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Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte, Matthew H. Langholtz, Chad M. Hellwinckel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The life care annuity: enhancing product features and refining pricing methods [PDF]

Decisions in Economics and Finance
The state-of-the-art proposes life care annuities, that have been recently designed as variable annuity contracts with Long-Term Care payouts and Guaranteed Lifelong Withdrawal Benefits. In this paper, we propose more general features for these insurance
G. Apicella, Marcellino Gaudenzi, Andrea Molent   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sustainability Assessment of Circular Strategies in the Agri‐Food Industry: The Case of Olive Mills' By‐Product Valorization

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study integrates multidimensional sustainability indicators into a unified assessment approach to evaluate circular strategies in agri‐food industry businesses. This methodological approach is applied to empirically examine the case of the olive oil industry's by‐product valorization.
David Polonio, Rubén Granado‐Díaz, José A. Gómez‐Limón, Anastasio J. Villanueva   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Moderating Role of Money Attitudes in the Relationship Between Personality Traits and Early Pension Withdrawal

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how money attitudes moderate the relationship between personality traits and early pension withdrawal behaviour in the context of South Africa's new Two‐Pot retirement system. Drawing on structural equation modelling with data from over 5000 retirement fund members, whether Money Prudence and Money Anxiety condition the ...
Paul Prinn Nixon, Evan Gilbert
wiley   +1 more source

Variational inequality arising from variable annuity with mean reversion environment

Journal of Inequalities and Applications, 2023
In this paper, we study a variational inequality arising from variable annuity (VA) to find the optimal surrender strategy for a VA investor when the underlying asset follows a mean reverting process.
Junkee Jeon, Geonwoo Kim
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
wiley   +1 more source

Judicial Review: Substance and Procedure

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
In this article we distinguish two questions about judicial review. First, substance: what acts or decisions are properly subject to the grounds of review? Second, procedure: what acts or decisions are properly reviewable through the judicial review procedure? Then we settle both.
Adam Perry, Angelo Ryu
wiley   +1 more source

Why Settle for the Status Quo? A Critical Assessment of Pension Liability Measurement Under IFRS and US GAAP

Abacus, EarlyView.
Relevance and faithful representation are identified by standard‐setters as fundamental qualitative characteristics for useful accounting information. We critically assess whether current pension measurement guidance under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and US generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) results in pension ...
Divya Anantharaman, Darren Henderson
wiley   +1 more source

Mutual fund director compensation

Journal of Financial Research, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine director compensation using a large sample of hand‐compiled U.S. mutual fund data. We find that director compensation is positively correlated with observable productive characteristics—workload, experience, and demographics—that capture the benefits from the directors’ monitoring effort.
John Adams, Sattar Mansi, Takeshi Nishikawa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Equivalent circuit representation of a vortex‐induced vibration‐based energy harvester using a semi‐empirical lumped parameter approach

International Journal of Energy Research, 2020
Small‐scale wind energy harvesting from vortex‐induced vibrations (VIV) has been introduced in recent years as a renewable power source for microelectronics and wireless sensors.
Junlei Wang, Lihua Tang, Liya Zhao, Guobiao Hu, R. Song, Kun Xu   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source