Abstract In this article, we study firm-level determinants of corruption using a sample 164,000 companies from 144 countries for the 2005–2020 period. We analyze two variables related to corruption: perception as an obstacle doing business ordinal logit model and actual bribe tax payments fractional model. Controlling other factors, both sets our empirical results show that extent is time spent...

In complex strategic situations decision-making agents interact with many other agents and have access to many pieces of information throughout their play. This usually leads to game solving being a very complex, almost intractable procedure. Moreover, algorithms for solving games usually fail to explain how the various equilibria come about and how “plausible” they are. Reasoning patterns try ...

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Controlling embodied agents with many actuated degrees of freedom is a challenging task. We propose a method that can discover and interpolate between context dependent high-level actions or body-affordances. These provide an abstract, low-dimensional interface indexing high-dimensional and timeextended action policies. Our method is related to recent approaches in the machine learning literatu...

This paper will review the typical gate drive requirements for the latest generation of high power IGBT modules and present simplified implementations of the required circuits using newly developed hybrid integrated circuit (HIC) building blocks. A newly developed circuit that provides short circuit protection without desaturation detection will also be presented.

ion Tests A careful examination of the heart rate data indicates that most of it has the following form: "8/16/93 23:24:44" 176 "8/16/93 23:26:04" 175 "8/16/93 23:26:24" 176 "8/16/93 23:26:44" 175 "8/16/93 23:27:02" 176 In other words, most of the changes from one reading to the next were insignificant. A more rigorous analysis of the heart rate data indicates that there were no two consecutive...