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Should environmental taxes be imposed on agriculture? Analysis from the welfare perspective

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023
IntroductionEnvironmental taxation is an essential regulatory tool for governments seeking to optimize agricultural production, enhance the environment, and guarantee food safety.
Zheng Zhang, Guangpu Wu, Ying Guo, Xiaran Zhang   +3 more
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Consumer surplus and budget constrained preference maximization: A note

Managerial Economics, 2020
The paper attempts to rectify what appear to be popular but elementary misconceptions about the concept of consumer surplus in the context of Marshallian demand curves. It is primarily addressed to teachers of microeconomics at the undergraduate level or
Somdeb Lahiri
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Incorporating transportation network modeling tools within transportation economic impact studies of disasters

Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English ed. Online), 2014
Transportation system disruption due to a disaster results in "ripple effects" throughout the entire transportation system of a metropolitan region.
Yi Wen, Li Zhang, Zhitong Huang, Mingzhou Jin   +3 more
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A Bundle Pricing Approach for Mobile Telecommunication Services: Method and Data Analysis [PDF]

Journal of Emerging Trends in Marketing and Management, 2023
The bundling of goods/services is a technique many firms use to influence product demand, generate higher revenues, and enhance consumer surplus. In the telecommunications industry, offering incentive bundles of different mobile phone services is an ...
Marjan Izadpanah, Ali Vaezi
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Consumer Surplus in the Digital Economy: Estimating the Value of Increased Product Variety at Online Booksellers

Management Sciences, 2003
We present a framework and empirical estimates that quantify the economic impact of increased product variety made available through electronic markets.
Erik Brynjolfsson, Yu Jeffrey Hu, Michael D. Smith   +2 more
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Nonmarket Economic Valuation and "The Economist’s Fallacy"

Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2009
It is important that noneconomists understand and consider three key points regarding the use of economic cost-benefit analysis. First, economists undertaking applied cost-benefit analyses use expected values by necessity in forward-looking models ...
Murray A Rudd
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Structural biology of ferritin nanocages

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Ferritin is a conserved iron‐storage protein that sequesters iron as a ferric mineral core within a nanocage, protecting cells from oxidative damage and maintaining iron homeostasis. This review discusses ferritin biology, structure, and function, and highlights recent cryo‐EM studies revealing mechanisms of ferritinophagy, cellular iron uptake, and ...
Eloise Mastrangelo, Flavio Di Pisa
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Personalized Pricing and Consumer Welfare

Journal of Political Economy, 2022
We study the welfare implications of personalized pricing implemented with machine learning. We use data from a randomized controlled pricing field experiment to construct personalized prices and validate these in the field.
Jean-Pierre Dubé, S. Misra
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
wiley   +1 more source

Manufacturer Strategies for Blockchain Adoption and Sales Mode Selection with a Dual-Purpose Platform

Systems
This study examines how a low-carbon manufacturer strategically adopts blockchain technology and selects sales modes with a dual-purpose e-commerce platform that focuses on both profit and consumer surplus.
Lirong Wu, Congying Duan, Qingkai Ji
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