A light-scattering study of the kinetic size distribution changes of aerosols

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Why Don't Foreign Firms Cooperate in U.S. Antidumping Investigations?: An Emperical Analysis

Foreign firms face punitive duties if they do not cooperate with the US Department of Commerce (DOC) in antidumping procedures. For example, 37% of all foreign firms involved in antidumping investigations in the US chose faced “facts available” margins for the 1995-2002 period, with average antidumping duties of 31% for cooperating foreign firms, compared to 87% for those who do not. The existing literature has focused on how DOC discretion has led to foreign firm non-cooperation. This paper instead examines individual foreign firm’s decisions about whether to cooperate during this same period. We find evidence that non-cooperation is consistent with a model of foreign firms rationally choosing not to cooperate, rather than solely as a result of investigating authority bias against imports.antidumping, commercial policy, trade policy, facts available

Las revistas del siglo XVIII y el concepto de “naturaleza”

The eighteenth century saw the birth of the periodical, which targeted a growing educated English upper-middle class. This class was pragmatic, open-minded, but also materialistic and ambitious. “Nature” is one of the most frequently-mentioned topics, though its definition was and is vague. The corpus selected presents the paradox that while nature is praised by nearly all contributors as a perfect machine, the flawless creation of a perfect God, at the same time the manipulation of the natural world carried out by this very class went entirely uncommented on in the texts. El siglo dieciocho vio el nacimiento de la revista, que se dirigía a una clase creciente de personas educadas de clase media y alta en Inglaterra. Esta clase era pragmática, tolerante, pero también materialista y ambiciosa. “La naturaleza” es uno de los temas más frecuentes, aunque su signifi cado era y es imprecisa. El corpus seleccionado presenta la paradoja de que, mientras se elogiaba la naturaleza como una máquina perfecta, la creación de un dios perfecto, por parte de casi todos los autores, al mismo tiempo la manipulación de la naturaleza llevada a cabo precisamente por esta clase pasó inadvertida en los textos considerados