Alexandra Dias
Biographic Data
| ID | 3845211 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexandra Dias |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Dias |
| SIGNATURE | DIAS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Évora |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9978-5375 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“We Didn’t Fight for This”: The Pitfalls of State- and Nation-Building in Eritrea
The Influence of General Strikes against Government on Stock Market Behavior
Using a sample of 76 countries, this paper examines the impact of major strikes against government and its policies on stock market behavior. An occurrence of a general strike is detrimental to the value of equities, as documented by the ceteris paribus 6.11% fall in dollar‐denominated stock market indices of the affected countries. This event is also accompanied by a statistically significant increase in risk, as measured by the standard deviati…
"Language Is the Place from Where the World Is Seen"-On the Gender of Trees, Fruit Trees and Edible Fruits in Portuguese and in Other Latin-Derived Languages
Trees have always been important as natural entities carrying a strong symbolic and metaphorical weight, not to mention their practical uses. Therefore, words and their gender, used to name natural entities as important as trees and particularly fruit-trees and their fruits, are also important. Starting from the finding that Portuguese and Mirandese, the second official spoken language of Portugal, are Latin-derived languages in which 'tree' has …
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"Language Is the Place from Where the World Is Seen"-On the Gender of Trees, Fruit Trees and Edible Fruits in Portuguese and in Other Latin-Derived Languages
Trees have always been important as natural entities carrying a strong symbolic and metaphorical weight, not to mention their practical uses. Therefore, words and their gender, used to name natural entities as important as trees and particularly fruit-trees and their fruits, are also important. Starting from the finding that Portuguese and Mirandese, the second official spoken language of Portugal, are Latin-derived languages in which 'tree' has …
“We Didn’t Fight for This”: The Pitfalls of State- and Nation-Building in Eritrea
The Influence of General Strikes against Government on Stock Market Behavior
Using a sample of 76 countries, this paper examines the impact of major strikes against government and its policies on stock market behavior. An occurrence of a general strike is detrimental to the value of equities, as documented by the ceteris paribus 6.11% fall in dollar‐denominated stock market indices of the affected countries. This event is also accompanied by a statistically significant increase in risk, as measured by the standard deviati…
Linguistics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · African history and culture analysis (1 works) · Allegiance (1 works) · Authoritarianism (1 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (1 works) · Combinatorics (1 works) · Corporate Finance and Governance (1 works) · Democracy (1 works)