The discontinuation of cooperation with Russia in the Arctic Council response to Russian invasion Ukraine may severely impact climate science. Since its creation, has been a symbol diplomacy and values scientific integrity. However, all institutional research collaborations on hold few windows open for researcher-to-researcher dialogue, faces most significant challenge date. This article discus...

This paper analyzes how a firm’s returns and the stake of the controlling blockholders are affected when a bank becomes a blockholder with one of the largest stakes. Compared to previous studies, we approach this issue by taking into consideration the type of blockholders building up coalitions with banks in order to control a firm. This allows us to reconcile different results, reported in rel...

• Technology obsolescence • Very large quantities of digital information that may be worth preserving for reuse • Heterogeneous and complex digital resources • Lack of scalable methods for preservation • Economic models What is at stake? What is at stake? • Investments in conversion of information to digital form • Preservation of an increasing share of information that is " born-digital " • Ab...

If short sellers can destroy firm value by manipulating prices down in a “bear raid,” an informed blockholder has a powerful natural incentive to protect the value of his stake by trading against them. However, he also has an incentive to use his information to generate trading profits. We show that these conflicting objectives create a multiplier effect, whereby the buying quantity needed to d...

If managers, creditors, or other firm counterparties use stock prices when making decisions, short sellers may attempt to manipulate prices, inducing decisions that reduce firm value. However, an informed long-term shareholder has a natural incentive to ensure that prices send the right message so that the value of his existing stake is not harmed. While he can achieve that by buying enough sha...