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Revealing Intrinsic Functionalization, Structure, and Photo‐Thermal Oxidation in Hexagonal Antimonene

Small, EarlyView.
Cross‐sectional electron microscopy reveals that antimonene hexagons exhibited inner defects and protective organic functionalization against oxidation. Temperature and power‐dependent Raman spectroscopy on varying thicknesses of FLA hexagons show that thinner flakes (<20 nm) exhibited a blueshift and intensity decrease, contrasting with the redshift ...
Marta Alcaraz, Michael Fickert, Christian Dolle, Mahesh Eledath Changarath, Juan F. Sánchez‐Royo, Yolita M. Eggeler, Gonzalo Abellán   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Banking on Sustainable Innovation: A Comparative Analysis of Institutional and Regulatory Frameworks for SME Finance in the EU and African Union

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how legal and institutional frameworks influence bank financing for sustainable innovation among SMEs in the European Union (EU) and African Union (AU). Using institutional theory, it analyzes how coercive, normative, and mimetic pressures interact across international, regional, and domestic levels to shape green lending ...
Priscilla Akua Vitoh
wiley   +1 more source

Is Technological Heterogeneity the Key to Sustainable Coffee Production Efficiency?: A Latent Class Frontier Analysis in the Traditional Coffee Region of Colombia

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Coffee producers deal with uncertainty due to high volatility in coffee prices. To navigate these challenges, producers must balance the tradeoff between higher yield and better quality utilising heterogeneous technologies, such as intensive production methods and environmental management practices.
Orlando Rodríguez, Maria Vrachioli, Johannes Sauer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Between Sustainable Development, Financialisation and Sovereign Debt Crisis: The Case of Blue Finance as Yet Another Iteration of the Washington Consensus

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As far as international economic law (IEL) is concerned, the ‘Washington Consensus’ generally refers to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s development finance policies and tools. It covers their application to their clients and borrowers with the support of Western governments. This acceptation is of particular interest
Leïla Choukroune
wiley   +1 more source

Diseño de un indicador adelantado para la actividad económica de Costa Rica

Economía y Sociedad, 2014
Este documento presenta los resultados de la estimación de tres indicadores adelantados de los puntos de giro de la actividad económica en Costa Rica.
Carlos Chaverri Morales, Diana Van Patten Rivera   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

EXPERIENCIAS EN POLÍTICA MONETARIA: LECCIONES PARA COSTA RICA

Economía y Sociedad, 1998
La conducción de la política monetaria ha evolucionado junto con el desarrollo de los diferentes enfoques teóricos macroeconómicos y las enseñanzas que se han derivado de la evidencia empírica.
Marlene Villanueva Sánchez, Lorely Villalobos Moreno, Norberto Zúñiga Fallas   +2 more
doaj  

Estimating risk aversion, Risk-Neutral and Real-World Densities using Brazilian Real currency options

Economia Aplicada, 2012
This paper uses the Liu et al. (2007) approach to estimate the optionimplied Risk-Neutral Densities (RND), real-world density (RWD), and relative risk aversion from the Brazilian Real/US Dollar exchange rate distribution. Our empirical application uses a
José Fajardo, José Renato Haas Ornelas, Aquiles Rocha de Farias   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Audit Committee Networks and Audit Fees: A European Analysis

Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the association between audit committee member networks and audit fees in a sample of 225 publicly traded firms from eight European countries between 2005 and 2020. Using social network analysis, we find that director interconnections—established through overlapping board memberships—are associated with audit fees.
Ruth García‐Cobo, César Zarza Herranz, Félix J. López Iturriaga   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

VIABILIDAD Y CONVENIENCIA DE LA DOLARIZACIÓN PLENA EN COSTA RICA

Economía y Sociedad, 2000
El propósito de este artículo es plantear la naturaleza de un sistema de dolarización plena; sus principales diferencias con alternativas como la fijación cambiaria con emisión de moneda propia y la caja de conversión; las ventajas y desventajas del ...
Welmer Ramos González, William Vindas Garita, Eduardo Méndez Quesada   +2 more
doaj  

Spectral response of guava leaves under infestation by Costalimaita ferruginea (coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.
Coccinellidae (Coleoptera), Miridae (Hemiptera), Hemerobiidae (Neuroptera), Pentatomidae (Hemiptera), Anystidae (Acari), Erythraeidae (Acari) and spiders (Araneidae, Oxyopidae and Salticidae) fed on the invasive paropsine leaf beetles in Marlborough, New Zealand.
Souradji I. Bachirou, Pedro G. Peixoto, David L. Rosalen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source