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Rent-Seeking in Developed and Developing Countries: Cross Section and Time Series Studies [PDF]
The property rights issue is one of the most important institutional differences between developed/developing countries. The violation of the property rights results with rentseeking.
Dilek Demirbas
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Hard‐Magnetic Soft Millirobots in Underactuated Systems
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This review provides a comprehensive overview of hard‐magnetic soft millirobots in underactuated systems. It examines key advances in structural design, physics‐informed modeling, and control strategies, while highlighting the interplay among these domains.
Qiong Wang +4 more
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Rent Creation and Rent Containment
, 2017 The evolution of the telecommunications sector is of keen interest from both a development and a political economy perspective. Telecommunications is critical to economic dynamics, to the quality of life, to social service provision, and to citizen engagement. This paper explores the political
Atiyas, Izak +2 more
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FISHERIES MANAGEMENT AND MARKET-ORIENTED VALUE ADDING (MOVA) [PDF]
This paper focuses on fisheries management systems as a motivation factor for market-oriented value adding (MOVA). Analytically, the paper relies on the marketing and industrial economics literature.
Trondsen, Torbjorn
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TreeSpider: In‐Canopy Exploration With Tether‐Based Aerial Modular Arms
Advanced 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
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Rent-seeking competition from state coffers in Greece: a calibrated DSGE model [PDF]
We incorporate an uncoordinated redistributive struggle for extra fiscal privileges and favors into an otherwise standard dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model.
Apostolis Philippopoulos +3 more
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EU-Rent car rentals specification [PDF]
, 2003 EU-Rent is a widely known case study being promoted as a basis for demonstration of product capabilities. However, no in-depth case analysis neither specification has been developed.
Frias, Leonor +2 more
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.An enhanced universal gripper combining rigid mechanics with self‐adaptable fingers is presented for industrial automation. The novel six‐bar linkage with integrated compliant pad eliminates mechanical interference while enabling passive shape adaptation.
Muhammad Usman Khalid +7 more
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Conservation & Society, 2010 Since the collapse of socialism, Central and Eastern Europe has experienced a massive rush on forest resources. This paper examines the concrete mechanisms through which the postsocialist transformation has spurred this rush through a case study of a ...
Stahl Johannes
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Wages, Profits and Individual Unemployment Risk : Evidence from Matched Worker-Firm Data [PDF]
We present new evidence on the extent of rent sharing based on a large panel of matched worker-firm data for Sweden. Controlling for worker and firm heterogeneity, as well as examining the problem of endogeneity of profits, we report evidence implying ...
Arai, Mahmood, Heyman, Fredrik
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