Advanced Science, EarlyView.A stretchable 3D microelectrode array with microneedles (3D MN‐sMEA) enables stable, minimally destructive electrophysiological monitoring of 3D organoids. The wafer‐level stud‐bump bonding process facilitates high‐fidelity recordings of heart and cerebral organoids.
Eunyoung Jang +10 more
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Ending uncertainty: recapitalisation under European Central Bank supervision. Bruegel Policy Contribution 2013/18, 17 December 2013 [PDF]
, 2013 Estimates of the recapitalisation needs of the euro-area banking system vary between €50 and €600 billion. The range shows the considerable uncertainty about the quality of banks’ balance sheets and about the parameters of the forthcoming European ...
Merler, Silvia, Wolff, Guntram B.
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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková +4 more
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A look inside two central banks: the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve [PDF]
In 1998 the European Central Bank (ECB) became the world’s 173rd central bank. The Eurosystem, with its structure of national central banks and the ECB, is similar to the Federal Reserve System, with its District Banks and Board of Governors.
Patricia S. Pollard
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European Central Bank quantitative easing: the detailed manual. Bruegel Policy Contribution Issue 2015/02, March 2015 [PDF]
, 2015 • The European quantitative easing programme, the Public Sector Purchase Programme (PSPP), started on 9 March 2015 and will last at least until September 2016.
Leandro, Alvaro +2 more
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(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 +1 more
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Keeping Pace or Falling Behind? The Depth of Latin American Trade Agreements
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines whether Latin American countries are keeping pace with global trends in trade agreement depth or falling behind. Using 681 agreements (1970–2019), we develop the Depth Index of Trade Agreements (DITA) to weight provisions endogenously through factor analysis based on co‐occurrence patterns.
Raphael Gomes da Silva +2 more
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Inflation persistence in Central and Eastern European countries. Bruegel Working Paper 2013/04, 22 July 2013 [PDF]
, 2013 This paper studies inflation persistence with time-varying coefficient autoregressions for twelve central European countries,in comparison with the United States and the euro area.
Darvas, Zsolt, Varga, Balázs
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Predicting pharmaceutical prices. Advances based on purchase-level data and machine learning
BMC Public HealthBackground 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 +2 more
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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 +2 more
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