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Fair Trade in Sustainable Development. The Potential for Fair Trade Market Growth in Poland
Amfiteatru Economic, 2015 The paper presents the concept of Fair Trade, which is considered an alternative to conventional trade, and becomes increasingly popular in the Western countries.
Grażyna Śmigielska +2 more
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Have Business Cycles Become More Synchronous After NAFTA?
American Business Review, 2021 Trade agreements do not necessitate business cycle comovement. Focusing on NAFTA, we investigate whether business cycles in Canada, Mexico, and the US have become more synchronous after the landmark trade agreement came into effect in 1994.
Puneet Vatsa
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NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 2009 This paper investigates a real-business-cycle economy that features dispersed information about the underlying aggregate productivity shocks, taste shocks, and - potentially - shocks to monopoly power. We show how the dispersion of information can (i) contribute to significant inertia in the response of macroeconomic outcomes to such shocks; (ii ...
Angeletos, Marios, La'O, Jennifer
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Environmental Synthesis Radar (ESR) evaluates the environmental impact of (early‐stage) multi‐step chemical syntheses, providing a holistic view by using 18 midpoint impact categories. Unlike conventional life‐cycle assessment (LCA) approaches, ESR reveals three complementary metrics: overall impact Vtotal, environmental hotspots VEF, and critical ...
Laura Plein +8 more
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Durability of Soft Pneumatic Actuators: A Review and Benchmarking Protocol
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Lack of durability is a key challenge hindering the broad scale adoption of soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) in automation industries. This review provides a comprehensive overview of existing research on SPA durability, introduces a standardized durability benchmarking protocol to consolidate the testing of SPAs, and outlines promising directions for ...
Dickson Chiu Yu Wong +2 more
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Business Cycles in a Two-Sided Altruism Model
Mathematics, 2021 This study demonstrates that business cycles with complex periodic fluctuations may arise in an overlapping generations model with two-sided altruism.
Hiroshi Fujiu
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Continuum Robots in Surgery: From Engineering Design to Clinical Practice
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.The hyper‐redundant nature of continuum robot structures enables near‐infinite degrees of freedom leading to immense potential for medical applications. This review provides a historical background of continuum robots and novel ideas shaping their progress to current structural design, sensing technology, modeling techniques, and control methods.
Griffin Smith +6 more
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Entrepreneurship and the Business Cycle [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 We find new empirical regularities in the business cycle in a cross-country panel of 22 OECD countries for the period 1972-2007; entrepreneurship Granger-causes the cycles of the world economy. Furthermore, entrepreneurial activity is affected by national unemployment levels. We discuss possible causes and implications of these findings.
P.D. Koellinger, A.R. Thurik
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Black Hole Quencher‐Enhanced Plasmonic Photothermal Conversion
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Researchers have developed a universal method to boost plasmonic photothermal conversion by attaching black hole quencher (BHQ) molecules to matched metal nanostructures. This hybrid approach increases efficiency by roughly threefold, reaching up to 69.1% in the near‐infrared‐II window.
Ruiyuan Zhang +3 more
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