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Success and failure in foreign policy: Comparing Bob Hawke and Kevin Rudd's regional order‐building initiatives

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Remarkably little is known about what factors drive success or failure in foreign policy. In part, this is because there is little fundamental agreement on what constitutes success or failure in this domain in the first place. This article engages with these shortcomings by comparing two similar regional order‐building initiatives overseen by ...
Benjamin Day
wiley   +1 more source

The Agency Costs of Side‐by‐side Management: Evidence from the Hedge Fund and Private Equity Industry

open access: yesBritish Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the impact of the simultaneous management of private equity on hedge fund performance. We derive theoretical predictions based on bounded rationality theory and agency theory. We first examine the firm characteristics driving the side‐by‐side decision.
Hyung‐Kyu Choi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Social Dimension to the Consumer Bankruptcy Decision [PDF]

open access: yes
Personally knowing someone who has been bankrupt substantially increases the likelihood of an individual reporting they would consider filing for bankruptcy.
John Gathergood
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Mitigating Bifurcation Bias in Family Firms: The Role of Human Resource Augmentation and External Governance Mechanisms

open access: yesBritish Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract The transaction cost theory of family firms posits that bifurcation bias (BB) – the preferential treatment of family assets regardless of the actual value they bring to the business – leads to inefficiency in decision‐making and performance. Our study examines empirically three mechanisms that, according to extant literature, may help family ...
Paloma Almodóvar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Insolvency laws around the world - a statistical analysis and rules for their design [PDF]

open access: yes
Insolvenzrecht, Welt, Konkurs, Bankruptcy law, World ...
Leora Klapper, Stijn Claessens
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Broke and Broken: The Crises Facing Local Government in England

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 199-205, January/March 2025.
Abstract English local government faces a perilous position owing to insufficient funding, structural issues and capacity challenges. Fourteen years of austerity have significantly reduced council budgets, while increased demand for services—particularly adult social care—has strained resources.
David Jeffery
wiley   +1 more source

The Canary Down the Coalmine: Dagenham, London and Labour Politics

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The history of Dagenham offers unique insights into both the changing composition of the working class and the forces that have reshaped domestic politics throughout the last 100 years, particularly the politics of the British labour movement.
Jon Cruddas
wiley   +1 more source

Personal-bankruptcy cycles [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper estimates the dynamics of the personal-bankruptcy rate over the business cycle by exploiting large cross-state variation. We find that bankruptcy rates are significantly higher than normal during a recession and rise as a recession persists ...
Garrett, Thomas A., Wall, Howard J.
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A Skeptic’s Case for Sovereign Bankruptcy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This essay describes fundamental flaws in the sovereign debt restructuring regime, but questions the prevailing arguments for sovereign bankruptcy. The author concludes that efficient debt outcomes may well come about without bankruptcy, but that a ...
Gelpern, Anna
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