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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Freshwater availability is a critical climate change challenge in coastal delta regions. This challenge requires a transformative change toward circular water management. While experimentation and collaborative governance are recognized as enablers of transformative change, their interaction remains complex and insufficiently understood ...
Flavia Simona Albu Cosoveanu +3 more
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Fraud, investments and liability regimes in payment platforms [PDF]
In this paper, we discuss how fraud liability regimes impact the price structure that is chosen by a monopolistic payment platform, in a setting where merchants can invest in fraud detection technologies.
Creti, Anna, Verdier, Marianne
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Credit card fraud and detection techniques: a review [PDF]
, 2009 Fraud is one of the major ethical issues in the credit card industry. The main aims are, firstly, to identify the different types of credit card fraud, and, secondly, to review alternative techniques that have been used in fraud detection.
Abdou, Hussein +8 more
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Epilepsia Open, EarlyView.Abstract Objective Epilepsy is a common condition associated with significant morbidity, mortality, and costs. Poor documentation of seizures is a major challenge in epilepsy care. Objective seizure counting with mobile devices may mitigate this challenge and improve patient management.
Matthew McWilliam +8 more
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E-COMMERCE WITH ONLINE PAYMENT THROUGH BANK CARD [PDF]
Annals of the University of Petrosani: Economics, 2010 The e-commerce has become a routine part of human life because it offers major advantages: convenience (it’s no longer necessary to visit a store to be able to shop), efficiency (the buyer can visit several virtual shops in a very short time, the crowd ...
OANA ŞEITAN +2 more
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Toward a theory of merchant credit card acceptance [PDF]
In this article, we construct a two-period model to investigate what market conditions would support a credit card equilibrium given two commonly observed credit card pricing conventions consumers rarely are charged higher prices for using their credit ...
Ted To, Sujit Chakravorti
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Nowcasting World Trade With Machine Learning: A Three‐Step Approach
Journal of Forecasting, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We nowcast world trade using machine learning, distinguishing between tree‐based methods (random forest and gradient boosting) and their linear‐regression‐based counterparts (macroeconomic random forest and gradient boosting—linear). While much less used in the literature, the latter are found to outperform not only the tree‐based techniques ...
Menzie Chinn +2 more
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A Study of the Interrelated Bilateral Transactions in Credit Card Networks [PDF]
Over the last decade, consumers have tripled their use of credit cards as more merchants have increased their acceptance of them. This increase suggests that incentives in today's marketplace favor greater credit card use by consumers and acceptance by ...
Alpa Shah, Sujit Chakravorti
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Health Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Outpatient specialist physicians in France can work either in the regulated sector, where they charge the regulated fee, or in the unregulated sector, where they set their own fees above the regulated fee. This context provides a unique opportunity to estimate the extent to which patients value services provided under balance billing.
Karine Lamiraud, Radu Vranceanu
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Credit card use after the final mortgage payment: does the magnitude of income shocks matter? [PDF]
We test the hypothesis that consumption smoothing occurs after large, but not small, expected future income shocks. Even though this hypothesis has often been discussed, formal evidence in support of it is rare.
Scholnick, Barry
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