This paper analyzes how access to imported inputs affects firms in developing countries, where domestically produced high-quality inputs are relatively costly. We build an O-Ring type model with quality complementarity across input tasks, ranking tasks by their qualitysensitivity. Because high-quality inputs are relatively cheap in international markets, firms use these instead of domestic inpu...

`-Graph, which learns a sparse graph over the data by sparse representation, has been demonstrated to be effective in clustering especially for high dimensional data. Although it achieves compelling performance, the sparse graph generated by `-Graph ignores the geometric information of the data by sparse representation for each datum separately. To obtain a sparse graph that is aligned to the u...

Abstract. Cash gaps in the financing of agricultural enterprises determine attraction borrowed funds, which contributes to growth production, allows restructuring technological base on an innovative basis and is key growing dynamics their own. Due this, management efficient use funds one most important functions formations management. At same time, subordination production law diminishing retur...

Many developing countries adopt industrial policies that push resources towards selected economic sectors. How should countries choose which sectors to promote? I answer this question by characterizing optimal industrial policy in production networks embedded with market imperfections. My key finding is that effects of market imperfections accumulate through backward demand linkages, thereby ge...

INTRODUCTION One of the most frequent cancers in the world is bladder cancer that affects, according to some authors, 5.4 million persons in the most developed countries. Our study has aimed to estimate the impact projections of this disease in Spain between 2007 and 2022. MATERIAL AND METHODS Mortality data for bladder cancer mortality was used International Classification of Diseases 10th r...

10 Article history: 11 Received 29 June 2009 12 Received in revised form 24 May 2010 13 Accepted 25 May 2010 14 Available online xxxx 5 We decompose labor productivity growth from 1987 to 2005 by examining six partial factors 16 (both supply and demand): changes in value-added coefficients, labor inputs, shares of sectoral 17 demands that are fulfilled domestically, input mix, and the intra-sec...