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How Fiscal Policies Affect Credit Rates: Probit Analysis of Three Main Credit Rating Agencies’ Sovereign Credit Notes

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, 2019
The aim of this study is to identify the relationship between fiscal policy and sovereign credit ratings within a comparative framework for the post-2000 period.
Eda Balikçioğlu, Hakki Hakan Yilmaz
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Sovereign credit ratings, the macroeconomy and credit default swap spreads [PDF]

Brussels economic review, 2013
Special Issue30th Symposium on Money, Banking and FinanceGuest editors: Christian Aubin, Noëlle Duport andDaniel ...
Liu, Yang, MORLEY, BRUCE
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Alternative Policy Designs to Help Farmers Select Profitable Conservation Practices

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Voluntary private carbon initiatives (VPCIs) promote the implementation of agricultural conservation practices that mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) via financial incentives to participating farmers. Simultaneously, an array of public policies supports the adoption of conservation practices through technical and financial ...
Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn, Alejandro Plastina   +1 more
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Sales Management in Green Finance: Investment Efficiency and Business Innovation in Financial Institutions [PDF]

Revista de Management Comparat International
This study explores the dynamics of sales management within the context of green finance, focusing on the efficiency of investments and the role of business innovation in advancing sustainability goals.
Mădălina Vrabie, Andrei Zegrean, Cecilia Ciocîrlan   +2 more
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Cost‐Benefit Analysis of the European Union Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism in Fertilizer Trade

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), launching 2026, will charge EU importers for embedded carbon emissions, aiming to reduce emissions but raising import costs. Shifts in demand following implementation may reduce carbon emissions, but importers will bear the cost of increased prices.
Natalie Crisci, Md Deluair Hossen, Andrew Muhammad, Seong‐Hoon Cho   +3 more
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Surgical Outcomes and Recurrence Management in Borderline Resectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Implications for Multidisciplinary Strategies

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
Multivariate analysis identified that up‐to‐7 out (p < 0.001), lymph node metastasis (p < 0.001), and non‐anatomical resection (p = 0.02) were independent predictors of cancer recurrence, while older age (p = 0.01), Child‐Pugh B (p < 0.001), up‐to‐7 out (p = 0.01), macrovascular invasion (p = 0.01), and lymph node metastasis (p < 0.001) were ...
Koichiro Haruki, Kenei Furukawa, Munetoshi Akaoka, Yuto Yamahata, Shinji Onda, Yoshihiro Shirai, Masashi Tsunematsu, Tomohiko Taniai, Michinori Matsumoto, Toru Ikegami   +9 more
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Macroeconomics Determinants of Sovereign Credit Ratings

International Business Research, 2015
The objective of this paper is to identify the determinants of sovereign credit rating. This study including 53 countries in the study covers from year 2000 to 2011. This study examines nine macroeconomic variables and extended by using three qualitative variables, i.e., history of default, economic development and economic freedom.
Soh, Wei Chee, Cheng, Fan Fah, Md. Nassir, Annuar   +2 more
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VAE+DDPG: An Attention‐Enhanced Variational Autoencoder for Deep Reinforcement Learning‐Based Autonomous Navigation in Low‐Light Environments

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Variational Autoencoder+Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient addresses low‐light failures of infrared depth sensing for indoor robot navigation. Stage 1 pretrains an attention‐enhanced Variational Autoencoder (Convolutional Block Attention Module+Feature Pyramid Network) to map dark depth frames to a well‐lit reconstruction, yielding a 128‐D latent code ...
Uiseok Lee, Chanhong Hwang, Hyunseok Kang, Yechan Park, Hangwoo Jin, Tuan Anh Nguyen, Eunmi Choi, Dugki Min   +7 more
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Predicting Materials Thermodynamics Enabled by Large Language Model‐Driven Dataset Building and Machine Learning

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Illustration of text data mining of rare earth mineral thermodynamic parameters with the large language model‐powered LMExt. A dataset is built with mined thermodynamic properties. Subsequently, a machine learning model is trained to predict formation enthalpy from the dataset.
Juejing Liu, Haydn Anderson, Noah I. Waxman, Vsevolod Kovalev, Byron Fisher, Elizabeth Li, Xiaofeng Guo   +6 more
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Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David J. Spielman, Frank Place   +5 more
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