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Stable isotope analysis reveals individual variations in feeding habits among wild Japanese macaques
Ecological Research, EarlyView.In this study, we conducted a dietary analysis using stable isotopes on the Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) group on Koshima Island, Japan. As a result, we clarified the variation in isotope ratios at the individual level, and indicated that this variation is affected by attributes such as sex or dominance‐subordinate relationships in this group ...
Kazuho Funakawa +2 more
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On the efficiency of monetary and fiscal policy in open economies [PDF]
This paper investigates the efficiency of monetary and fiscal policy in a two-country general equilibrium model with monopolistic competition and wage stickiness.
Chan Wang, Heng-fu Zou
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Hybrid governance and welfare standards for broiler chickens raised for human consumption
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the welfare standards that govern the lives of chickens raised for meat in Australia and the United Kingdom. While ‘meat chickens’ are subject to a wide range of welfare interventions, we focus on the development and implications of the ‘private’ standards which are the most significant determinants of meat chicken ...
Peter John Chen +2 more
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Does Competition Encourage Credit Provision? Evidence from African Trade Credit Relationships [PDF]
Previous work has claimed that monopoly power facilitates the provision of credit, since monopolists are better able to enforce payment. Here, we argue that if relationship-specific investments are required by borrowers to establish creditworthiness ...
Mayank Raturi, Raymond Fisman
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How do street‐level organisations adapt to a new policy framework? Evidence from a Swiss canton
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how street‐level organisations (SLO) respond to new legal framework conditions after regulatory reform. Organisational response to a changed legal framework is key to understand implementation resilience as established organisational practice may collide with new legal obligations.
Claudio Domenig, Fritz Sager
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Collaborating in future states—Contextual instability, paradigmatic remaking, and public policy
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract Collaboration is ubiquitous in public policy life, with its presence and profile determined by prevailing governance conditions. Commitments to globalisation and marketisation in the latter part of the 20th century marked the onset of an era defined by collaboration, between and across tiers and spheres of government, with non‐state actors ...
Helen Sullivan
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Honest Certification and the Threat of Capture [PDF]
This paper derives conditions under which reputation enables certifiers to resist capture. These conditions alone have strong implications for the industrial organization of certification markets: 1) Honest certification requires high prices that may ...
Strausz, Roland
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British Journal of Management, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates the link between subsidy policy for patenting overseas (SPPO) and the innovation quality of emerging economy firms, focusing on the role of international imprinting. Through the theoretical lenses of institutional logics and imprinting, we hypothesize that SPPO, which embodies a rigorous intellectual property (IP) logic,
Ming Lin +4 more
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Can Rivalry Increase Prices? [PDF]
Spatially differentiated duopolists set higher-than-monopoly prices at some distances. This phenomenon is shown to occur in any finite- dimensional space for a class of reservation prices that covers concavity and convexity in perceived distance from a ...
Christian Roessler
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Can Small Firms Innovate Away From Competition?
British Journal of Management, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper we test whether innovation allows entrepreneurs to navigate their way out of highly competitive markets into calmer waters where competitive pressures are reduced. In doing so, we establish three key findings: first, in line with the Schumpeterian creative destruction theory, our results document a decreasing marginal effect of ...
Marc Cowling +2 more
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