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IMF Lending and Geopolitics [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 There is growing awareness that the distribution of IMF facilities may not be influenced only by the economic needs of the borrowers. This paper focuses on the fact that the IMF may favour geopolitically important countries in the distribution of IMF loans, differentiating between concessional and nonconcessional facilities.
Reynaud, Julien, Vauday, Julien
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Soft Hardware, Flowing Software: Reconfigurable Microfluidics for Adaptable Chemical Computation
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.A reconfigurable microfluidic platform based on soft, photo‐printable, and chemically erasable hydrogel structures printed and erased in situ is used to control flow routing, mixing, chemical patterning, and even chemical computing. Using hardware to control chemical computations decouples logic function from molecular composition, demonstrated via ...
Piet J. M. Swinkels +4 more
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Bank Ownership and Lending Behavior [PDF]
This paper checks whether state-ownership of banks is correlated with lending behavior over the business cycle and finds that their lending is less responsive to macroeconomic shocks than the lending of private banks.
Ugo Panizza, Alejandro Micco
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Financial mechanisms for attracting investments in development projects as a factor of urban growth
Фінансово-кредитні системи: перспективи розвитку.The article examines financial mechanisms for attracting investments into development projects as a key factor in the growth of modern cities. Investment in urban infrastructure and real estate is a crucial instrument for stimulating economic growth ...
Maksym Zhytar
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Texas Department of Savings & Mortgage Lending ... annual report of savings institutions
, 2009 Report by the Texas Department of Saving & Mortgage Lending containing information tables with financial information on such things as bank assets, assets of associated business by county and equity ...
Texas. Department of Savings and Mortgage Lending.
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Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.3D conductive frameworks can maintain continuous electron transport, mechanical stability, and interfacial integrity, helping next‐generation batteries operate more efficiently. This Review examines their relevance to Si anodes, all‐solid‐state batteries, and dry‐processed electrodes, and highlights bio‐derived carbons as sustainable, structurally ...
SeoYoung Ha +5 more
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3D‐Printing Aided Rapid Prototyping of Pretensioned Tensegrity Structures for Robotic Applications
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Printing, injection molding, and assembly (PMA) is a method for rapid prototyping mesoscale, topologically complex, and tensioned tensegrity structures. In combination with PMA method, two mold design strategies: modular mold and compact channel layout, enable efficiency and scalability for tensegrity fabrication.
Yi Sun +3 more
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The new investment instruments developed in the international financial market [PDF]
Eastern European Journal of Regional Studies, 2015 The development of an economy in general is conditioned by the investment and business environment of a country. The investment activity has an increasing impact on the level of competitiveness and performance of an economical agent that may contribute ...
Rodica HÎNCU, Ana LITOCENCO
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Cogent Economics & Finance, 2017 We investigate the impact of interest and non-interest products and services on the margin a bank can derive from a specific customer. The analysis is based on 4,277 observations of relationships between small cooperative banks and small and medium-sized
Antti Fredriksson +2 more
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Learning‐Based Soft Robotic Grasping: Recent Progress and Remaining Challenges
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This review analyzes learning‐based soft robotic grasping from a pipeline‐oriented perspective, encompassing soft gripper design, multimodal sensing, and learning‐based planning and control. It surveys key neural network architectures and benchmark datasets and identifies critical challenges such as sim‐to‐real transfer, generalization, and continual ...
Arnab Majumder +3 more
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