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Multidimensional Approaches to Ranking State‐Level Rurality to Enhance Comparisons Across States

open access: yesThe Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Single indicators such as rural population percentage can misrepresent a state's rural character, leading to flawed policy comparisons and resource allocation. This study introduces a multidimensional rurality index that combines population share, land area, and population density to create a more comprehensive ranking of US states ...
DANIEL BASLOCK, NARI YOO
wiley   +1 more source

Insights from the Presidential Addresses to the Agricultural Economics Society

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Society's published presidential addresses have embraced a wide range of subject matter, reflecting a ‘road well travelled’ in agricultural economics. The areas covered include the development and use of data and statistics, lessons from history, sectoral analysis, land economics, international trade and international development.
David Blandford
wiley   +1 more source

Asymmetric Platform Oligopoly

open access: yesThe RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We propose a tractable model of asymmetric platform oligopoly with logit demand in which users from two distinct groups are subject to within‐group and cross‐group network effects and decide which platform to join. We characterize the equilibrium when platforms manage user access by setting participation fees for each user group.
Martin Peitz, Susumu Sato
wiley   +1 more source

Buyer‐Optimal Platform Design

open access: yesThe RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A platform matches a unit mass of sellers, each owning a single product of heterogeneous quality, to a unit mass of buyers with differing valuations for unit‐quality. After matching, sellers make take‐it‐or‐leave‐it price‐offers to buyers. Initially, valuations of buyers are only known to them and the platform, but sellers make inferences from
Daniele Condorelli, Balazs Szentes
wiley   +1 more source

Stable Price Dispersion under Heterogeneous Buyer Consideration

open access: yesThe RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study the pricing of homogeneous products sold to customers who consider different sets of suppliers. We identify prices that are stable in the sense that no firm wishes to undercut a rival or to raise its price when rivals are able to respond by offering special deals.
David P. Myatt, David Ronayne
wiley   +1 more source

Archived multi-objective simulated annealing transient electromagnetic inversion. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep
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