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Financing Newsvendor with Trade Credit and Bank Credit Portfolio

open access: yesMathematics
Trade credit is a crucial component of supply chain financing, enabling businesses to manage cash flow and optimize inventory levels. This study delves into the application and implications of multiple trade credit types with different repayment periods ...
Yue Zhang, Bin Zhang, Rongguang Chen
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Creditor rights, monetary policy, financial crisis, and trade credit

open access: yesBusiness Research Quarterly, 2023
This article analyses how creditor rights affect the trade credit channel of monetary policy. We also aim to test whether these effects were conditioned by the global financial crisis of 2008. Using a sample of 15,356 firms from 29 countries (2001–2017),
María Cantero-Saiz   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Electrospun Wood‐Derived Biopolymers as Electrodes in Electrochemical Energy Storage Technologies

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Electrospinning transforms wood‐derived cellulose and lignin into architecturally defined, binder‐free carbon electrodes with tuneable porosity and functionality. This review shows how fibre design enables decoupled charge and mass transport, enhancing performance across battery systems, while identifying key challenges in spinnability, scalability ...
Michael W. Thielke   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Implications to mitigate business failure: Aligning the impact of the South African business environment on SMEs’ trade credit management with trade credit theories

open access: yesThe Southern African Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management
Background: Trade credit mismanagement results in cash-flow constraints that impair business liquidity, which can be attributed to several primary reasons for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) failure.
Werner H. Otto
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Trade Credit

open access: yes, 2023
Trade credit remains an important source of finance for firms in developing countries and many firms in developed countries, especially those that are young, small, or informationally opaque for other reasons. This paper summarizes the literature and explains the pervasiveness of trade credit, detailing its potential advantages over formal credit in ...
Cull, Robert   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Adult Sex Ratio as a Demographic Feedback Linking Mating Systems, Parental Care, and Evolution

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Breeding systems are some of the most diverse social behavior, and our team is investigation the evolutionary causes of this diversity. This review summarises our research carried out at the University of Bath. We argue that demographic components of wild populations, especially the adult sex ratio, plays a key role driving breeding system variation ...
Tamás Székely, Oscar G. Miranda
wiley   +1 more source

Bank Credit and Trade Credit under the COVID Crisis: A Comparison of the High-Technology and Low-Technology SMEs in Portugal

open access: yesEkonomický Časopis
This study mainly investigates the relationship between bank credit and trade credit separately for high-technology and low-technology small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Portugal with considering the impacts of the COVID crisis.
Yehui Tong, Zélia Serrasqueiro
doaj   +1 more source

The Mind From Within: Visceral Roots of Human Cognition

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
The physiological activity of visceral organs, such as the heart, the lungs, and the gut, is surprisingly linked to many sophisticated mental operations, such as remembering the past, being aware of ourselves, making choices, and forging social bonds.
Alessandro Monti   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

CLRe: A Synergistic Dual‐Engine Framework for One‐Step Retrosynthesis Prediction

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
CLRe uses a contrastive difficulty score to order pretrained seq2seq fine‐tuning for retrosynthesis. Reaction embeddings define the ranking score, and a cumulative easy‐to‐hard schedule expands from the easiest subset to the full training set while earlier examples remain active.
Tianhao Su   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trade credit and sustainable profitability in small and medium-sized enterprises

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications
The existing literature has examined both the positive and negative effects of trade credit but has not integrated these two effects into a unified framework, making it difficult to determine how firms should manage their trade credit.
Xuan Zou, Lei Zhou
doaj   +1 more source

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