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Regional allocation of investment as a hierarchical optimization problem [PDF]

open access: yes, 1981
A new formulation is given for the well-known problem of investment allocation between regions in the framework of a planning model. The case of a dual economy with a Cobb-Douglas production function is worked out in detail with an illustrative numerical
Bagchi, A.   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Staying Offline or Going Online? Managing the Establishment of Service Platforms

open access: yesManagerial and Decision Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study a global game in which consumers and sellers decide whether to join a service platform and interact more efficiently online. Uncertainties about the platform's technology value and users' participation behavior on both market sides cause a coordination problem.
Marit Holler   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Cobb-Douglas function for a continuum model

open access: yesCuadernos de Economía, 2017
This paper introduces two formal equivalent definitions of the Cobb-Douglas function for a continuum model based on a generalization of the Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) function for a continuum under not necessarily constant returns to scale
Javier Humberto Ospina Holguín
doaj   +1 more source

Szimultán Hotelling-modell Cobb–Douglas-hasznosságfüggvénnyel [PDF]

open access: yesKözgazdasági Szemle, 2020
A Hotelling-keretrendszer (1929) napjainkban is igen sikeres. Ennek ellenere nehany feltevese nem magatol ertetődő, peldaul az, hogy a haztartasokat csak rezervacios aruk jellemzi. Ebből adodoan a haztartasok viselkedeset egy Cobb-Douglas-fele hasznossagi fuggvennyel definialjuk. Ez a fogyasztoknak egy folytonos es elasztikus egyeni keresleti fuggvenyt
openaire   +2 more sources

Ecological and Technological Insights to Enhance Rice Production: A Machine Learning Approach for Sustainable Agriculture in Granma, Cuba

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid the quest for sustainable agriculture, this study explores key ecological and technological factors influencing crop production under climate change. We conduct a comprehensive assessment of temperature, biomass, farmer education, renewable energy devices, greenhouse gas emissions and their effects on rice yields in Granma, Cuba, from ...
Afzal Ahmed Dar   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental Total Factor Productivity and the Cost‐Effectiveness of GHG Emission Reduction: The Case of Crop Production in China

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT China's diversified agricultural policies have effectively improved both the yield and environmental performance of the crop sector. Quantifying productivity trends and their drivers is key to formulating strategies for high‐quality and low‐carbon crop development.
Yang Liu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exchange of Goods While Investing Into Production and Safety

open access: yesOperations Research and Decisions, 2013
The tradeoff between production and safety investment is scrutinized for two agents who convert resources into production and safety investment while simultaneously exchanging goods voluntarily.
Kjell Hausken
doaj  

The Impact of Credit and Training on Farmers Efficiency: A Semi‐Parametric Meta‐Frontier Analysis

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers in developing countries face several constraints, which affect their productivity. To reduce these constraints and enhance productivity, government and non‐governmental agencies implement programmes that provide credit and training to farmers.
Anthony Baffoe‐Bonnie   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Cyber-Attack Synergy Model Considering Both Positive and Negative Impacts from Each Attacker

open access: yesInternational Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2015
An emerging attack strategy, collaborative attack, is considered the next generation type of attack. There are only a few models quantifying the synergy of a collaborating attack.
Yu-Shun Wang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hair as sensory skin: sensitive bodies, ritual shaving, and the maintenance of bodily boundaries in Hindu Suriname De la pilosité comme peau sensorielle : corps sensibles, rasage rituel et maintien des limites du corps chez les hindous du Surinam

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Hair is an integral part of the skin's interface and has sensory capacity. It actively contributes to processes of bodily materialization and facilitates transactional exchange with other social actors and environments, particularly regarding energies and vibrations that can be perceived as subtle matter.
Sinah Theres Kloß
wiley   +1 more source

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