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Competition and private R&D investment.
PLoS ONE, 2020 We investigate the determinants of the sign of Research and Development reaction functions of rival firms. Using a two-stage n-firm Cournot competition game, we show that this sign depends on four types of environments in terms of product rivalry and ...
Thomas Grebel, Lionel Nesta
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Analysing the criteria of private equity investment in South Africa
Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2021 Orientation: Within the conceptual paradigm that the institutional environment may influence investment criteria, this study argues that South Africa has a unique socio-economic environment and matters such as black economic empowerment, corruption ...
Albertus Hamman +2 more
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.Implantable optoelectrical devices are an effective resource for the modulation and monitoring of neural activity with high spatiotemporal resolution. This review discusses current challenges faced by these devices and outlines future perspectives for the development of next‐generation neural interfaces targeting chronic, multisite, and multimodal ...
Stella Aslanoglou +4 more
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The Impact of Liberalisation on Private Investment
, 1999 In many contexts extra investment is seen as socially more desirable than extra consumption, while private investment is seen as more productive than public investment. Since private investment has invariably been very scarce in socialist Africa, it is therefore increasingly becoming a natural objective of government policy.
Collier, P, Gunning, J
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Evolution of Materials and Device Stacks for HfO2‐Based Ferroelectric Memories
Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.This review summarizes engineering strategies for HfO2 based ferroelectric memories with focus on FeCAP and FeFET structures. It describes how dopant design, stress effects, and interface engineering improve the bulk ferroelectric response. It further discusses how channel engineering supports reliable memory characteristics and scalable integration ...
Eunjin Kim, Jiyong Woo
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Disorder‐Induced Extremely Low Thermal Conductivity of Graphite Fluoride
Advanced Science, EarlyView.This article investigates the effect of fluorination on the thermal conductivity of graphite fluoride, demonstrating the relationship between structural modification and thermal conductivity in an extreme case. The record‐low through‐plane thermal conductivity measured in exfoliated graphite fluoride flakes was found to correlate with the wide ...
Wonsik Lee +10 more
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes +2 more
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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 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRIVATE AND GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT IN IRAN [PDF]
فصلنامه پژوهشهای اقتصادی ایران, 2002 Investment is one of the crucial issues in economics. In the literature, it is shown that increasing government (Public sector) investment will crowd out private investment.
Kambiz Hojabr Kiani, Maryam Khodamardi
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