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Fiscal Policy and Supply Chain Resilience: The Role of Tax Incentives [PDF]
Global supply chains face growing geopolitical, environmental, and technological pressures, making resilience a core policy priority. Beyond regulatory and investment tools, fiscal instruments, especially tax incentives – are increasingly used to ...
Murat Aydın
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From Dependence to Dominance: How Resource Challenges Are Empowering Logistics Providers in Europe
ABSTRACT The interplay among actors in European global value chains (GVC) is evolving due to increased interactions with logistics service providers (LSP). This research explores the characteristics of the emerging business relationships between logistics and manufacturing companies in Europe.
Javier Turienzo
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Can the localization ratio be considered as a resilience indicator in the supply chain?
Abstract Supply chain resilience is concerned with establishing disruption‐resistant operational practices and ensuring the achievement of some planned performance responding to shocks. Thus, resilience is both a quality and a quantity. The existing literature is rich in analyzing each of these two parts separately. However, studies connecting quantity
Dmitry Ivanov
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Optimization of Shoring/Reshoring Levels in High-Rise Building Construction
Formwork system is a significant constituent and a basic requirement for high-rise cast-in-place reinforced concrete buildings. Usually, the builders are confronted with the decision to choose the safe, optimum number of levels of shores/reshores for a
Sohoni Prachi +3 more
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Challenges of Supply Chain Restructuring in Japan
ABSTRACT The risks of high trade dependence on China have been highlighted by the COVID‐19 pandemic and rising tensions between the US and China, prompting calls to restructure the supply chain of some industries. These concerns are particularly prevalent in the clean energy sector, where China dominates by manufacturing low‐cost products. In response,
Minoru Nogimori
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Eight machine‐learning predictive algorithms are rigorously benchmarked on a fully synthetic monthly 61‐month Nanjing sand‐gravel price series with 15 domain‐relevant drivers. SVR and Ridge attain the lowest multivariate errors, while LightGBM and Gaussian Process Regression unexpectedly collapse to the training‐set mean.
You Wu +6 more
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Further Considerations Needed to Assess Reshoring: Its Impact on Host Communities
ABSTRACT After several decades of offshoring, reshoring is becoming an emergent strategy in many countries and industries. Both governments compel firms to reshore their production to their home countries as firms find, in some cases, that it is more profitable for them to do so.
Fernando Merino
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La COVID-19 es una pandemia devastadora. El vehículo para su propagación ha sido la misma red de transportes necesaria para la globalización. El objeto de este trabajo es determinar hasta qué punto la presente situación puede provocar una alteración de ...
Augusto García-Weil
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Invoking Security to Bypass Procedure: The European Union's Critical Medicines Act
Abstract The European Union's recently proposed Critical Medicines Act (CMA) was published without recourse to standard democratic policy‐making procedures. Framed by the European Commission as an urgent response to a pressing security threat, the CMA was not subject to an impact assessment, and the stakeholder consultation designed to inform its ...
Eleanor Brooks, Charlotte Godziewski
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Do robots boost productivity? A quantitative meta‐study
ABSTRACT This meta‐study analyzes the productivity effects of industrial robots. More than 1800 estimates from 85 primary studies are collected. The meta‐analytic evidence suggests that robotization has so far provided, at best, a small boost to productivity. There is strong evidence of publication bias in the positive direction.
Florian Schneider
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