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Alternative Policy Designs to Help Farmers Select Profitable Conservation Practices
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Voluntary private carbon initiatives (VPCIs) promote the implementation of agricultural conservation practices that mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) via financial incentives to participating farmers. Simultaneously, an array of public policies supports the adoption of conservation practices through technical and financial ...
Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn +1 more
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Do S&P's Corporate Ratings Reflect Credit Shocks? [PDF]
Credit Ratings; Validation; Rating ...
Elsas, Ralf, Sabine, Mielert
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Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.Multivariate analysis identified that up‐to‐7 out (p < 0.001), lymph node metastasis (p < 0.001), and non‐anatomical resection (p = 0.02) were independent predictors of cancer recurrence, while older age (p = 0.01), Child‐Pugh B (p < 0.001), up‐to‐7 out (p = 0.01), macrovascular invasion (p = 0.01), and lymph node metastasis (p < 0.001) were ...
Koichiro Haruki +9 more
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Addicted to Ratings: The Case for Reducing Governments’ Reliance on Credit Ratings [PDF]
Credit rating agencies have been blamed for their role in the recent financial crisis, notably for having assigned high ratings to complex financial instruments that yielded billions in losses to investors. As a consequence, a number of reforms have been
Philippe Bergevin
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.This study presents a multitask strategy for plastic cleanup with autonomous surface vehicles, combining exploration and cleaning phases. A two‐headed Deep Q‐Network shared by all agents is traineded via multiobjective reinforcement learning, producing a Pareto front of trade‐offs.
Dame Seck +4 more
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Reputation and competition: evidence from the credit rating industry [PDF]
The credit rating industry has historically been dominated by just two agencies, Moody’s and S&P, leading to longstanding legislative and regulatory calls for increased competition.
Bo Becker, Todd Milbourn
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The Determinants of Credit Ratings in the United Kingdom Insurance Industry [PDF]
, 2000 Executive Summary The Determinants of Credit Ratings in the United Kingdom Insurance Industry Academic researchers have devoted a considerable amount of attention to the activities of credit rating agencies over the past 20 years, focusing in ...
Adams, Mike +2 more
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A Standardized Framework for Elastomer Characterization in Soft Robotics
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.A unified framework addresses inconsistent elastomer property reporting which limits reproducibility and standardization in soft robotics. Systematic testing of ten elastomers (thermosetting, thermoplastic, and a covalent adaptable network) provides quasielastic mechanical properties, viscoelastic parameters, thermal stability, and processing ...
Ellen Roels +2 more
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Overdependence on Credit Ratings Was a Primary Cause of the Crisis [PDF]
The first part of the paper describes how over time credit rating agencies ceased to play the role of information intermediaries. Rating agencies did not provide information about the risk associated with the securitized instruments, but they simply ...
Frank Partnoy
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Trade Realignments and the Need for Integrated Modeling Research in Latin America's Agri‐Food Sector
Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Emiliano Lopez Barrera
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