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Boxing has long grappled with the problem of biased or "bad" judging. At its worst, this leads to "Robberies", where boxers are widely seen as being denied rightful victories. Such incidents risk alienating fans and athletes. To address this problem, we propose a minimalist adjustment to the scoring system: the winner would be decided from the round-by-round scores of the judges, rather than relying on the judges' overall bout scores. This approach, known as consensus scoring, is rooted in so...

Supplier firms in the Global South face compounded risks from political instability that challenge their ability to maintain participation in global value chains (GVCs). While resilience is increasingly acknowledged as a critical capability, it remains unclear how suppliers develop resilience when conventional GVC governance strategies, often grounded in institutional stability, prove insufficient. This gap is especially pronounced in knowledge-intensive service sectors like software developm...

This paper extends standard AR and HAR models for realised volatility (RV) forecasting to include nonlinearity through two broad regime-switching approaches, the smooth transition and Markov-switching methods. Using daily data for eight international stock markets over the period 2007–2021, a comprehensive comparison is provided using a range of forecast tests that includes statistical and economic (risk management) based metrics. The results show that regime-switching models provide a better...