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Scar on my heart: effects of unemployment experiences on coronary heart disease
Authors: Ardito Chiara , Leombruni Roberto , Mosca Michele , Giraudo Massimiliano , d’Errico Angelo 
Published: March 2017

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to study the impact of unemployment on coronary heart diseases (CHD) in Italy on a sample of male manual workers in the private sector.Design/methodology/approachThe authors investigate the association between CHD and different unemployment experiences (ever unemployed; short, mid and long cumulative unemployment), exploiting a large Italian administrative database on careers and health. The study design is based on the balancing of individuals' characteristics during a 12-year pre-treatment period; the measurement of unemployment occurrence during a seven-year treatment period; the observation of CHD occurrence during a five-year follow up. The workers characteristics and the probability of receiving the treatment are balanced by means of propensity score matching. Standard diagnostics on the balancing assumption are discussed and satisfied, while the robustness to violations of the unconfoundedness assumption is evaluated by a simulation-based sensitivity analysis.FindingsThe authors find a significant increase of CHD probability was found among workers who experience more than three years of unemployment (relative risks (RR)=1.91,p<0.1), and among those who exit unemployment starting a self-employment activity (RR=1.70,p<0.1). Using different selections of the study population, a clear pattern emerges: the healthier and more labour market attached are workers during pre-treatment, the greater is the negative impact of long-term unemployment on health (RR=2.79,p<0.01).Originality/valueThe very large representative sample (n=69,937) and the deep longitudinal dimension of the data (1985-2008) allowed the authors to minimize the risks of health selection and unemployment misclassification. Moreover, the adopted definition of unemployment corrected some undercoverage and misclassification issues that affect studies based on a purely administrative definition and that treat unemployment as a unique career event disregarding the duration of the experience.
The human factor in SCM
Authors: Schorsch Timm , Wallenburg Carl Marcus , Wieland Andreas 
Published: March 2017

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to advance supply chain management by describing the current state of behavioral supply chain management (BSCM) research and paving the way for future contributions by developing a meta-theory for this important field.Design/methodology/approachThe results are generated by applying the systematic literature review methodology and an iterative theory-building approach involving a panel of academics.FindingsThis review provides a comprehensive overview of the BSCM research landscape. Additionally, a meta-theory of BSCM is presented that encompasses all central elements of the research field and introduces the concept of emergence to the field of BSCM. Furthermore, five promising future research opportunities are formulated.Research limitations/implicationsThe critical discussions and the formulated research opportunities will help scholars in positioning their research to enhance its contribution.Practical implicationsResults from this research indicate that supply chain decisions benefit from explicit consideration for cognitive and social phenomena.Originality/valueThis review is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of the field of BSCM research and facilitates BSCM in advancing further.
Country of origin effects on brand image, brand evaluation, and purchase intention
Authors: Kim Namhoon , Chun Eunha , Ko Eunju 
Published: March 2017

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyze how national stereotype, country of origin (COO), and fashion brand’s images influence consumers’ brand evaluations and purchase intentions regarding fashion collections. Korea (Seoul) and overseas (New York and Paris) collections are compared and analyzed.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conduct a structural equation modeling and multi-group analysis using data collected from Seoul, New York, and Paris.FindingsConsumers make higher brand evaluations and ultimately have stronger purchase intentions toward fashion collections from countries that have stronger COO and fashion brand images. In the context of fashion collections, COO image is greatly influenced by a nation’s political economic and cultural artistic images. In addition, comparing the domestic Seoul fashion collection with New York and Paris collections reveals that a national stereotype images, COO images of fashion collection, and fashion brand’s images cause different brand evaluation and purchase intention.Originality/valueThe overarching value of the study is that it expands COO research, which has been limited to actual products. Also, the results provide a basic foundation for establishing marketing strategy based on COO image as a way to enhance the development and image of fashion collection.
The extent of voluntary corporate disclosure in the Egyptian Stock Exchange
Authors: Kamel Hany , Awadallah Emad 
Published: March 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the current level of voluntary corporate disclosure in the Egyptian Stock Exchange. In addition, it explores the factors influencing the extensiveness of voluntary disclosure and examines the potential consequences of such disclosure in regards to the phenomenon of earnings management.

Design/methodology/approach
A relevant disclosure index to the Egyptian context was adopted to assess the level of voluntary disclosure in the 2010 annual reports of the most actively traded companies listed on the Egyptian Stock Exchange. The relationship between the extent of voluntary disclosure and each specific-related factor was examined using unranked and ranked OLS regression models. Meanwhile, a system of simultaneous equations was performed using a two-stage least squares regression model in order to investigate whether companies with higher levels of voluntary disclosure exhibit lower levels of earnings management practices.

Findings
The results indicate that the level of voluntary disclosure is positively responsive to specific corporate attributes, namely, the type of auditing firm and the two industries of Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals, and Chemicals. However, no significant indications were found that firm size, leverage, profitability and liquidity are important determinants of corporate disclosure. Also, the results show no evidence to support the prior anticipation that a higher level of voluntary disclosure reduces the ability of managers to make use of earnings management. On the contrary, it was found that leverage and the tendency of firms to avoid reporting declines in earnings are the main drivers of the phenomenon of earnings management in Egypt.

Practical implications
This paper has important implications for both domestic and overseas investors in Egypt as well as the regulatory authorities in the developing economies.

Originality/value
The main contribution of this paper is its focus on the extent of voluntary disclosure in a developing country such as Egypt, which has a high potential for economic growth in the near future. Besides, this paper is the first to examine the relationship between the level of voluntary disclosure and the phenomenon of earnings management in the Egyptian context.
Cash transfers to the elderly and its spillover effects
Authors: Oliveira Pedro Rodrigues de , Kassouf Ana Lúcia , Aquino Juliana Maria de 
Published: March 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to present evidences on the spillover effects of a cash transfer addressed to poor elders in Brazil.

Design/methodology/approach
Using the Brazilian National Households Survey (PNAD) the authors assess the effects of an income transfer to the elders on household composition and the labor supply of elders and co-residing relatives, under a regression discontinuity design.

Findings
The authors do not find strong evidences of changes in the household composition due to the program. However the authors found reductions in the elders’ labor force participation, indicating that the program allow elders to retire. Moreover, the transfer yields a decrease in the labor force participation of co-residents, depending on their age. The authors also observe decreases in child labor.

Originality/value
Along with the cash comes context-dependent effects, showing there are many latent aspects of these transfers yet to be uncovered.
South Africa’s economic response to monetary policy uncertainty
Authors: Balcilar Mehmet , Gupta Rangan , Jooste Charl 
Published: March 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to study the evolution of monetary policy uncertainty and its impact on the South African economy.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors use a sign restricted SVAR with an endogenous feedback of stochastic volatility to evaluate the sign and size of uncertainty shocks. The authors use a nonlinear DSGE model to gain deeper insights about the transmission mechanism of monetary policy uncertainty.

Findings
The authors show that monetary policy volatility is high and constant. Both inflation and interest rates decline in response to uncertainty. Output rebounds quickly after a contemporaneous decrease. The DSGE model shows that the size of the uncertainty shock matters – high uncertainty can lead to a severe contraction in output, inflation and interest rates.

Research limitations/implications
The authors model only a few variables in the SVAR – thus missing perhaps other possible channels of shock transmission.

Practical implications
There is a lesson for monetary policy: monetary policy uncertainty, in isolation from general macroeconomic uncertainty, often creates unintended adverse consequences and can perpetuate a weak economic environment. The tasks of central bankers are incredibly difficult. Their models project output and inflation with relatively large uncertainty based on many shocks emanating from various sources. It matters how central bankers react to these expectations and how they communicate the underlying risks associated with setting interest rates.

Originality/value
This is the first study that looks into monetary policy uncertainty into South Africa using a stochastic volatility model and a nonlinear DSGE model. The results should be very useful for the Central Bank as it highlights how uncertainty, that they create, can have adverse economic consequences.
The political roots of health insurance benefit mandates
Authors: Bailey James , Webber Douglas 
Published: March 2017

Purpose
As of 2011, the average US state had 37 health insurance benefit mandates, laws requiring health insurance plans to cover a specific treatment, condition, provider, or person. This number is a massive increase from less than one mandate per state in 1965, and the topic takes on a new significance now, when the federal government is considering many new mandates as part of the “essential health benefits” required by the Affordable Care Act. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors use fixed effects estimation on 1996-2010 data to determine why some states pass more mandates than others.

Findings
The authors find that the political strength of health care providers is the strongest determinant of mandates.

Originality/value
A large body of literature has attempted to evaluate the effect of mandates on health, health insurance, and the labor market. However, previous papers did not consider the political processes behind the passage of mandates. In fact, when they estimate the laws’ effect, almost all papers on the subject assume that mandates are passed at random. The paper opens the way to estimating the causal effect of mandates on health insurance and the labor market using an instrumental variables strategy that incorporates political information about why mandates get passed.
The bridge between macro and micro banking regulation
Authors: De Moraes Claudio Oliveira , de Mendonça Helder Ferreira 
Published: March 2017

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to discuss more efficient mechanisms of regulation in the financial system.Design/methodology/approachThe authors developed a theoretical two-period model of financial flows (FFs) that considers households, banks, and a social planner.FindingsIt is important to highlight that different from other studies that do not distinguish between financial crisis and financial instability, the authors assume financial instability does not mean crisis, but represents a deviation in the behavior of the aggregate financial intermediation and in the financial operations of each bank from the equilibrium.Practical implicationsThe practical implication of the model is the proposition of an efficient policy for financial stability based on forward-looking financial regulations.Social implicationsAn important result is that bank failures occur when banks do not maintain sufficient resources to support the liquidity constraint from the interbank market. Another result is that the central bank reacts, via exchange of reserves with the market, to financial instability. This behavior on the part of the central bank is inefficient because the banks will assume that in the case of failure they will be “saved;” thus it creates an adverse incentive (moral hazard) that can amplify the risk over the entire financial system.Originality/valueThe originality of the model is the proposition of an efficient policy for financial stability based on a forward-looking financial regulation. In this strategy the regulator acts in advance (ex ante) to minimize the mismatch of FFs in relation to the flow balance. This manner of acting is a counterpoint to the financial regulation based on capital requirement.
Identifying risks and mitigation strategies in private sector participation (PSP) in power generation projects in Ghana
Authors: Ameyaw Collins , Alfen Hans Wilhelm 
Published: March 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to identify the risks associated with private sector participation (PSP) in power generation (PG) projects, how they were allocated and the strategies used to mitigate their likely adverse effects.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper adopts case study research method and cross-case analyses to unearth the key risks and the contractual instruments used to manage them.

Findings
The paper identified 30 risk factors associated with four major private sector PG projects in Ghana. The allocation and mitigation strategies of these risks are also reported.

Originality/value
This is the first study to create a risk register of PSP PG projects. Private investors and government have been provided with a comprehensive list of risks associated with PG infrastructure. Would-be investors have also been armed with some potential risk management strategies for proper project structuring.
Ambidexterity drivers of value-creation and appropriation in business models
Authors: Pal Rudrajeet , Aneja Arun Pal 
Published: March 2017

PurposeThis paper aims to investigate how different trajectories can be detected and classified in business models (BMs) at the level of their underlying product development value-structure (value-creation and appropriation), and what are the drivers. Such BMs are run by multinational firms to accommodate various technologies and innovations; however, this is stressful because of inherent incompatibilities and conflicts.Design/methodology/approachAn explorative study of six product cases from Du Pont’s Textiles Fiber Division (DTFD), namely, nylon yarns, knits and wovens, DTFD blockbusters, Coolmax®, MicroMattique™, filling materials and Supriva™, is conducted.FindingsIn value-creation, technology push or market pull yields resultant technology-forward or market-back trajectories. For value appropriation, new growth opportunities or continuous market expectations lead to breakthrough or continuous innovations. Consistent and inconsistent combinations of these trajectories yield four differential drivers: technological breakthrough, market-back technology, continuous technology and continuous market-back. This is supported by relevant supply chain strategies, either focused through joint ventures and licensees for commodities or vertically integrated for specialty products.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper adds to the analysis of ambidexterity in the value structure of BMs along constituent value-creation and appropriation, thus providing a logical lens to understand various complementarities that exist in terms of opposing technology trajectories and product innovation repertoire.Practical implicationsThis study contributes to the knowledge of product innovation management in the textile industry, where both large-scale innovation and operational excellence are challenged over the past few decades.Originality/valueThe lessons learnt address the fundamental issue of higher value generation through configuration of multiple contrasting value-structure elements.
Relative age effects in the Movement Assessment Battery for Children‐2: age banding and scoring errors
Authors: Veldhuizen S. , Rivard L. , Cairney J. 
Published: March 2017

AbstractAimThe Movement Assessment Battery for Children‐2 (MABC‐2) uses age‐grouped scoring, which will result in relative motor functioning being overestimated for some children and underestimated for others. In this paper, we measure these errors and discuss their consequences.MethodWe pool data from two validation studies to obtain a sample of 278 children assessed with the MABC‐2 (mean (SD) age: 5 years, 0 months (9.6 months); 142 female). We used regression to measure the association between standard score and relative age, and used these results to estimate misclassification rates at the MABC‐2's recommended thresholds.ResultsMovement Assessment Battery for Children‐2 scores were distributed as expected (mean (SD) = 10.4 (2.8)). We estimated that the standard score varied by 2.76 units (0.92 SDs) per year of relative age. Depending on threshold and age bandwidth, this implies overall misclassification rates from 9% to 23%.InterpretationRelative age differences in MABC‐2 scores led to substantial systematic error for young children. These errors can affect MABC‐2 validity, longitudinal stability and agreement with other tools, which may reduce the appropriateness of care offered to children. Scoring approaches that may reduce or eliminate these errors are outlined.
Simul What? Toward a Grace for the Fearful
Authors: Hughes Krista E. 
Published: March 2017

AbstractThe doctrines of forensic justification and simul iustus et peccator assume a primarily moral theo‐cosmology. However, the former constricts the excessiveness of divine grace, while the latter fails to adequately capture the fullness of the human condition. Freeing divine grace and theological anthropology from the moral requires a shift in emphasis toward suffering and an acknowledgment that a deep root of sin is creaturely vulnerability. In this case, the incurved self might symbolize the fearful, pulling goods toward the self for protection. While accountability for sin remains important, the first response to the fearful, who act from a sense of deep vulnerability, is compassion rather than judgment. In this way grace attends to but ultimately exceeds the moral.
The Perpetuation of Regime Security in Gulf Cooperation Council States: A Multi‐Lens Approach
Authors: Evren Tok M. , McSparren Jason J. , Olender Michael 
Published: March 2017

AbstractGulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states have been engaging in diversification efforts, yet the types of efforts suggest that the primary interest is regime security. Regional foreign policy is complex; hence we propose a multi‐lens approach to analyze overlapping and complementary political, economic, and social forces. The international political economy of hydrocarbons demonstrates the similarities among GCC states, regional dynamics illustrate interstate relations and similar patterns, while economic diversification suggests individual state trajectories and comparative and competitive patterns. By outlining the contemporary context for GCC states, we argue that low oil prices, regional dependence on hydrocarbons, and trends in economic diversification efforts signal GCC states' preference to reinforce their rentier systems with alternative state revenue streams. GCC states' diversification into new markets and sectors and use of state‐owned enterprises in microcompetitions indicate a new search for alternative revenue streams and prestige, which in turn are used to assure the perpetuation of regime security. This finding sets trajectories and implications for the region, specifically economic stagnation and supplementary diversification processes.
Overview of iron metabolism in health and disease
Authors: Dev Som , Babitt Jodie L. 
Published: March 2017

AbstractIron is an essential element for numerous fundamental biologic processes, but excess iron is toxic. Abnormalities in systemic iron balance are common in patients with chronic kidney disease and iron administration is a mainstay of anemia management in many patients. This review provides an overview of the essential role of iron in biology, the regulation of systemic and cellular iron homeostasis, how imbalances in iron homeostasis contribute to disease, and the implications for chronic kidney disease patients.
Intracoronary allogeneic cardiosphere‐derived stem cells are safe for use in dogs with dilated cardiomyopathy
Authors: Hensley Michael Taylor , Tang Junnan , Woodruff Kathleen , Defrancesco Teresa , Tou Sandra , Williams Christina M. , Breen Mathew , Meurs Kathryn , Keene Bruce , Cheng Ke 
Published: March 2017

AbstractCardiosphere‐derived cells (CDCs) have been shown to reduce scar size and increase viable myocardium in human patients with mild/moderate myocardial infarction. Studies in rodent models suggest that CDC therapy may confer therapeutic benefits in patients with non‐ischaemic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). We sought to determine the safety and efficacy of allogeneic CDC in a large animal (canine) model of spontaneous DCM. Canine CDCs (cCDCs) were grown from a donor dog heart. Similar to human CDCs, cCDCs express CD105 and are slightly positive for c‐kit and CD90. Thirty million of allogeneic cCDCs was infused into the coronary vessels of Doberman pinscher dogs with spontaneous DCM. Adverse events were closely monitored, and cardiac functions were measured by echocardiography. No adverse events occurred during and after cell infusion. Histology on dog hearts (after natural death) revealed no sign of immune rejection from the transplanted cells.
Does high relatedness promote cheater‐free multicellularity in synthetic lifecycles?
Authors: Inglis R. F. , Ryu E. , Asikhia O. , Strassmann J. E. , Queller D. C. 
Published: March 2017

AbstractThe evolution of multicellularity is one of the key transitions in evolution and requires extreme levels of cooperation between cells. However, even when cells are genetically identical, noncooperative cheating mutants can arise that cause a breakdown in cooperation. How then, do multicellular organisms maintain cooperation between cells? A number of mechanisms that increase relatedness amongst cooperative cells have been implicated in the maintenance of cooperative multicellularity including single‐cell bottlenecks and kin recognition. In this study, we explore how relatively simple biological processes such as growth and dispersal can act to increase relatedness and promote multicellular cooperation. Using experimental populations of pseudo‐organisms, we found that manipulating growth and dispersal of clones of a social amoeba to create high levels of relatedness was sufficient to prevent the spread of cheating mutants. By contrast, cheaters were able to spread under low‐relatedness conditions. Most surprisingly, we saw the largest increase in cheating mutants under an experimental treatment that should create intermediate levels of relatedness. This is because one of the factors raising relatedness, structured growth, also causes high vulnerability to growth rate cheaters.