Results 61 to 70 of about 55,857 (252)

Multimodal Strategy for Efficient Semi‐Transparent Perovskite Solar Cells and Modules with Record Indoor Performance

Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
A multimodal strategy creates efficient semi‐transparent perovskite solar cells with a record 4.29% light utilization efficiency and 22.41% indoor performance. This approach enables the first scalable 30 x 30 cm2 semi‐transparent solar module, highlighting its potential for building‐integrated and indoor photovoltaics.
Siming Huang, Shanyue Hou, Yuting Wang, Yinheng Ren, Yujie Wo, Jingdong Xu, Jinzhao Qin, Galyam Sanfo, Zahra Albu, Kai Qiu, Himal Muwanwella, Iona Hill, Yuelong Huang, Rebecca L. Milot, Xiang Liu, Muhammad Tariq Sajjad, Mojtaba Abdi‐Jalebi   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reforming the European Central Bank [PDF]

, 2018
In the early 1990s, the independence of central banks became a pillar of a new model of central banking oriented toward price stability. These changes have been part of a new paradigm stemming from theoretical literature on monetary policy of the mid-1980s (see Chap. 2).
Blot, Christophe, Hubert, Paul, Labondance, Fabien   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Beyond the Ban—Shedding Light on Smallholders' Price Vulnerability in Indonesia's Palm Oil Industry

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Indonesian government imposed a palm oil export ban in April 2022 to address rising cooking oil prices. This study explores oil palm smallholders' vulnerability to the policy using descriptive statistics, Lasso, and post‐Lasso OLS regressions.
Charlotte‐Elena Reich, Tim Ölkers, Vanessa Bonke, Oliver Musshoff   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

(Un)sustainability in a Monetary Union: Main Factors in the Escudo Zone Monetary Union (1963-71)

Essays in Economic and Business History, 2023
An extensive literature praises economic integration and monetary unions as powerful means for economic convergence between, and the growth of, nations.
Maria Eugénia Mata, Mário João Salvador Roldão   +1 more
doaj  

Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes, Amanda M. Countryman, Dustin L. Pendell   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Forecasting Euro Area Inflation Using Single-Equation and Multivariate VAR–Models

Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia, 2017
Forecasting inflation is of key relevance for central banks, not least because the objective of low and stable inflation is embodied in most central banks’ mandates and the monetary policy transmission mechanism is well known to be subject to long and ...
Gerdesmeier Dieter, Roffia Barbara, Reimers Hans-Eggert   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Temperature and Farm Labor in Nigeria

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We estimate the impact of temperature shocks on the composition of farm labor in rural Nigeria using a nationally representative household panel survey. Leveraging plausibly exogenous year‐to‐year variation in growing season temperatures, we find that warmer temperatures significantly alter farm labor composition, prompting a substantial shift
Andu Berha
wiley   +1 more source

Predicting pharmaceutical prices. Advances based on purchase-level data and machine learning

BMC Public Health
Background Increased costs in the health sector have put considerable strain on the public budgets allocated to pharmaceutical purchases. Faced with such pressures amplified by financial crises and pandemics, national purchasing authorities are presented
Mihály Fazekas, Zdravko Veljanov, Alexandre Borges de Oliveira   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Farmers' Financial Literacy—Scale Development and Linkages to Accounting Practices and Financial Outcomes

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial literacy (FL) of Swedish farmers, its linkages to farmer characteristics, management accounting practices and farm outcomes by surveying Swedish Farm Accountancy Data Network farmers. Using item response theory, we expand the existing FL measurement specifically to the farming context, assess measurement ...
Uliana Gottlieb, Helena Hansson
wiley   +1 more source

The European Central Bank

This chapter explores how the European Central Bank (ECB) responded to the 2008 global financial crisis and the 2020 COVID-19 crisis. Akin to what the US Federal Reserve did, the ECB reacted to both the 2008 and 2020 crises by increasing liquidity and loosening monetary policy, including through the adoption of controversial quantitative easing ...
Ian Bond, Dick Leonard, Robert Taylor
  +4 more sources