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A “Cool” Route to Battery Electrode Material Recovery

open access: yesAdvanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
Ice‐stripping, a novel sub‐zero electrode delamination technique, enables >90% recovery of the electrode materials from manufacturing scrap and end‐of‐life batteries. Water is sprayed upon a porous electrode and quickly freezes when placed on a cold surface. The foil is peeled away, leaving behind the black mass with the morphology retained.
Lin Chen   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

King and Cochrane: The technological treadmill and racial inequity in US agriculture

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Between 1920 and 1969, the number of Black farmers in the US decreased from 14% of all operators to 4%. Using Martin Luther King Jr.'s critique of agricultural policy and Willard Cochrane's theory of the technological treadmill, we explore how racial discrimination was linked to policies that led to structural change in US agriculture.
Jared Hutchins, Jacopo De Marinis
wiley   +1 more source

Access to FHLBank advances and the performance of thrift institutions [PDF]

open access: yes
This article examines thrift financial data from 1985 to 1991 and finds that financially distressed thrifts, especially those benefiting from regulatory forbearance policies, tended to borrow more from Federal Home Loan Banks.
Elijah Brewer, III   +2 more
core  

How we are tempted into debt: emotional appeals in loan advertising in UK newspapers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The purpose of this study is to examine the use of emotional appeals in loan advertisements and compare it to the use of emotional appeals in savings advertisements.
Czarnecka, Barbara   +3 more
core  

A Scoping Review of Nudges for Enhancing Agricultural Policy

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following PRISMA guidelines, we conduct a scoping review on 18 empirical studies on nudging interventions for farmers in Europe and the USA. The evidence on the effectiveness of nudges is mixed. Some studies demonstrate positive outcomes, particularly when nudges are combined with other interventions; others report no effect or negative ...
Nadja El Benni   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Study of Factors Affecting the Agricultural Credit Repayment A Case Study of Fars Province [PDF]

open access: yesفصلنامه پژوهش‌های اقتصادی ایران, 2004
The aim of this study was to investigate factors affecting repayment of agricultural loan in FarsProvince, using the data collected from the Agricultural Bank and 163 questionnaires filled out in the Province of Fars.
Mehrdad Bagheri, Bahaedin Najafi
doaj  

Determinants of Problem Loans: Non-performing Loans vs. Loan Quality Deterioration

open access: yesInternational Business Research, 2016
<p class="1main-text">The growing literature on credit risk determinants provides results that are based on the set of bad loans present in the bank's assets especially non-performing loans. Besides this classic proxy, the present paper examines the determinants of loan quality deterioration by using a qualitative measure.
openaire   +3 more sources

Do Consumers Value Diversity in Agriculture? A Choice Experiment

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farm ownership in the US today is racially and ethnically homogeneous. Diverse farmers and ranchers make up less than 10% of all producers, they tend to be less financially stable and have tighter profit margins. In the past few years, both government and industry programs have aimed to increase the participation and profitability of diverse ...
Maria Kalaitzandonakes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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