The personal wealth interests of politicians and government intervention in the economy

We examine whether there is a correlation between personal wealth interests of politicians and their decisions to intervene in the economy. We use the setting of the government’s support of financial institutions under the 2008 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (ESSA). We find that the personal wealth interests of politicians are positively associated with voting in favour of the EESA

Firm-Level Exposure to Epidemic Diseases: Covid-19, SARS, and H1N1

Using tools described in our earlier work (Hassan et al., 2019, 2020), we develop text-based measures of the costs, benefits, and risks listed firms in the US and over 80 other countries associate with the spread of Covid-19 and other epidemic diseases. We identify which firms expect to gain or lose from an epidemic disease and which are most affected by the associated uncertainty as a disease spreads in a region or around the world. As Covid-19 spreads globally in the first quarter of 2020, we find that firms’ primary concerns relate to the collapse of demand, increased uncertainty, and disruption in supply chains. Other important concerns relate to capacity reductions, closures, and employee welfare. By contrast, financing concerns are mentioned relatively rarely. We also identify some firms that foresee opportunities in new or disrupted markets due to the spread of the disease. Finally, we find some evidence that firms that have experience with SARS or H1N1 have more positive expectations about their ability to deal with the coronavirus outbreak

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Veehouderijbedrijven worden steeds groter en de hoeveelheid beschikbare arbeid neemt af. Naast het uitbesteden van bepaalde taken aan de loonwerker, kan de veehouder zélf ook tijd winnen door efficiënter te werken

Coherent electronic transfer in quantum dot systems using adiabatic passage

We describe a scheme for using an all-electrical, rapid, adiabatic population transfer between two spatially separated dots in a triple-quantum dot system. The electron spends no time in the middle dot and does not change its energy during the transfer process. Although a coherent population transfer method, this scheme may well prove useful in incoherent electronic computation (for example quantum-dot cellular automata) where it may provide a coherent advantage to an otherwise incoherent device. It can also be thought of as a limiting case of type II quantum computing, where sufficient coherence exists for a single gate operation, but not for the preservation of superpositions after the operation. We extend our analysis to the case of many intervening dots and address the issue of transporting quantum information through a multi-dot system.Comment: Replaced with (approximately) the published versio

Eerste ervaringen High-techstal met stalinrichting leveren veel informatie

Het high-techbedrijf heeft sinds september 1998 een nieuwe melkveestal, de jongveestal van het bedrijf is nog in aanbouw. De stal wijkt sterk af van traditionele stallen

Stalinrichting op nieuwe High-techbedrijf

Op de Waiboerhoeve is begonnen met de bouw van de nieuwe hightech-stal. Tijdens de komende open dagen in september zal de stal worden geopend. In dit artikel wordt alvast een tipje van de sluier opgelicht over de stalindelin