Intrinsic Business Cycles with Pro-Cyclical R&D [PDF]
Recent empirical work finds that R&D expenditures are quite procyclical, even for firms that are not redit-constrained during downturns. This has been taken as strong evidence against Schumpeterian-style theories of business cycles that emphasize the ...
Huw Lloyd-Ellis, Patrick Francois
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A conceptual framework for changes in Fund Management and Accountability relative to ESG issues [PDF]
, 2011 Major developments in socially responsible investment (SRI) and in environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues for fund managers (FMs) have occurred in the past decade.
Holland, J.
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia +4 more
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Competition Policy and Agribusiness in the Biden Administration
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Biden Administration pursued a set of ambitious competition policy initiatives in agriculture and agribusiness, primarily aimed at livestock and poultry supply chains, farm inputs, and food retailing. The initiatives included expanded antitrust enforcement; new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) contract regulations requiring poultry ...
James M. MacDonald
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The Risks to Investment Decisions: Can Financial Knowledge and Investor’s Experience be Moderate?
Studies in Business and EconomicsThis research is intended to determine the risk of investment-decisions moderated by investors’ knowledge and experience on the Indonesian Stock Exchange (IDX).
Hirdinis M.
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"Knowledge-Capital, International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment: A Sectoral Analysis" [PDF]
The knowledge-capital (KC) model of MNEs is now a widely adopted empirical approach to explaining the location and production decisions of global firms based on both horizontal and vertical motivations.
Keith E. Maskus +2 more
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A Review of Rail Research Relevant to the Case for Increased Rail Investment. [PDF]
, 1993 The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of rail transport research which has a bearing on the case of increased rail investment. The paper focuses on research which has been conducted on the demand for rail travel, both passenger and freight ...
Fowkes, A.S. +4 more
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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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Correction to: Reduction of chronic malnutrition for infants in Bogotá, Colombia
BMC Public Health, 2021 Paula Andrea Castro Prieto +6 more
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Business R&D and the Interplay of R&D Subsidies and Market Uncertainty [PDF]
The literature suggests that public research and development (R&D) subsidies may reduce market failures affecting private R&D investment caused by incomplete appropriability of knowledge and financial constraints due capital market imperfections. Drawing
Czarnitzki, Dirk, Toole, Andrew A.
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