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This study conceives of Thomas Hoccleve's Regement of Princes (1410-1413) as an essentially performative text, one that expresses its awareness of the manuscript culture in which it is so firmly rooted. The openness of manuscripts is a recurring subject in the Regement and is not only expressed through mere descriptions of, but through complex references to this manuscript context. Performances of manuscript culture manifest themselves in several aspects of the text. The first is the narrator persona, and especially the question of how persona and text are intertwined. The second is the constantly recurring interpretation of "es from authoritative sources that pervades the Regement. This urge to interpret is expressed both in the tradition of adding marginal glosses and in the process of subjecting the text to an exegetical reading. The third aspect is the relation between text and images in the Regement's manuscripts, which shows how mediality is performed and how the manuscript context is made the focus of this performance. In this monograph, all of these aspects are studied in a mindset that combines the concept of performativity with the postulations of Material Philology.
Literature, Medieval --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Literature and society --- Political poetry, English (Middle) --- English political poetry, Middle --- Middle English political poetry --- Political poetry, English --- Political poetry, Middle English --- English poetry --- Criticism, Textual. --- History. --- History --- History and criticism. --- Hoccleve, Thomas, --- Philology. --- Material Philology. --- Performativity. --- Regement of Princes. --- Thomas Hoccleve.
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Partisan bias affects the decisions of financial analysts. Using a novel hand-collected dataset that links credit rating analysts to party affiliations from voter registration records, we show that analysts who are not affiliated with the U.S. President's party are more likely to downward-adjust corporate credit ratings. Our identification approach compares analysts with different party affiliations covering the same firm at the same point in time, ensuring that differences in the fundamentals of rated firms cannot explain the results. The effect is more pronounced in periods of high partisan conflict and for analysts who vote frequently. Our results suggest that partisan bias and political polarization create distortions in the cost of capital of U.S. firms.
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This collection of essays explores medieval and early modern Troilus-texts from Chaucer to Shakespeare. The contributions show how medieval and early modern fictions of Troy use love and other emotions as a means of approaching the problem of tradition. As these texts reflect on their own traditionality, they highlight both the affective nature of temporality and the role of affect in scrutinising tradition itself. Focusing on a specific textual lineage that bridges the conventional period boundaries, the collection participates in an exchange between medievalists and early modernists that seeks to generate a dialogic encounter between the periods with the aim of further dismantling the rigid notions of chronology and periodisation that have kept medieval and early modern scholarship apart.
Love in literature. --- Emotions in literature. --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- Shakespeare, William, --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Geschichte --- Liebe --- Chaucer, Geoffrey. --- Shakespeare, William --- Troilus and Criseyde (Chaucer, Geoffrey) --- Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare, William) --- William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare, William) --- History of Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare, William) --- Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida (Shakespeare, William) --- Troilus & Criseyde (Chaucer, Geoffrey) --- Pierpont Morgan Library (Chaucer, Geoffrey) --- Troilus and Cressida (Chaucer, Geoffrey) --- Chaucer. --- New Historicist paradigm. --- Shakespeare. --- Troilus and Criseyde. --- anticipatory emotion. --- authorial humility. --- early modern fiction. --- emotion. --- gendered female. --- hermeneutical acts. --- late medieval Troy tradition. --- literary combat. --- literary narratives. --- literary studies. --- medieval fiction. --- military combat. --- sententiousness. --- sexual frustration. --- temporality. --- tradition.
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Partisan perception affects the actions of professionals in the financial sector. Using a novel dataset linking credit rating analysts to party affiliations from voter records, we show that analysts who are not affiliated with the U.S. president's party downward-adjust corporate credit ratings more frequently. By comparing analysts with different party affiliations covering the same firm in the same quarter, we ensure that differences in firm fundamentals cannot explain the results. We also find a sharp divergence in the rating actions of Democratic and Republican analysts around the 2016 presidential election. Our results show analysts' partisan perception has sizable price effects on rated firms and may influence firms' investment policies.
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We compare the findings of central bank researchers and academic economists regarding the macroeconomic effects of quantitative easing (QE). We find that central bank papers find QE to be more effective than academic papers do. Central bank papers report larger effects of QE on output and inflation. They also report QE effects on output that are more significant, both statistically and economically, and they use more positive language in the abstract. Central bank researchers who report larger QE effects on output experience more favorable career outcomes. A survey of central banks reveals substantial involvement of bank management in research production.
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Executive teams in U.S. firms are becoming increasingly partisan. We establish this new fact using political affiliations from voter registration records for top executives of S&P 1500 firms between 2008 and 2020. The new fact is explained by both an increasing share of Republican executives and increased assortative matching by executives on political affiliation. Executives who are misaligned with the political majority of their team are more likely to leave the firm, especially in recent years, and their company's stock price responds negatively to the announcement of their departure. Combined, our findings indicate that the increasing political polarization of corporate America may not be in the financial interest of shareholders.
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