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Opportunity Costs of Forest Conservation in Nepal
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022 Forest biomass may vary by species composition, location, management regimes, and management interventions. To assess the variation in biomass production by management regimes, we conducted a study in three physiographic regions (mid-hills, Siwaliks and ...
Rajesh K. Rai +5 more
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Promises and Opportunity Cost [PDF]
, 2020 This paper experimentally investigates the hypothesis that promise-keeping behavior is affected by the opportunities that a counterpart foregoes by relying on the promise. We present two motivational mechanisms that could drive such an effect. One is that people dislike causing harm through a promise, and the natural way to measure such harm is to take
Sengupta, Arjun, Vanberg, Christoph
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, 2021 Reducing emissions due to deforestation is considered a low-cost option for mitigating climate change. However, the recent literature suggests higher opportunity costs because of specific deforestation drivers, which render reducing emissions from ...
Xi Li, Xufang Zhang, Hongqiang Yang
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Agrarian potentials in the reindustrialization of Serbia: Import of inputs and the opportunity costs of development [PDF]
Ekonomika Poljoprivrede (1979), 2016 After transitional debacles and failures, structural degradation and recession, reindustrialization is imposed as a crucial stage in the economic development of Serbia. The production-market potentials of the agro-complex (as a complex economic subsystem
Milanović Milan R. +2 more
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Household economy, forest dependency & opportunity costs of conservation in eastern rainforests of Madagascar. [PDF]
Sci Data, 2018 The Government of Madagascar is trying to reduce deforestation and conserve biodiversity through creating new protected areas in the eastern rainforests.
Poudyal M +4 more
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Journal of Small Business Management, 2020 This article studies the relationship between working capital management and firm operating performance and focuses on the moderating effect of size. We use a large sample of 56,221 small, medium, and large firms from France, Germany, and Italy, and our ...
Vivien Lefebvre
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Economic and Political Determinants of Terrorism in Selected European Countries
Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2020 In this paper, we aim to assess the connection between terrorist attacks and socioeconomic and political indicators through an empirical study of selected 16 European countries.
Martin Tejkal +2 more
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Fatigue, boredom and objectively measured smartphone use at work
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Nowadays, many people take short breaks with their smartphone at work. The decision whether to continue working or to take a smartphone break is a so-called labour versus leisure decision. Motivational models predict that people are more likely to switch
Jonas Dora +4 more
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The Temporal Dynamics of Opportunity Costs: A Normative Account of Cognitive Fatigue and Boredom
bioRxiv, 2020 Cognitive fatigue and boredom are two phenomenological states widely associated with limitations in cognitive control. In this paper, we present a rational analysis of the temporal structure of controlled behavior, which provides a new framework for ...
Mayank Agrawal +3 more
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Profitability of family farms directed at crop production [PDF]
Ekonomika Poljoprivrede (1979), 2014 The efficiency in crop production depends on, on the one hand, achieved yields and selling prices (production value) and, on the other hand, on the incurred production costs.
Munćan Petar +2 more
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