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Exploring the Benefits of Mass Timber Construction in the Workplace: A Novel Primer for Research

open access: yesBuildings
Mass timber construction has recently gained popularity due to its outstanding environmental benefits and building performance, which hold revolutionary potential for the construction industry.
Stephen Whyte   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source

Jean Tirole: Mathematician-Economist-Humanist

open access: yesФинансы: теория и практика, 2019
Jean Tirole, the Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences in 2014, who in November 2018 visited the Financial university in Moscow, presents one of the most striking examples of the evolution currently experienced by some modern economists. He started his
Z. Mierzwa
doaj   +1 more source

An Introduction to the Special Issue on “Behavioural Economics, Consumer Policy, and Consumer Law” [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Consumer Policy, 2011
European consumer policy—coupled with the European Economic Constitution and European consumer law—is based on an assumption of rational-acting consumers and suppliers and is deeply rooted in the information paradigm. The information paradigm indicates that asymmetric information can be an impediment to welfare-enhancing consumer decision making.
Micklitz, Hans-W.   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Changes in Alcohol Retail Laws and Foot Traffic at Liquor Stores

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study how expanding alcohol availability at grocery and convenience stores affects consumer traffic in liquor stores by leveraging recent changes in state‐level alcohol distribution laws in a difference‐in‐difference quasi‐experimental design.
Nathan Palardy   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate Change Agricultural Comparative Advantage and the US Trade Balance

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Current science indicates that warming and elevated atmospheric CO2 will have ambiguous results for crop productivity depending on crop type and geographic location, whereas increased heat stress makes livestock and human labor less productive.
Elizabeth A. Fraysse   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Data from an International Multi-Centre Study of Statistics and Mathematics Anxieties and Related Variables in University Students (the SMARVUS Dataset)

open access: yesJournal of Open Psychology Data, 2023
This large, international dataset contains survey responses from N = 12,570 students from 100 universities in 35 countries, collected in 21 languages.
Jenny Terry   +154 more
doaj   +1 more source

Synergies in Agricultural Biodiversity Conservation: Decomposing the Interaction Between Nature Parks and Agri‐Environment Schemes

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding how policy instruments with overlapping goals interact is crucial for leveraging their synergies. This study explores the mechanisms for regional nature parks (a form of protected areas that impose no restrictions on agriculture) to enhance the adoption of biodiversity‐conserving agri‐environment schemes (AES) in Switzerland ...
Yanbing Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Challenges of implementing inclusive city policies in three European port cities

open access: yesnpj Urban Sustainability
This study examines the practical realities of implementing inclusive city policies in three European port cities—Antwerp, Rotterdam, and Gothenburg—through a comparative case study.
Run Zhao   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Economic Analysis of the Rationality of the Collaboration Agreement

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Direito Processual Penal, 2019
This article questions whether the criminal collaboration, as on the article 4 from Law nº 12.850/2013, is an economically rational decision to the defendant.
Tiago Kalkmann
doaj   +1 more source

Tele-dentistry, its trends, scope, and future framework in oral medicine; a scoping review during January 1999 to December 2021

open access: yesArchives of Public Health, 2023
Background Tele-dentistry has been increasingly used for different purposes of visit, consultation, triage, screening, and training in oral medicine. This study aims to determine the main facilitators, barriers, and participants` viewpoints of applying ...
Fatemeh Niknam   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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