-American and European contexts. This article investigates how feminism enacted itself in the Thai context through the expressions of #DontTellMeHowToDress by female influencers and celebrities. I conducted a discourse analysis of over 100 Instagram posts shared by influencers and celebrities around the start of the campaign. The results foreground the importance of digital technologies for offering relatively young Thais, who generally hold more progressive views about society, a platform for voicing their concerns and leading to a societal change. However, the feminism presented by this campaign advocated clothing-related propriety, a Thai conservative component re-entrenching patriarchy. The posts also illustrated an array of exclusionary characteristics in Thailand, having reproduced Thai hegemonic beauty ideals that are associated with not only overall slender and sexy styles, but also Anglo-European and East Asian standards. Additionally, this campaign monetised feminism via both self- and brand/service promotions. In short, #DontTellMeHowToDress represented “Thai-fusion popular feminism” that constituted an amalgam of Thai and Anglo-American and European discourses

Does financial market growth improve income distribution?:A comparison of developed and emerging market economies of the global sample

The objective of this research is to investigate the effects of stock market indicators, banking, and foreign direct investment inflows on income inequalities in developed and emerging market economies around the world. For this reason, the study utilizes annual data that range from 1981 to 2014 on the selected indicators. Given the nature of our variables, we employ panel autoregressive distributed lag models to explore the long‐run estimates of income inequalities. The long‐run estimates indicate that the stock market indicators have significant positive and negative impact on income inequalities in developed and emerging market economies, respectively. Further, our findings show that the banking credit adversely affects income inequalities both in developed and emerging economies. Our results also establish significant short‐run causalities among stock market indicators and income inequalities. Given these findings, we argue that the stock markets are playing an important role in reducing income inequalities in emerging economies whereas they contribute for higher inequalities in developed economies

Common trends in the US state-level crime. What do panel data say?

This paper aims to investigate the long-run relationship between crime, inequality, unemployment and deterrence using state-level data for the US over the period 1978- 2013. The novelty of the paper is to use non-stationary panels with factor structures. The results show that: i) a simple crime model well fits the long run relationship; ii) income inequality and unemployment have a positive impact on crime, whereas deterrence displays a negative sign; iii) the effect of income inequality on crime is large in magnitude; iv) property crime is generally highly sensitive to deterrence measures based upon police activities

Environmental regulation and U.S. states' technical inefficiency

Using data on 48 states from 1982-1994, we estimate the impact of environmental regulation on technical inefficiency of U.S. states' manufacturing sector. The result indicates that environmental stringency has significant and positive impacts on U.S. states' technical inefficiency.

The determinants of cross-border equity flows: a dynamic panel data reassessment

Portes and Rey (2005) use a static gravity model to analyse bilateral gross cross-border equity flows. Applying a dynamic gravity model reveals three additional insights. First, distance continues to exert a significant, negative effect on international asset transactions. Second, although the short-run effects of distance are generally of smaller magnitude than documented in PR, the implicit long-run effects remain quite large. Third, lagged asset flows play an important role, even after conditioning on the usual gravity model covariates.

Staggered Boards, Managerial Entrenchment, and Dividend Policy

Dividends, Classified boards, Staggered boards, Corporate governance, G30, G32, G35,

Subnational Trade Flows and State-Level Energy Intensity

Abstract In one strand of research, analysts examine trends in and the determinants of energy usage and intensity