On traits matching and the modular organization of food web and occurrence networks
Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.What mechanisms shape ecological networks? In Paraná River piscivores, species traits and abundance scaling promote modular structures. Our findings reveal how communities self‐organize and highlight the conditions needed to sustain them. Abstract Modularity and nestedness have been observed recurrently across different ecological networks, including ...
Dalmiro Borzone Mas +5 more
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The Simple Analytics of Price Signaling Quality [PDF]
We present a diagrammatic and step-by-step analysis of price signaling quality. Because quality is a continuum on the real positive line, out-of-equilibrium beliefs need not be specified, i.e., every positive price is a positive outcome in equilibrium ...
Leonard J. Mirman, Marc Santugini
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Urban Water Demand: Income and Price Elasticities
Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We use bimonthly water consumption data from 580,000 households in the metropolitan region of Western Australia over the period 2015–2020 to analyse urban residential water demand. A generalised two‐stage least squares (G2SLS) approach is used to estimate water consumption as a function of price, household income, weather variables, property ...
Alemken Jegnie +3 more
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Marketization of data elements drives the cultivation of competitive advantages in export products-Based on an export technology complexity perspective. [PDF]
PLoS OneLin K, Wang X.
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Externalities, Monopoly and the Objective Function of the Firm [PDF]
This paper provides a theory of general equilibrium with externalities and/or monopoly. We assume that the firm's decisions are based on the preferences of shareholders and/or other stakeholders.
David Kelsey, Frank Milne
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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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The grey market for alcohol on social media in Sweden. [PDF]
Nordisk Alkohol NarkWaldner O +4 more
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Pricing and welfare implications of payment card network competition [PDF]
This paper examines how competition among payment card networks three-party scheme networks and four-party scheme networks affects pricing as well as the welfare of various parties.
Fumiko Hayashi
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Vertical Integration in the Presence of Upstream Competition [PDF]
We analyse vertical integration when there is upstream competition and compare outcomes to the case where upstream assets are owned by a single agent (i.e., upstream monopoly). In so doing, we make two contributions to the modelling of strategic vertical
Catherine de Fontenay, Joshua Gans
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Legalization dilemma and solution of China's professional sports league governance. [PDF]
Front Sports Act LivingWang Q, Zhang Z, Han G.
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