This paper analyses the role played by vertical linkages on effects of trade liberalization technology upgrading, average productivity, and welfare in a model with heterogeneous firms. We find that strength shapes produces firms’ survival upgrading decisions, having an impact productivity economy, ultimately, welfare. Our calibration results show linkages, their interaction magnify

We develop a model, based on asymmetric information, which provides a rational explanation for the persistent use of royalties alongside equity in university technology transfer. The model shows how royalties, through their value destroying distortions, can act as a screening tool that allows a less informed principal, such as the university’s Technology Transfer Office (TTO), to elicit private...

In the recent years extracting non-trivial information from audio sources has become possible. The resulting data has induced a new area in speech technology known as computational paralinguistics. A task in this area was presented at the ComParE 2013 Challenge (using the SSPNet Conflict Corpus), where the task was to determine the intensity of conflicts arising in speech recordings, based only...

Healthcare waste (HCW) management is a complex issue influenced by many factors, including technological, economic, environmental, and social factors. It possible to regard the evaluation of best treatment technique for HCW as challenging case MCDM (multi-criteria decision-making), where various alternatives criteria must be considered. The presentation handling shaky data are crucial choosing ...