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Comprehensive Community Initiatives: Addressing a 'Problem' in Local Governance or Creating One?
Crawshaw, Paul; Simpson, Donald - In: Sociological Research Online 7 (2002) 1
extent of the alleged 'problem' of fragmentation across the governance of local social and welfare services prior to the … the form of EAZs and HAZs, it is claimed that a continuing problem of fragmentation across local governance of social and … partnership. They are a response to an alleged prior fragmentation of service provision in welfare across sectors. Employing …
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Competition, knowledge, and local government
Stansel, Dean - In: The Review of Austrian Economics 25 (2012) 3, pp. 243-253
This paper applies the insights of Austrian economics to an important issue in local political economy. Basic economic theory holds that greater competition produces superior outcomes in private goods markets. The same should be true in the “markets” for the output of local government....
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Does Production Fragmentation Lower Exchange Rate Elasticity? Evidence from Mexico’s Trade Linkages - La frammentazione della produzione abbassa l’elasticità del tasso di cambio? E...
Ghosh, Amit - In: Economia Internazionale / International Economics 65 (2012) 4, pp. 531-551
A defining feature of globalization is the fragmentation of individual blocks of an integrated production process … industries characterized by fragmentation is further examined, yielding similar results. From a policy perspective, the results …
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Donor coordination and specialization: did the Paris Declaration make a difference?
Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes; Thiele, Rainer - In: Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv) 149 (2013) 3, pp. 537-563
rising importance of general budget support, have reduced the fragmentation of aid. Nevertheless, our results reveal that aid … fragmentation persisted after the Paris Declaration and coordination among donors has even weakened. Copyright Kiel Institute 2013 …
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Effects of retail market structure and production conditions on firm’s location selections of fragmented production process
Ishikawa, Toshiharu - In: Review of Regional Research 30 (2010) 2, pp. 91-103
Produzierende Unternehmen unterteilen ihre Produktionsprozesse zur Reduktion der Gesamtproduktionskosten in Abschnitte und verlagern jeden dieser Produktionsabschnitte an jenen Standort, der hierfür optimale Bedingungen bietet. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht unternehmerische...
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A corrected 3-D SPH method for breaking tsunami wave modelling
Xie, Jinsong; Nistor, Ioan; Murty, Tad - In: Natural Hazards 60 (2012) 1, pp. 81-100
particle approach which is capable of tracking the free surface of violent deformation with fragmentation in an easy and …
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Analysis of the governance architecture to regulate GHG emissions from international shipping
Hackmann, Bernd - In: International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law … 12 (2012) 1, pp. 85-103
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Does Inter-Market Competition Lead to Less Regulation?
Draus, Sarah - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010
This paper presents a model to analyze the consequences of competition in order-flow between a profit maximizing stock exchange and an alternative trading platform on the decisions concerning trading fees and listing requirements. Listing requirements, set by the exchange, provide public...
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Impact fragmentation of polyurethane and polypropylene cylinder
Kishimura, Hiroaki; Noguchi, Daisuke; Preechasupanya, … - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 392 (2013) 22, pp. 5574-5580
The impact fragmentation of a bulk polyurethane elastomer (PU) and polypropylene (PP) cylinder have been investigated …
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Scaling relations for diversity of languages
Gomes, M.A.F; Vasconcelos, G.L; Tsang, I.J; Tsang, I.R - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 271 (1999) 3, pp. 489-495
simulations of fragmentation dynamics where similar scalings appear. The language size distribution is also studied and shown to …
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