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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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Intertemporal excess burden, bequest motives, and the budget deficit [PDF]
The author aims to empirically determine the significant factors that affect the levels of budget deficits of central governments across time and across countries.
Derek Hung Chiat Chen
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Assessing the Impact of Promotions on Consumer Purchasing Behavior During Crises
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding how households modify their food expenditure decisions during times of crisis is essential because consumer purchasing behavior frequently changes during these times. This study looks at these behavioral shifts during the COVID‐19 pandemic, concentrating on how price sensitivity and response to sales promotions changed over the ...
Wafa Mehaba, José María Gil
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Does protection harden budget constraints ?. [PDF]
In this paper we analyse the effects of soft budget constraints in an international context. Firstly, we show that soft budget constraints in an exporting country lead to higher levels of trade protection in the recipient country.
Everaert, G, Vandenbussche, Hylke
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Jurnal Akuntansi Aktual, 2019 This study aims to determine the effect of human resources capacity, budget planning, politi-cal budgeting, and public transparency on the synchronization between Regional Revenues and expen-ditures budget (APBD) document and General Policy of Regional ...
Nurhidayati Hikmah +2 more
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Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.This study analyzed log data from the Japanese hinotori surgical robot to characterize manipulation performed by experienced surgeons in robotic surgery. Compared with less‐experienced surgeons, the experienced group demonstrated shorter task durations, reduced travel distances with the right instrument (Arm3), faster and more dynamically modulated ...
Masaki Saito +11 more
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Institutions, politics, and macroeconomic performance : on incomplete information in political agency games [PDF]
This thesis analyses the interactions between politics, institutions, and policy outcomes using a political agency framework with incomplete information.
Le Borgne, Eric
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Are hard budget constraints for sub-national governments always efficient? [PDF]
, 2004 In fiscally decentralized countries, sub-national governments (SNGs) may face soft budget constraints and consequently invest and borrow too much. The policy literature claims that, with competitive capital markets and central governments imposing hard ...
Besfamille , Martin, Lockwood, Ben
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Automated generative process synthesis via transformer‐based dual‐loop simulation and optimization
AIChE Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This study presents a novel framework for automated generative process synthesis, addressing the complexity of simultaneously optimizing discrete topologies and continuous operating variables. To overcome conventional superstructure limitations, we propose a dual‐loop architecture integrating generative transformers with rigorous process ...
Yeong Woo Son +4 more
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The Political Economy of the Budget Process: The Case of Ecuador [PDF]
This study presents the case of Ecuador. The report describes the main actors (formal and informal) involved in the budget-making process, and presents evidence regarding the main political and economic determinants of fiscal performance.
Andrés Mejía Acosta +2 more
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