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Does financial integration drive export diversification? Evidence from a cross-country analysis
Authors: Jangam Bhushan Praveen , Akram Vaseem 
Published: April 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the nexus between financial integration and export diversification.Design/methodology/approachThe authors consider 96 economies spanning over the period 1995-2014. To provide broader insights, the authors categorize 96 economies into developed, developing, high and low diversified panels. Both volume and equity-based measures of financial integration are used. The generalized method of moments (GMM) method is used to analyze the link between financial integration and export diversification.FindingsThe results derived from GMM indicate that financial integration is a vital factor of export diversification. Further, the findings reveal similar conclusions for developed, developing, high and low diversified panels.Research limitations/implicationsThe outcome of this study suggests that promoting the financial integration of markets by lowering the restrictions on capital inflows helps countries to lower the risk and diversify their exports.Originality/valueThough there exists enormous literature on export diversification, the nexus between financial integration and export diversification is limited. The present study bridges this research gap.
The efficiency analysis of world top container ports using two-stage uncertainty DEA model and FCM
Authors: Pham Thi Quynh Mai , Park Gyei Kark , Choi Kyoung-Hoon 
Published: April 2020

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to present an integrated model to measure the operational efficiency of the top 40 container ports in the world for a five-year continuous period using a two-stage uncertainty data envelopment analysis (UDEA) combined with fuzzy C-means clustering method (FCM).

Design/methodology/approach
UDEA model is adopted for measuring the efficiency of container ports to overcome the limitation of the basic model, which is unable to handle uncertain data that are easy to meet in practice. FCM algorithm is implemented to find similar distribution efficiency scores of two stages and the cluster similar efficiency scores of container ports into various groups.

Findings
The combination of the two-stage UDEA model and the FCM algorithm provided a more comprehensive view when evaluating the performance of container ports. The UDEA results show that most of the container ports have reduced their profitability level in the second stage and most of the efficient container ports have turned into inefficient ones because of their small scale.

Originality/value
This paper proposes using the two-stage UDEA model to evaluate port efficiency based on two main aspects of productivity and profitability. Moreover, it combines DEA and FCM algorithms to offer a more comprehensive view when measuring the performance of container ports.
Company–customer conflicts and ethical decision-making of life insurance agents: the role of ethics institutionalization
Authors: Tseng Lu-Ming 
Published: April 2020

PurposeFor the financial service industry, company–customer conflict is a topic that deserves special attention. This study explores the impacts of ethics institutionalization on the life insurance agents' ethical decision-making under the company–customer conflicts.Design/methodology/approachTwo types of company–customer conflicts are studied. In one situation, selling the life insurance product is profitable to the life insurance company, but the product is unsuitable for the customer. In another situation, selling the life insurance product is unprofitable to the life insurance company, while the product will fully satisfy the customer's interests. The study selects Taiwan's full-time life insurance agents as a sample.FindingsThe main results show that implicit ethics institutionalization has a stronger influence on teleological evaluations and deontological evaluations. This study then finds that different types of company–customer conflicts would change the influences of teleological evaluations on ethical intentions and cause different influences of implicit ethics institutionalization on teleological evaluations and deontological evaluations.Originality/valueEthics institutionalization and company–customer conflicts are important issues in the literature. This is the first study to discuss the roles that ethics institutionalization and company–customer conflicts play in the ethical decision-making of life insurance agents.
IPO information acquisition and investor protection
Authors: Huang Fangliang , Sun Li , Chen Jing , Wu Chaopeng 
Published: April 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine investors’ intention and behavior concerningex anteinformation acquirement andex postclaims from the micro-level perspective with the deepening of the initial public offering (IPO) reform of China.Design/methodology/approachThe authors made surveys and collected 932 valid questionnaires from investors in China. The authors also conducted interviews with sophisticated investors, investment bankers and government regulators to obtain first-hand information. Based on the survey results, the authors make the empirical analysis.FindingsInvestors’ attention to the first-hand information of the IPO prospectuses is inadequate. Individuals rely more on second-hand information, while institutions conduct more surveys. The higher the institutional practitioners’ degree of education, the more surveys they make. Only 1/3 investors intend to seek judicial remedy when getting fraud information due to high litigation costs and proof collecting difficulties. The investors who read more about prospectuses in advance are more likely to seek judicial protection afterwards. Compared with investors who know less about government administrative protection measures, those who know more have a low probability to choose “not to seek judicial protection.”Originality/valueThe authors enrich the research studies of IPO information acquisition and investor protection by conducting surveys to get first-hand data. Previous literature mostly makes empirical tests by using proxy variables.
Management accountants’ role and coercive regulations: evidence from the Italian health-care sector
Authors: Oppi Chiara , Vagnoni Emidia 
Published: April 2020

Purpose
This paper aims to investigate the consequences of the coercive regulations for performance measurement and comparability that strengthened regional health authority’s control over organizations’ activities on management accountants’ relationship with clinician managers, who are the recipients of accounting information for decisional processes in health-care organizations. To achieve this aim, the research focuses on management accountants’ perception of their role and whether they perceive role conflict and role ambiguity.

Design/methodology/approach
A case study was undertaken in a public university hospital in the Emilia-Romagna region, Italy; 9 management accountants and 11 clinician managers were interviewed and secondary data analyzed.

Findings
Management accountants show low capabilities to support clinician managers’ decisional processes. Following the enactment of regulations, management accountants perform their role with a primary focus on functional responsibility. The focus on the provision of information to address regulations influenced management accountants’ capability to act as business partners in the organization. Because of the conflicting information needs from regulations and clinician managers, management accountants experience role conflict and ambiguity.

Research limitations/implications
The paper has implications for policymakers, underlining the consequences of strict regulations on management accountants’ role. It also emphasizes the importance of revising accounting techniques to satisfy both regional requirements and clinician managers’ needs for decision-making.

Originality/value
The article contributes to knowledge related to the role of management accountants in health care. It explores, in particular, the consequences of coercive regulations in health-care organizations, adding knowledge to a field that remains quite unexplored.
Using a distributed deep learning algorithm for analyzing big data in smart cities
Authors: Naoui Mohammed Anouar , Lejdel Brahim , Ayad Mouloud , Amamra Abdelfattah , kazar Okba 
Published: April 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to propose a distributed deep learning architecture for smart cities in big data systems.Design/methodology/approachWe have proposed an architectural multilayer to describe the distributed deep learning for smart cities in big data systems. The components of our system are Smart city layer, big data layer, and deep learning layer. The Smart city layer responsible for the question of Smart city components, its Internet of things, sensors and effectors, and its integration in the system, big data layer concerns data characteristics 10, and its distribution over the system. The deep learning layer is the model of our system. It is responsible for data analysis.FindingsWe apply our proposed architecture in a Smart environment and Smart energy. 10; In a Smart environment, we study the Toluene forecasting in Madrid Smart city. For Smart energy, we study wind energy foresting in Australia. Our proposed architecture can reduce the time of execution and improve the deep learning model, such as Long Term Short Memory10;.Research limitations/implicationsThis research needs the application of other deep learning models, such as convolution neuronal network and autoencoder.Practical implicationsFindings of the research will be helpful in Smart city architecture. It can provide a clear view into a Smart city, data storage, and data analysis. The 10; Toluene forecasting in a Smart environment can help the decision-maker to ensure environmental safety. The Smart energy of our proposed model can give a clear prediction of power generation.Originality/valueThe findings of this study are expected to contribute valuable information to decision-makers for a better understanding of the key to Smart city architecture. Its relation with data storage, processing, and data analysis.
1,25‐dihydroxyvitamin D3 prevents deleterious effects of erythromycin on mitochondrial function in rat heart isolated mitochondria
Authors: Mersa Amir , Atashbar Saman , Ahvar Negar , Salimi Ahmad 
Published: April 2020

AbstractErythromycin (ERY) is a risk factor for cardiotoxicity through the mitochondria pathway. In the current study, we tested the hypothesis that erythromycin could impair mitochondrial function and oxidative stress and 1,25‐dihydroxivitamin D3 (calcitriol) treatment could prevent these effects in rat heart isolated mitochondria. Rat heart mitochondria were isolated with mechanical lysis and differential centrifugation. Then isolated mitochondria were first pretreated with three different concentrations of 1,25‐dihydroxivitamin D3 (2.5, 5 and 10 µmol/L) for 5 minutes at 37°C, after which erythromycin (10 µmol/L) was added to promote deleterious effects on mitochondria. During 1 hour of incubation, using by flow cytometry and biochemical evaluations, the parameters of mitochondrial toxicity were evaluated, including: succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) activity, mitochondrial swelling, mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) collapse, reactive oxygen species (ROS) formation and lipid peroxidation (LP). The results showed that erythromycin (10 µmol/L) caused a significant change in mitochondrial function, ROS formation, mitochondrial swelling, MMP collapse, increasing lipid peroxidation and oxidative stress. 1,25‐dihydroxivitamin D3 (10 µmol/L) reverted the effect of erythromycin on the tested parameters . In this study, we showed that erythromycin impairs mitochondrial function and induces mitochondrial toxicity in rat heart isolated mitochondria, which were reverted by calcitriol. These findings suggest that 1,25‐dihydroxivitamin D3 may be a preventive/therapeutic strategy for cardiotoxicity complications caused by erythromycin.
Australian geography: The next 10 years (and beyond)?
Authors: Turton Stephen M , Maude Alaric M 
Published: April 2020

AbstractGeography: Shaping Australia's Future (2018) provides a ‘strategic plan’ for geography aligned with the national research priorities, as well other key areas where Australian geographers are addressing environmental and societal challenges. To provide context, we first describe the state of geography in Australian universities. We then articulate ways forward for strengthening Australian geography—both within the discipline and how we interact externally. We describe how geography may better contribute to policy agendas, capitalising on our unique perspectives of space, place and the environment, but also highlight how we might improve these contributions through a more unified approach across human and physical geography. Third, we discuss opportunities for geographers to build the reputation of the discipline and ways to advocate for its importance in the wider academy, school curricula and community. We conclude with some preliminary suggestions on how Australian geographers may better engage and contribute to the United Nations Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
The role of RORγt at maternal‐fetal interface during murine pregnancy
Authors: Li Yan , Lopez Gladys E. , Lindner Payton N. , Parrella Luke , Larson Mariah , Sun Yan , Stanic Aleksandar K. 
Published: April 2020

ProblemInnate lymphoid cells (ILCs, including NK cells) and their subsets are the most frequent lymphocytes at the maternal‐fetal interface (decidua). Recent recognition of extensive ILC subset diversity at mucosal sites and the possible role they might play at different stages of pregnancy poses questions about their composition and lineage stability. Namely, RORγt‐dependent ILC3s have been recognized as a key cellular mediator of tissue organization in the gut and secondary lymphoid organs, prompting examination of their distribution and role in decidua during pregnancy.Method of studyWe employed highly polychromatic flow cytometry with conventional and machine learning‐aided analysis to map ILC subsets and dissected the role of canonical transcription factor RORγt using fate‐mapping animals and RORγt−/− animals.ResultsWe demonstrate a comprehensive immunome map of ILCs/NKs, revealing a dynamic interface even in the absence of antigenic or allogeneic challenge. Strikingly, we demonstrate plasticity of RORγt expression in decidual ILCs with across gestation. However, gross reproductive efficiency is not affected in RORγt−/− animals.ConclusionThese results indicated that RORγt+ ILCs are highly plastic at the maternal‐fetal interface, but dispensable for normal pregnancy, revealing a novel mechanism of transcriptional immunoregulation in pregnancy.
“The impulse is cartographic”: Counter‐Mapping Indonesia’s Resource Frontiers in the Context of Coloniality
Authors: Tilley Lisa 
Published: April 2020

AbstractResource frontiers continue to expand globally across Indigenous lands as states and corporations enact forms of expropriation redolent of the formal colonial era for the sake of extraction. In the face of this expansion, the burden remains largely on frontline communities to defend their ecologies using the tools available to them. Across Indonesia’s resource frontiers, the “cartographic impulse” Edward Said once named to describe anticolonial struggles is apparent in the form of counter‐mapping, which seeks to secure adat (customary) rights and defend Indigenous lands against extractivist expansion. This article revisits this practice and argues that the counter‐map and its goals remain tenuous—mapping in its scalable form risks processing complex and multi‐dimensional ways of relating to land into two‐dimensional representations appropriate for a liberal property regime, while adat itself is a contingent and mutable legal goal. Ultimately, the article echoes emerging calls for the burden to be shifted away from frontline communities through the pursuit of just transitions to post‐extractivism. Pemburuan sumber daya ke wilayah‐wilayah baru yang masih kaya (resource frontiers) di tanah masyarakat adat semakin meluas secara global, seiring praktek‐praktek perampasan berbau kolonial yang dilakukan oleh negara dan korporasi demi tujuan ekstraksi. Berhadapan dengan ekspansi ini, masyarakat di gugus depanlah yang menanggung beban terbesar untuk mempertahankan lingkungan hidup mereka, dengan menggunakan sarana yang tersedia bagi mereka. Di wilayah‐wilayah baru ekstraksi sumber daya alam di Indonesia, apa yang pernah disebut Edward Said sebagai ‘cartographic impulse’ untuk menggambarkan perjuangan anti‐kolonial terlihat jelas dalam bentuk counter‐mapping, yang bertujuan untuk mempertahankan tanah‐tanah adat dari ekspansi ekstravistik. Artikel ini hendak meninjau kembali praktek counter‐mapping ini dan berargumen bahwa counter‐map dan tujuan‐tujuannya masih lemah– mapping dalam bentuk yang dapat diukur mengalami masalah dengan persoalan proses dan persoalan corak multidimensioanal dari hubungan dengan tanah dalam kaitan dengan representasi dua‐dimensi yang hanya cocok dengan rezim kepemilikan liberal; sementara adat sendiri adalah tujuan legal yang sifatnya kontingen dan terbuka terhadap perubahan. Pada akhirnya artikel ini ikut menyuarakan seruan yang banyak muncul, bahwa beban harus dialihkan dari masyarakat frontline melalui usaha untuk transisi‐transisi yang adil menuju post‐extractivism.
How does past behaviour stimulate consumers' intentions to repeat unethical behaviour? The roles of perceived risk and ethical beliefs
Authors: Zhao BaoChun , Rawwas Mohammed Yahya , Zeng ChengHao 
Published: April 2020

AbstractRepeated unethical behaviour by consumers is a serious challenge for participants in business transactions, including consumers, retailers, and those responsible for market supervision. Due to the inherent risk of such behaviours, we examine perceived risk to uncover the psychological mechanism by which consumers consider past behaviour (PAB) when deciding to repeat unethical behaviour. We divide perceived risk into two categories, material risk (MAR) and nonmaterial risk (NMR), based on two kinds of ethical evaluation and explore their mediating effects in the process through which PAB influences consumers' intentions to repeat unethical behaviour (CIRUB). We check the moderating effect of consumers' ethical beliefs on the relationship between PAB and CIRUB. We use survey data from four typical ethical scenarios to test the proposed structural relationships. Direct positive effects of PAB on consumers' intentions are observed in all four scenarios. NMR has stable, positive mediating effects in all scenarios. MAR is found to have negative mediating effects in two scenarios (switching price tags and using an expired coupon) and a positive effect in one scenario (copying software). However, no effect is observed in the benefiting from a cashier's mistake scenario. Finally, ethical beliefs are proven to positively moderate the relationship between PAB and consumers' intentions in the first two scenarios, but not the last two. This study also discusses the implications of the findings and offers suggestions for future research.
Comprehensive analysis of serum chromogranin A and neuron‐specific enolase levels in localized and castration‐resistant prostate cancer
Authors: Szarvas Tibor , Csizmarik Anita , Fazekas Tamás , Hüttl András , Nyirády Péter , Hadaschik Boris , Grünwald Viktor , Püllen Lukas , Jurányi Zsolt , Kocsis Zsuzsa , Shariat Shahrokh F. , Sevcenco Sabina , Maj‐Hes Agnieszka , Kramer Gero 
Published: April 2020

ObjectivesTo assess chromogranin A (CGA) and neuron‐specific enolase (NSE) levels and changes in these at different stages of prostatic adenocarcinoma (PCA).MethodsOverall, 1095 serum samples from 395 patients, divided into three treatment groups, were analysed; the radical prostatectomy (RP) cohort (n = 157) included patients with clinically localized PCA, while the docetaxel (DOC) and the abiraterone (ABI)/enzalutamide (ENZA) cohorts included 95 and 143 patients, respectively, with metastatic castration‐resistant prostate cancer. CGA, NSE and total PSA levels were measured using the KRYPTOR method.ResultsBaseline CGA and NSE levels were higher in castration‐resistant (DOC and ABI/ENZA cohorts) than in hormone‐naïve, clinically localized PCA (P < 0.001). High baseline CGA levels were independently associated with poor overall survival in both the DOC and the ABI/ENZA cohorts, with a stronger association in the ABI/ENZA cohort. In the ABI/ENZA cohort, a > 50% CGA increase at 3 months was associated with poor survival, especially in patients with high baseline CGA levels.ConclusionsThe two‐ to threefold higher neuroendocrine marker levels in castration‐resistant compared to hormone‐naïve PCA support the presence of neuroendocrine transdifferentiation under androgen deprivation therapy. Our results showed patients with high baseline CGA levels who experienced a further CGA increase during ABI and ENZA treatment had the poorest prognosis. Serum CGA levels could help in tailoring and monitoring therapy in advanced PCA.
Risk sharing and export performance with firm heterogeneity
Authors: Lee Seung Hoon , Lee Byongju 
Published: April 2020

AbstractWe investigate how market uncertainty affects the export performance of a firm through financial frictions. We first extend Melitz's (2003) heterogeneous firm trade model by incorporating demand shocks, linking the demand uncertainties to the financing costs of firms. In this extension, the default probability is endogenously determined by a firm's productivity and demand uncertainty. Hence, firms with higher productivity or lower market uncertainty are offered lower interest rates and thus show better export performance. As an application, we also show that a risk‐sharing mechanism, that pools default risk for a certain group of firms, lowers the default risk. This mechanism allows banks to charge lower interest rates to the member firms and therefore ultimately improves their export performance in both extensive and intensive margins. We find a real‐world example of such a mechanism from business groups in Korea. Using Korean firm‐level data, we show that the more diversified the business group, the greater the likelihood that its member firms export and the bigger their export revenues. We also show that our results are robust to alternative explanations for Korean business groups’ export competitiveness.
Labor issues and COVID‐19
Authors: Larue Bruno 
Published: April 2020

AbstractThe COVID‐19 pandemic has prompted Canada and several other countries to impose an economic shutdown to prevent a deadly public health crisis from becoming much deadlier. In the agriculture and food sector, several hundred thousand restaurant workers have lost their jobs. The rise in unemployment, the closing of restaurants and schools, and social distancing have triggered demand reductions for certain commodities and foods and demand increases for others, bringing along changes in demand for inputs including labor. Canadian employers of temporary foreign workers (TFWs) are facing delays and additional constraints in recruiting, but so have US and European employers of TFWs. Rising food security concerns are making protectionist trade policies popular. Domestic and foreign firms may export less and do more foreign direct investment, inducing trade in jobs.