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Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2011
DOI: 10.1068/C1016R
Abstract: In this paper we apply both cross-section and panel analysis to the relationship between fiscal and political decentralization and government quality. We find that fiscal decentralization improves government quality but not if it is accompanied by political decentralization. The negative impact of political decentralization on the relationship between fiscal decentralization and government quality persists when controlling for the degree of democratic maturity across countries.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2014
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-12-2009
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2000
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-05-2017
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.1068/C11140R
Abstract: We examine the impact of structural and cohesion funds on regional disparities within EU countries over the period 1995–2006. We find that structural funds have reduced regional disparities over this period. Our empirical estimates also suggest that the effect of structural funds on regional disparities is potentially reversed above some level of transfer intensity (approximately 1.6% of country gross domestic product). This has implications for the desirable allocation of the funds across countries especially since, in the current programming period (2007–13), all the new member states of the Union except for Cyprus and Malta have a transfer intensity which exceeds this threshold.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-2016
DOI: 10.1002/9781405165518.WBEOS0603
Abstract: At the in idual level irrationality emerges when people fail to maximize a well‐ordered preference set or insofar as they entertain systematically biased beliefs about choice alternatives. Assuming that in iduals have unbiased estimates of the price of irrationality, they will tend to behave more rationally as the private cost of irrational behavior increases. At the aggregate level, irrational outcomes may be less likely in market settings but more likely in large number public or collective choice ones. From a Weberian perspective, a rational society characterized by efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control may yield irrationalities in the guise of inefficiencies, homogenization, alienation, dehumanization, and disenchantment.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-03-2017
Abstract: Nanostructures of ternary topological insulator (TI) Bi
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-03-2022
DOI: 10.1111/ECPO.12187
Abstract: We revisit work that has indicated that the presence and strength of political budget cycles depend on a range of conditioning factors. We point to the importance of voter time preference and argue that, in relatively poorer countries, high discount rates will lead impatient voters to value immediate consumption due to fiscal expansions over the future benefits from fiscally responsible policies. Consistent with this assertion, our empirical evidence, based on a s le of up to 67 low‐ and high‐income countries over the period 1995 to 2016, indicates that budget cycles emerge in countries with a GDP per capita below a threshold of around 30,000 PPP‐adjusted constant 2017 U.S. dollars. This goes beyond previous explanations of budget cycles based on voters with short memories who underestimate the costs of expansionary policies, voters with little experience with democracy or voters who are poorly informed about the competence or policy preferences of political candidates.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 20-02-2015
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2003
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
Date: 05-03-2019
DOI: 10.1021/ACS.NANOLETT.9B00381
Abstract: Emerging two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting materials serve as promising alternatives for next-generation digital electronics and optoelectronics. However, large-scale 2D semiconductor films synthesized so far are typically polycrystalline with defective grain boundaries that could degrade their performance. Here, for the first time, wafer-size growth of a single-crystal Bi
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-02-2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2011
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2000
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-03-2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 27-05-2015
DOI: 10.1017/S1744137414000186
Abstract: A growing literature in the fields of economics and political science has identified the importance of culture for both economic development and good governance. In this article, we argue that a fundamental factor driving cultural traits conducive towards development and governance is inter-personal income inequality. Our empirical evidence from a cross-section of countries and based on measures of culture extracted from the World Values Survey, provides strong support for our argument even after controlling for the effect of an extensive range of potentially confounding variables and the possibility that our estimates may suffer from both measurement error and reverse causality.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 28-12-2017
Abstract: This article analyses the redistributive efficiency of social transfers and direct taxation in a panel of 28 developed economies during the period 1995–2010. In order to explore how redistribution is achieved through these fiscal policies, a two-stage approach is applied. First, we evaluate their redistributive efficiency – the degree of redistribution attained for a given level of transfers and taxes – using data envelopment analysis (DEA). We find lower redistributive efficiency in Southern Europe and the United States and higher efficiency levels in the Nordic and Central European countries and Australia. Second, we use panel regression analysis to identify the determinants of efficiency differences and reveal the crucial role of government quality as well as factors affecting the redistributive profile of fiscal policies.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-04-2016
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-07-2016
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-09-2021
Abstract: The strong metal‐support interaction (SMSI) is widely used in supported metal catalysts and extensive studies have been performed to understand it. Although considerable progress has been achieved, the surface structure of the support, as an important influencing factor, is usually ignored. We report a facet‐dependent SMSI of Pd‐TiO 2 in oxygen by using in situ atmospheric pressure TEM. Pd NPs supported on TiO 2 (101) and (100) surfaces showed encapsulation. In contrast, no such cover layer was observed in Pd‐TiO 2 (001) catalyst under the same conditions. This facet‐dependent SMSI, which originates from the variable surface structure of the support, was demonstrated in a probe reaction of methane combustion catalyzed by Pd‐TiO 2 . Our discovery of the oxidative facet‐dependent SMSI gives direct evidence of the important role of the support surface structure in SMSI and provides a new way to tune the interaction between metal NPs and the support as well as catalytic activity.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-06-2022
Abstract: Supported metal catalysts are important in many industrial reactions. It is reported that support materials are not always inert, and in some cases could even interact with metal nanoparticles (NPs) actively via various ways. In particular, the strong metal‐support interaction (SMSI), referring to metal NPs covered by support materials, affects catalysis at the active sites on the metal NP surface, which can serve as a very effective method in tuning and improving catalytic performance. By tailoring the support materials or controlling the treatment processes, different kinds of SMSI, such as classical SMSI, oxidative SMSI, wet‐chemistry SMSI, and adsorbate‐mediated SMSI, can be achieved. This concept summarizes the general strategies to tune SMSI and discusses the key results. Moreover, a new proposal is presented to tailor SMSI by combining both the exposed facets of the support materials and external environments. Furthermore, the challenges faced at present are discussed and useful insights for future research concerning this topic are provided.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Date: 2015
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Date: 2019
DOI: 10.1039/C8CP07576J
Abstract: A step-wise transformation process of a Pd@Au nanoparticle both structurally and compositionally was observed. Monte Carlo simulation was used to explain the results.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2018
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
Date: 17-01-2018
DOI: 10.1021/ACS.NANOLETT.7B03221
Abstract: Vertical integration of van der Waals (vdW) materials with atomic precision is an intriguing possibility brought forward by these two-dimensional (2D) materials. Essential to the design and analysis of these structures is a fundamental understanding of the vertical transport of charge carriers into and across vdW materials, yet little has been done in this area. In this report, we explore the important roles of single layer graphene in the vertical tunneling process as a tunneling barrier. Although a semimetal in the lateral lattice plane, graphene together with the vdW gap act as a tunneling barrier that is nearly transparent to the vertically tunneling electrons due to its atomic thickness and the transverse momenta mismatch between the injected electrons and the graphene band structure. This is accentuated using electron tunneling spectroscopy (ETS) showing a lack of features corresponding to the Dirac cone band structure. Meanwhile, the graphene acts as a lateral conductor through which the potential and charge distribution across the tunneling barrier can be tuned. These unique properties make graphene an excellent 2D atomic grid, transparent to charge carriers, and yet can control the carrier flux via the electrical potential. A new model on the quantum capacitance's effect on vertical tunneling is developed to further elucidate the role of graphene in modulating the tunneling process. This work may serve as a general guideline for the design and analysis of vdW vertical tunneling devices and heterostructures, as well as the study of electron/spin injection through and into vdW materials.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-10-2014
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 1998
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-2006
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-04-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-11-2015
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-04-2012
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-01-2013
DOI: 10.1111/KYKL.12012
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 13-07-2010
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
Date: 24-11-2020
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 27-08-2003
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-2005
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-10-2020
Start Date: 2014
End Date: 2014
Funder: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
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End Date: 2015
Funder: Inter-American Development Bank
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2017
End Date: 2019
Funder: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2009
End Date: 2013
Funder: Generalitat de Catalunya
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2012
End Date: 2013
Funder: Institut d'Estudis Autonòmics
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2010
End Date: 2011
Funder: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2007
End Date: 2008
Funder: Institut d'Estudis Autonòmics
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 1997
End Date: 1999
Funder: Generalitat de Catalunya
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 1996
End Date: 1999
Funder: Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 1996
End Date: 1998
Funder: European Commission
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