Banks as Catalysts for Industrialization

Banks as Catalysts for the Big Push

A literature has developed to substantiate Rosenstein-Rodan's intuition that coordination of a critical mass of investments may induce industrialization through a `big push.' This literature has essentially ignored the question of what economic institutions may overcome the coordination failures which give rise to an `underdevelopment trap.' In this paper we propose that banks may act as a `cat...

Universal Banks and German Industrialization: A Reappraisal

Polysiloxanes as supports for catalysts

Introduction Immobilization (heterogenization) of catalysts aims to obtain catalysts which combine the advantages of homogeneous catalysts (high activity, selectivity) and heterogeneous ones (stability, ease of separation from the reaction medium and the possibility of re-use in subsequent reaction cycles). One of the most promising directions of research in this field is the use of polymers as...

Coordination Complexes as Catalysts

Coordination Complexes as Catalysts The first half of the book focuses on the use of coordination complexes as catalysts for a diverse range of organic reactions. Chapters on supported metal complexes and combinatorial catalysis are also included in this half of the book. Chapter 1, covering catalysts for polymerisation, is not an area where platinum group metal (pgm) complexes would be expecte...

Developing physicians as catalysts for change.

Failures in care coordination are a reflection of larger systemic shortcomings in communication and in physician engagement in shared team leadership. Traditional medical care and medical education neither focus on nor inspire responses to the challenges of coordinating care across episodes and sites. The authors suggest that the absence of attention to gaps in the continuum of care has led phy...