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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study advances the literature on sustainable urban agriculture and alternative sustainable food production systems, which have gained momentum due to the need to strengthen regional food supply chains and meet the growing urban demand for fresh food. Indoor agriculture (IA) holds promise for year‐round cultivation of fresh produce even in
Joseph Seong +2 more
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Temporal discounting and self-continuity: Age-dependent patterns and implications
Acta PsychologicaIntertemporal decision-making is a common aspect of everyday life. People often prefer receiving a smaller immediate reward rather than the larger one that comes later, a behaviour known as temporal discounting.
Lulu Liu +3 more
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Hyperbolic Discounting Is Rational: Valuing the Far Future with Uncertain Discount Rates [PDF]
Conventional economics supposes that agents value the present vs. the future using an exponential discounting function. In contrast, experiments with animals and humans suggest that agents are better described as hyperbolic discounters, whose discount ...
J. Doyne Farmer, John Geanakoplos
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability labels can help support consumers select more socially and environmentally friendly options, thereby enhancing returns for conscientious producers and promoting the transition to a more sustainable food system. However, consumer confusion regarding labels' meaning undermines their effectiveness.
Monika Hartmann +4 more
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Hyperbolic discounting may be time consistent [PDF]
Using dynamic programming methodology, the paper analyzes the most general conditions for an additive utility functional to represent time consistent preferences.
Nicolas Drouhin
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study analyzes the effects of value co‐creation and creation of shared value in agricultural input marketing. This study used a sample of 178 agricultural companies in Costa Rica. The data were analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS‐SEM) with SMART PLS software. Our findings reveal the significant influence
Luis Ricardo Solís‐Rivera +1 more
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Translational PsychiatryDespite substantial efforts to unravel cognitive heterogeneity in ADHD, the examination of motivational variability, particularly delay aversion, remains limited.
Pilar Fernández-Martín +5 more
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Latent Process Heterogeneity in Discounting Behavior [PDF]
We show that observed choices in discounting experiments are consistent with roughly one-half of the subjects using exponential discounting and one-half using quasi-hyperbolic discounting.
E. Elisabet Rutström +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines food price inflation rate convergence among EU27 Member States from 2005 to 2024, focusing on structural breaks, external shocks, and regional disparities. Using panel unit root tests and club convergence analysis, the findings reveal no overall convergence but identify multiple convergence clubs.
Tibor Bareith, Imre Fertő
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THE NECESSITY OF SPECIAL DISCOUNTING TREATMENT FOR NATURE TO ASSESS THE FLOW OF INVESTMENTS
Geography, Environment, Sustainability, 2010 The purpose of the paper is to justify special natural discount rates in the efficiency assessment of conservation activities. Nowadays, the social rate of discounting suggested by D. Pearce is often used.
Alexey Kotko
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