Explaining Russian manufacturing exports: Firm characteristics and external conditions

This paper examines the exporting behaviour of Russian manufacturers by considering the effects of firm characteristics and external conditions. Two measures of export behaviour are considered: the decision to export and the share of exports to developed markets. I find that specific exporting experience is the main determinant of both export status and destination. Contrary to studies for other countries, firm features, with the exception of firm size, are irrelevant for export status, while labour productivity is important in determining the intensity of exports to developed markets. There is also evidence that spillover effects from agglomeration have an effect on exporting. At the same time, a lower degree of regulatory capture and a less corrupt judiciary matter for orientation towards more developed markets, while regional resource dependence does not hinder manufacturing exporting.export decision ; export destination ; institutions ; regulatory capture ; spillovers ; agglomeration ; Dutch disease ; Russia

ANALISIS TEKNIK INDEKS KONSISTENSI HARMONIK DALAM METODE ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS

Abstract Decision making is an activity undertaken at a problem to be solved. One type of problem is a semi-structured problems are problems with multiple criteria and multiple alternatives. One method of making the decision to semi-structured problems is Analytical Hierachy Process (AHP), a method to compare two alternatives based on certain criteria (pairwise comparison), and among the criteria to compare one with the other criteria. When performing a comparison between two objects, the consistency of decision-makers must be maintained. The study aims to analyze the value of consistency in measurement technique AHP method. For semi-structured decision problems, maintaining consistency is not easy. Harmonic consistency index technique be an alternative to maintain the consistency of decision-makers. The workings of this technique is that, after the comparison of two objects put in a pairwise matrix, the matrix which has not been filled will be filled after seeing the comparison of two objects that already exist, without having to ask again to decision-makers. This technique is expected to ensure consistency of decision making is maintained. Three case studies applying a promotion decision-making in three high schools who are in the organization of an educational foundation in the city of Bandung. Analysis of the results of application of harmonic consistency index was tested with the initial hypothesis that the technique produces harmonic consistency index consistency the index is small enough so that it can be concluded the decision making process carried out consistently

Equivalence of the ellipticity conditions for geometric variational problems

We exploit the so called atomic condition, recently defined by De Philippis, De Rosa, and Ghiraldin in [Comm. Pure Appl. Math.] and proved to be necessary and sufficient for the validity of the anisotropic counterpart of the Allard rectifiability theorem. In particular, we address an open question of this seminal work, showing that the atomic condition implies the strict Almgren geometric ellipticity condition

The particle-hole transformation, supersymmetry and achiral boundaries of the open Hubbard model

We show that the particle-hole transformation in the Hubbard model has a crucial role in relating Shastry's R-matrix to the AdS/CFT S-matrix. In addition, we construct an achiral boundary for the open Hubbard chain which possesses twisted Yangian symmetry