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Behaviors against food loss and waste: an analytical index of private policies [PDF]
RAUSP Management JournalPurposeThe paper aims to develop a pioneering assessment index for private policies targeting food loss and waste (FLW) reduction.Design/methodology/approachStarting with a review of seminal works on FLW, identifies variables related to corporate actions
Gessuir Pigatto +5 more
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Can Regional Spending Management Policies Improve Human Development Index?
The Journal of Indonesia Sustainable Development Planning, 2022 The management of expenditure carried out by local governments until now is considered not effective and efficient enough, so the government, through Law Number 1 of 2022 (articles 146 and 147) seeks to increase the effectiveness of regional expenditure ...
Iwa Kartiwa Karpi +3 more
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The Mercantilist Index of Trade Policy [PDF]
International Economic Review, 1999 We introduce an index of trade policy restrictiveness defined as the uniform tariff that maintains the same trade volume as a given tariff/quota structure. Our index overcomes the problems of the trade‐weighted average tariff: It avoids substitution bias, correctly accounts for general equilibrium transfers, and takes import volume instead of welfare ...
Anderson, James E., Neary, J. Peter
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Water Policy, 2022 Water policies play a critical role in good water governance and sustainable water development. The evaluation of water policies helps improve the quality of water policy systems and water governance.
Nina Wang +4 more
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Fast Two-Stage Computation of an Index Policy for Multi-Armed Bandits with Setup Delays
Mathematics, 2020 We consider the multi-armed bandit problem with penalties for switching that include setup delays and costs, extending the former results of the author for the special case with no switching delays.
José Niño-Mora
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Wage indexation and the monetary policy regime [PDF]
Journal of Macroeconomics, 2014 Abstract We estimate a New Keynesian wage Phillips curve for a panel of 24 OECD countries and allow the degree of wage indexation to past inflation to vary according to structural characteristics. We find that the degree of wage indexation is significantly lower for countries with an inflation target. However, this effect vanishes when we control for
Selien De Schryder +2 more
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On index policies for stochastic minsum scheduling [PDF]
Operations Research Letters, 2019 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Franziska Eberle +3 more
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Effective alcohol policies and lifetime abstinence An analysis of the International Alcohol Control policy index [PDF]
, 2022 Introduction Alcohol abstinence remains common among adults globally, although low and middle-income countries are experiencing declines in abstention. The effect of alcohol policies on lifetime abstinence is poorly understood.
Callinan, Sarah +14 more
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A Fast-Pivoting Algorithm for Whittle’s Restless Bandit Index
Mathematics, 2020 The Whittle index for restless bandits (two-action semi-Markov decision processes) provides an intuitively appealing optimal policy for controlling a single generic project that can be active (engaged) or passive (rested) at each decision epoch, and ...
José Niño-Mora
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Quantitative evaluation of China’s shipping decarbonization policies: The PMC-Index approach
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 In the past few decades, ship-source GHG emissions have increased significantly. As a large country with massive shipping activities, China has issued a number of governmental policies with the aim of promoting shipping decarbonization and achieving ...
Qiang Zhang +3 more
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