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Characterization of investment in infrastructure in Colombia 12 Years of Analysis

open access: yesDerrotero, 2018
This research article seeks to confirm the effects of the relationship between the state investment in infrastructure and trade growth. A detailed research is made of the main investments made by the Colombian state in the different infrastructures that ...
Oscar Torres Yarzagaray   +3 more
doaj  

Qualitatively New Approach to Business Valuation and Company Value

open access: yesMathematics
The objective of this work is to develop a qualitative new approach to assessing business and company value. For this purpose, two of the three income approach methods, CAPM and WACC, are modified. When modifying CAPM, a new model, CAPM 2.0, was created,
Peter Brusov, Tatiana Filatova
doaj   +1 more source

Privatization, public investment, and capital income taxation [PDF]

open access: yes
The authors investigate the optimal boundary between the public and private production sectors. They use a model in which government and private production coexist -in which a range of production activities can be carried out by either the government or ...
Huizinga, Harry, Nielsen, Soren Bo
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TreeSpider: In‐Canopy Exploration With Tether‐Based Aerial Modular Arms

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A tethered drone with perching arms and a 360° ring enables unprecedented maneuverability within dense forest canopies. By dynamically adjusting tether length and decoupling pitch from the frame, it navigates between branches, senses multiple trees, and interacts physically with foliage.
Luca Romanello   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Government integrity and corporate investment efficiency

open access: yesChina Journal of Accounting Research, 2018
We explore the relation between government integrity and firms’ investment efficiency in the context of China’s deepening reforms and its strengthening the social credit system.
Jing Du, Wanfu Li, Bin Lin, Yu Wang
doaj   +1 more source

Governance and Domestic Investment in Africa

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Government and Economics, 2019
The study empirically examined the impact of governance on domestic investment in 16 African countries with a balanced panel data set, between the years 2002 and 2015. The study employed six unbundled governance indicators from the World Bank, World Governance Indicators and constructed three bundled governance indicators using the Principal Component ...
openaire   +6 more sources

Rent Seeking and Government Ownership of Firms: An Application to China’s Township-Village Enterprises. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Using its control of regulated inputs, a government agency extracts rents from a manager who undertakes an investment. Such government rent-seeking activity leads to a typical hold-up problem.
Che, Jiahua
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Liquid Crystalline Elastomers in Soft Robotics: Assessing Promise and Limitations

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are programmable soft materials that undergo large, anisotropic deformation in response to external stimuli. Their molecular alignment encodes directional actuation in a monolithic structure, making them long‐standing candidates for soft robotic systems.
Justin M. Speregen, Timothy J. White
wiley   +1 more source

When Does Government Debt Crowd Out Investment? [PDF]

open access: yes
We investigate the relationship between inequality and education funding in a model of probabilistic voting over public education spending where the private option is available. A change in inequality can have opposite effects at different income levels:
Nora Traum, Shu-Chun Yang
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The Archer-Shaw Social Security Plan: Laying the Groundwork for Another S&L Crisis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
The Social Security reform plan proposed by Reps. Bill Archer (R-Tex.) and Clay Shaw (R-Fla.), chairmen, respectively, of the House Ways and Means Committee and its Subcommittee on Social Security, is a compromise between a Clinton administration plan to
Andrew G. Biggs
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