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Trade credit in Zimbabwean manufacturing

open access: yesWorld Development, 1997
Abstract Credit from suppliers is an important but often neglected source of finance for manufacturing firms. Zimbabwe is no exception. Unlike credit from financial institutions, trade credit does not rely on formal collateral but on trust and reputation. Contract enforcement is flexible.
openaire   +2 more sources

Cost‐Benefit Analysis of the European Union Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism in Fertilizer Trade

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of Trade Credit on Firms Growth: A Case Study of Pakistani Non-financial Firms

open access: yesJournal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies, 2019
This study attempts to investigate the impact of trade credit on the growth of non-financial firms of Pakistan. Most of the businesses move from traditional business transactions to automated and sophisticated credit transaction methods.
Hafiz M. Adnan hanif
doaj   +1 more source

Trade Balance Constraints and Optimal Regulation [PDF]

open access: yes
We investigate the interactions between optimal regulation and external credit constraints. When part of a regulated ¯rm is owned by foreign investors, a credit-constrained country who wants to send pro¯ts abroad has to generate enough surplus in the ...
Lucia Quesada, Omar Chisari
core   +3 more sources

VAE+DDPG: An Attention‐Enhanced Variational Autoencoder for Deep Reinforcement Learning‐Based Autonomous Navigation in Low‐Light Environments

open access: yesAdvanced 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   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

MusicSwarm: Biologically Inspired Intelligence for Music Composition

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Biologically inspired swarms of frozen foundation models self‐organize to compose complex music without fine‐tuning. By coordinating through stigmergic signals, decentralized agents dynamically evolve specialized roles and adapt to solve complex tasks.
Markus J. Buehler
wiley   +1 more source

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