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THREAD* We continue featuring the top 10 most cited articles published in @RSeriesa in 2020

Day 3: today we featured articles ranked 4th & 5th on the topics of #shipping 🚢 & #slavery

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The first article is by Silverman: doi.org/10.1111/rssa.1…

*CONTEXT* Quantifying hidden populations such as victims of modern slavery is challenging; yet, needed to develop strategies leading to legislation, inc. the Modern Slavery Act 2015
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*AIM* Investigate the stability and robustness of various multiple‐systems‐estimate methods to measure modern slavery using Kosovo 🇽🇰as case study

*METHOD* Use of multiple‐systems‐estimate methods to develop a new Markov chain Monte Carlo #Bayesian approach
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*FINDINGS* the proposed approach offer robust and stable results of death toll due to conflict

*BONUS* Software & data sets are freely and publicly available! 😎
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The second article is by Theodossiou et al.: doi.org/10.1111/rssa.1…

*CONTEXT* Shipping freight rates are notoriously volatile 📉 and shipping investors are perceived to be risk loving
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*AIM* Explore the stochastic properties of freight rates and derives the analytical equations for their moments in downside and upside markets

*METHOD* Use of a two‐piece extension of the generalised error distribution to develop pricing equations across shipping segments
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*FINDINGS* Positive skewness premium exists suggesting that shipping investors are willing to accept lower expected returns for the opportunity to earn high pay‐offs in the future

Keep tuned 👀 - more TOMORROW! We are highlighting the top 3 articles!

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