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Mark Roberts

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Mark Roberts

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Testing the immunocompetence handicap hypothesis: a review of the evidence

ML Roberts, KL Buchanan, MR Evans - Animal behaviour, 2004 - Elsevier
The immunocompetence handicap hypothesis was formulated 12 years ago in an attempt to
offer a proximate mechanism by which female choice of males could be explained by …

[HTML][HTML] Organic thin film transistors

C Reese, M Roberts, M Ling, Z Bao - Materials today, 2004 - Elsevier
Since John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brattain invented the world's first
transistor in 1947, inorganic field-effect transistors (FETs) have dominated the mainstream …

Survival in dementia and predictors of mortality: a review

S Todd, S Barr, M Roberts… - International journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Dementia is an important cause of mortality and, with the ageing population and
increasing prevalence of dementia, reliable data on prognosis and survival will be of interest …

The decision to export in Colombia: An empirical model of entry with sunk costs

MJ Roberts, JR Tybout - The american economic review, 1997 - JSTOR
Recent theoretical models of entry predict that, in the presence of sunk costs, current market
participation is affected by prior experience. This paper quantifies the effect of prior exporting …

Patterns of firm entry and exit in US manufacturing industries

T Dunne, MJ Roberts, L Samuelson - The RAND journal of Economics, 1988 - JSTOR
This article summarizes the patterns of firm entry, growth, and exit in the four-digit US
manufacturing industries over the period 1963-1982. Entrants are disaggregated into new …

The growth and failure of US manufacturing plants

T Dunne, MJ Roberts… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 1989 - academic.oup.com
This paper examines the patterns of postentry employment growth and failure for over
200,000 plants that entered the US manufacturing sector in the 1967–1977 period. The …

Market entry costs, producer heterogeneity, and export dynamics

S Das, MJ Roberts, JR Tybout - Econometrica, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
As the exchange rate, foreign demand, and production costs evolve, domestic producers are
continually faced with two choices: whether to be an exporter and, if so, how much to export …

R&D investment, exporting, and productivity dynamics

BY Aw, MJ Roberts, DY Xu - American Economic Review, 2011 - aeaweb.org
This paper estimates a dynamic structural model of a producer's decision to invest in R&D
and export, allowing both choices to endogenously affect the future path of productivity …

Productivity and turnover in the export market: micro-level evidence from the Republic of Korea and Taiwan (China)

BY Aw, S Chung, MJ Roberts - The World Bank Economic …, 2000 - academic.oup.com
Widespread empirical evidence indicates that exporting producers have higher productivity
than nonexporters, although the reasons why are unclear. Some analysts argue that …

Patterning organic single-crystal transistor arrays

AL Briseno, SCB Mannsfeld, MM Ling, S Liu, RJ Tseng… - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
Field-effect transistors made of organic single crystals are ideal for studying the charge
transport characteristics of organic semiconductor materials. Their outstanding device …