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Regional Differences in U.S. Consumer Preferences for Native Woody Shrubs With Varying Aesthetic Characteristics

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native plants offer a variety of aesthetic (e.g., fall colour, fruit, flowers) and functional benefits (e.g., pollinator friendly, wildlife friendly, water management). How these benefits influence consumer choice and perceived value of native versus introduced plants is not well understood.
Alicia Rihn, Ariana P. Torres, Sue Barton, Bridget K. Behe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating Urban Park Utility in Seoul: A Distance-to-Area Discounting Model

Land
This study proposes a novel method to assess urban park accessibility by incorporating perceived utility based on both park area and distance. Departing from conventional models that treat accessibility as a function of geometric proximity alone, we define park utility as a distance-discounted benefit of park area, thereby allowing for a more ...
Gyoungju Lee, Youngeun Kang
openaire   +2 more sources

A theory of endogenous time preference, and discounted utility anomalies [PDF]

We explain essentially all known discounted utility anomalies as artefacts of the optimizing behavior of an individual with a time- separable utility function, who perceives a good as a source of a stochastic consumption stream, and believes that she can
Svetlana Boyarchenko, Sergei Levendorskii   +1 more
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Does a Specialized Niche Market Vegetable Processor Enjoy Bargaining Power?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agribusiness companies may achieve competitive advantage through specialization within niche markets. One such niche is the fresh‐cut fruit and vegetable market, which has been steadily growing in Germany. This study examines whether the specialization of a German fresh‐cut producer grants it with market power within this niche market.
Nikolas Bublik, Franziska Mittag, Laura Hellstern, Sebastian Hess   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Maximizing Banking Profit on a Random Time Interval

Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2007
We study the stochastic dynamics of banking items such as assets, capital, liabilities and profit. A consideration of these items leads to the formulation of a maximization problem that involves endogenous variables such as depository consumption, the ...
J. Mukuddem-Petersen, M. A. Petersen, I. M. Schoeman, B. A. Tau   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Characterization of a Cournot–Nash Equilibrium for a Fishery Model with Fuzzy Utilities

Journal of Mathematics
The article deals with the extensions of discrete-time games with infinite time horizon and their application in a fuzzy context to fishery models. The criteria for these games are the total discounted utility and the average utility in a fishing problem.
R. Israel Ortega-Gutiérrez, Raúl Montes-de-Oca, Hugo Cruz-Suárez   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

SOME PROPERTIES OF THE VARIATIONAL PROBLEMS OF OPTIMAL CONTROL OF CONSUMPTION

Статистика и экономика, 2016
ARTICLE RETRACTEDIn this paper we study the General patterns of models based on variational methods in various problems of optimal control of consumption: decisionmaking in the management of the household, as well as models of the economic dynamics of ...
Alla Yu. Meyerson, Alexander P. Chernyaev   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cost‐Benefit Analysis of the European Union Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism in Fertilizer Trade

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), launching 2026, will charge EU importers for embedded carbon emissions, aiming to reduce emissions but raising import costs. Shifts in demand following implementation may reduce carbon emissions, but importers will bear the cost of increased prices.
Natalie Crisci, Md Deluair Hossen, Andrew Muhammad, Seong‐Hoon Cho   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy is cost effective for primary prevention patients in Taiwan: An analysis from the Improve SCA trial.

PLoS ONE, 2020
ObjectiveImplantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) for primary prevention (PP) of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) are well-established but underutilized globally. The Improve SCA study has identified a cohort of patients called 1.5 primary prevention (1.5PP)
Reece Holbrook, Lucas Higuera, Kael Wherry, Dave Phay, Yu-Cheng Hsieh, Kuo-Hung Lin, Yen-Bin Liu   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source