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Delay discounting and utility for money or weight loss
Obesity Science & Practice, 2017 Summary Objective Obesity is related to a bias towards smaller immediate over larger delayed rewards. This bias is typically examined by studying single commodity discounting. However, weight loss often involves choices among multiple commodities. To our
Y. Y. Sze +3 more
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Life cycle cost of biomass power plant: Monte Carlo simulation of investment [PDF]
Ekonomika Poljoprivrede (1979), 2017 Assessment of life cycle cost is considered as an important instrument for designing and evaluating success of every project. The aim of this work is to determine the precise impact of the investment costs and future operating and maintenance costs of ...
Odavić Petrana +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar +2 more
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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
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Receivables discounting in the enterprise accounting policy
Економіка, управління та адміністрування, 2020 The economic activity of an enterprise is carried out in accordance with the rules that are formed in the regulatory legislation and internal documents, such as: charter, accounting policy, risk management policy, contracts, regulations, orders, etc.
I. Tralo
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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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Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 2019 Discounting rate refers to people’s tendency to reduce the rate of subjective value from delayed benefit over time. The current study investigates the relationship among belief in a just world (BJW), sense of control, and discounting rate, especially the
Jiaxi Peng +4 more
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Discounted-Sum Automata with Multiple Discount Factors
Logical Methods in Computer ScienceDiscounting the influence of future events is a key paradigm in economics and it is widely used in computer-science models, such as games, Markov decision processes (MDPs), reinforcement learning, and automata. While a single game or MDP may allow for several different discount factors, nondeterministic discounted-sum automata (NDAs) were only studied ...
Udi Boker, Guy Hefetz
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Who Are the Consumers of European Farmers' Markets? A Cross‐Country Analysis
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT With substantial growth in the number of farmers' markets (FMs) in developed countries, the number of consumers visiting FMs is also increasing. This study comparatively assesses the consumers of FMs in three European countries where FMs traditionally play a distinctive role in food supply chains.
Áron Török +6 more
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Discounting and Confidence [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 The paper analyzes the discount rate under uncertainty. The analy- sis complements the probabilistic characterization of uncertainty by a measure of confidence. Special cases of the model comprise discounting under smooth am- biguity aversion as well as discounting under a disentanglement of risk aversion from aversion to intertemporal substitution ...
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