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Economic Impact of Sustainability in Wine Sector: A Systematic Literature Review

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability has become a key issue in the wine sector, raising questions about its compatibility with firms' economic performance. Despite growing attention to environmental and social practices, evidence on their economic implications remains fragmented.
Valentina Di Chiara, Eugenio Pomarici, Leonardo Cei   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Programmable Flocks: Hierarchical Swarm Control via Dynamic Parameter Injection

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
We present a method for the control of robot swarms which allows the shaping and the translation of patterns of simple robots (“smart particles”), using two types of devices. These two types represent a hierarchy: a larger group of simple, oblivious robots (which we call the workers) that is governed by simple local attraction forces and a smaller ...
Vivek Shankar Varadharajan, Giovanni Beltrame   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Judicial versus Private Auctions: Better without Protection?

Estudios de Economía, 2015
Using a sample of 680 and 1,300 judicial and private auctions respectively, we analyze the effect on the wealth of those the law is intended to protect of different regulations applicable to each type of auctions.
Ricardo D. Paredes, Andrés Crisosto K., Philippe Martí C.   +2 more
doaj  

Overview of the auction mechanisms for pricing and allocation of the cloud provider’s resources [PDF]

Tehnika, 2017
Comprehensive development of cloud computing requires improvement of appropriate mechanisms for cloud provider’s resource allocation and pricing. Considering the characteristics of cloud resources and the fact that demand for cloud resources is not ...
Mikavica Branka D., Kostić-Ljubisavljević Aleksandra M., Đogatović-Radonjić Vesna M.   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Uncovering renewable energy policy impact channels on land values, the local farm structure, and farmland heterogeneity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (REA), enacted in 2000 and subsequently amended, subsidized national renewable energy production with fixed feed‐in tariffs for renewable energy sources (RE) from wind, solar, and biogas. Empirical studies suggest that the policy was creating windfall effects for landowners and attribute farmland use ...
Lars Isenhardt, Stefan Seifert, Saskia Wolff, Tobia Lakes, Marten Graubner, Axel Werwatz, Silke Hüttel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Speculation in Standard Auctions with Resale [PDF]

We analyze the role resale creates for zero-value bidders, called speculators, in standard auctions with symmetric independent private values buyers. English/second-price auctions always have equilibria with active resale markets and positive profits for
Rod Garratt, Thomas Troger
core   +2 more sources

Draft Auctions

CoRR, 2013
We introduce draft auctions, which is a sequential auction format where at each iteration players bid for the right to buy items at a fixed price. We show that draft auctions offer an exponential improvement in social welfare at equilibrium over sequential item auctions where predetermined items are auctioned at each time step.
Nikhil R. Devanur, Jamie Morgenstern, Vasilis Syrgkanis   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Freedom dreaming of migrant justice: Critical reflections on counterspaces and institutional violence in the university

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract US universities are built on stolen land and sustained through hierarchies of power that produce what migrant justice scholars name as b/order regimes. As institutions that claim to be sites of learning and inclusion, universities are fraught with contradictions as simultaneously sites of dispossession, exclusion, and control.
Sara L. Buckingham, Jesica Siham Fernández   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Consumer Acceptance of Enabling Agri‐Food Technologies for Sustainable Food Systems: Evidence From Italy

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The transition toward more sustainable and innovative agricultural systems increasingly relies on the integration of digital and enabling technologies (KETs). Although the technical and productive aspects of these innovations have been widely investigated, consumer acceptance remains less understood, despite its key role in fostering their ...
Giulio Cascone, Giuseppe Timpanaro
wiley   +1 more source

Advancing Smart Sustainable Seaports: Auction-Based Truck Appointment System for Automated Container Terminal

IEEE Access
This study proposes alternative solutions to the container pick-up reservation problem involving container terminals and drayage operators by introducing two variations of a modified auction mechanism—cost-based and service-oriented—into ...
Meditya Wasesa, Ardian Rizaldi, Andries Stam, Rob Zuidwijk, Eric van Heck   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source