Do Karst Rivers "deserve" their own biotic index? A ten years study on macrozoobenthos in Croatia

Summary: The article suggests improvements to address the issue of under-enforcement in horizontal merger policy, such as rolling back the increase in the HHI red zone thresholds, mandating anticompetitive presumptions, closer analysis of common ownership by financial funds, and expanded analysis of potential competition mergers.

Summary: This study examines the sales data from a local food market in Wooster, Ohio over the past ten years and reveals interesting trends including seasonal fluctuations in sales, an increase in takeaway food sales over time, and higher spending by co-op members. These findings provide useful insights for local food scholars, practitioners, and policy advocates.

Summary: This research explores the perceived usefulness of audited social information in making economic decisions, based on the viewpoints of Tunisian financial analysts and bankers. The authors conducted a qualitative study using twelve semi-structured interviews, with seven conducted among financial analysts and five among bankers. The findings reveal that both financial analysts and bankers paid little attention to audited social information when making investment or credit decisions. The perceived low usefulness of social audit is influenced by various factors such as political, economic, regulatory, educational, cultural, and cognitive factors.