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Does China improve social welfare after implementing the national volume-based procurement?

open access: yesFrontiers in Pharmacology, 2023
Objective: To explore the changes in social welfare before and after the implementation of the national volume-based procurement (NVBP). Explore whether the NVBP promotes the healthy development of manufacturers under the premise of benefiting patients ...
Huan Wang, Ya-Tong Huo, Qian Zhuang
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Production Controls in Heavy Oil and Bitumen Markets: Surplus Transfer Due to Alberta’s Curtailment Policy

open access: yesEnergies, 2023
In January 2019, the Canadian province of Alberta enacted limits on crude oil and bitumen production. These production controls, a policy referred to as curtailment, represent a shift for a government that historically avoided market intervention.
Brandon Schaufele, Jennifer Winter
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Microeconomic surplus in health care: Applied economic theory in health care in four European countries

open access: yesFrontiers in Pharmacology, 2013
Introduction: In economic theory economic surplus refers to two related quantities: Consumer and producer surplus. Applying this theory to health care convenience could be one way how consumer benefits might manifest itself.
Stefan eWalzer   +5 more
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Hydrogen as Short-Term Flexibility and Seasonal Storage in a Sector-Coupled Electricity Market

open access: yesEnergies, 2023
The rapid expansion of renewable energies has the potential to decarbonize the electricity supply. This is more challenging in difficult-to-electrify sectors. The use of hydrogen provides a massive potential for this issue.
Christoph Loschan   +4 more
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Impact of integration of import tariff policy and strategic programs to increase milk production on the availability of fresh milk in Indonesia [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2021
The gap of growth in milk consumption that is not in line with the growth of milk production has resulted in the need for imports. Indonesian government intervenes in import regulation through the implementation of import tariff policy and strategic ...
Saptati Ratna Ayu, Priyono
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Understanding and Improving Consumer Reactions to Service Bots

open access: yesJournal of Consumer Research, 2023
Many firms are beginning to replace customer service employees with bots, from humanoid service robots to digital chatbots. Using real human-bot interactions in lab and field settings, we study consumers’ evaluations of bot-provided service.
Noah Castelo   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Policy Changes and the Demand for Lottery-Rationed Big Game Hunting Licenses

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2000
Lotteries are commonly used to allocate big game hunting privileges. In this study, lottery demand and consumer surplus are modeled before and after policy changes designed to increase participation.
David Scrogin   +2 more
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Grandfathering or benchmarking: Which is more viable for the manufacturer’s low-carbon activities?

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science, 2022
Under the emissions trading policy, two typical carbon allowance allocation rules of grandfathering and benchmarking are widely adopted in the present carbon markets. Based on the mathematical modeling method, this paper explores which allocation rule is
Zhanjie Wang, Fei Wang, Yongjian Wang
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Cournot Duopoly with Cost Asymmetry and Balanced Budget Specific Taxes and Subsidies

open access: yesGames
This paper extends the Cournot duopoly model by allowing the government to impose firm-dependent specific taxes or subsidies while keeping the budget balanced.
Olivia Kay
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Using of welfare economics instruments for evaluation of agricultural research benefits

open access: yesActa Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2005
Except for direct forms of support of agriculture, including market price support, direct payments and support of agricultural inputs, there also exist many forms of indirect support of agriculture.
Libor Grega
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