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R&D investment, international trade, and home market and competitiveness efects
(Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia da FGV, 2003-11-13)
We analyze the effects of R&D investment on international trade. The importance of studying this comes from the fact that one of the most important characteristics of modern industrial organization is that firms try to ...
Fuzzy community structure detection by particle competition and cooperation
(2013-04-01)
Identification and classification of overlapping nodes in networks are important topics in data mining. In this paper, a network-based (graph-based) semi-supervised learning method is proposed. It is based on competition ...
Fuzzy community structure detection by particle competition and cooperation
(2013-04-01)
Identification and classification of overlapping nodes in networks are important topics in data mining. In this paper, a network-based (graph-based) semi-supervised learning method is proposed. It is based on competition ...
Competition and sustainability of Ecuadorian microfinance institutions (MFIs)
(Universidad Espíritu Santo, 2022)
Free Competition
(2013-06)
Free competition is the best mechanism to encourage the efficient allocation of resources in the market. This is due to the fact that, in order to earn consumers’ preference, suppliers lower their prices and improve the ...
Fear for Manufacturing? China and the Future of Industry in Brazil and Latin America
(CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESSNEW YORK, 2012)
There has been considerable concern in Latin America over the implications of increased competition from China for local industry. These concerns include the possibility of "deindustrialization," the increased "primarization" ...
Policies for competitiveness
(1994-08)
The progress made by the countries of the region in their stabilization processes has led policy-makers and entrepreneurs to pay increasing attention to the competitiveness of production activities and the factors and ...
Competitiveness of Brazilian sugarcane ethanol compared to US corn ethanol
(ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2010)
Corn ethanol produced in the US and sugarcane ethanol produced in Brazil are the world`s leading sources of biofuel. Current US biofuel policies create both incentives and constraints for the import of ethanol from Brazil ...
The predatory or virtuous choices governors make: the roles of checks and balances and political competition
(2008)
States usually differ markedly in terms of public goods provision and corruption. Why are some state governments able to provide adequate health and education services, but others tend to specialize in the provision of ...