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Cost Overruns in Large-scale Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Explanations and Their Theoretical Embeddedness

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, 2010
Managing large-scale transportation infrastructure projects is difficult due to frequent misinformation about the costs which results in large cost overruns that often threaten the overall project viability.
Chantal C. Cantarelli   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Political Participation Amid Mass Incarceration

open access: yes, 2023
Contact with the carceral state—ranging from police stops to prison time—is a frequent experience in the United States, particularly in communities marginalized on the basis of race and class. In recent years, political scientists have sought to measure
White, Ariel R
core   +1 more source

How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Extreme Weather Events and Consumer Food Responses

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates consumer food responses to Hurricanes Helene and Milton, which affected a swath of the Southeastern U.S. in 2024. Using representative consumer survey data from six affected states, we analyze 10 distinct food responses classified into ex ante and ex post responses, and examine their associations with food insufficiency
Ahmad Zia Wahdat, Joseph Balagtas
wiley   +1 more source

What Really Drives Agri‐Environment‐Climate Measures' Adoption? Mandatory Requirements, Behavioral Traits, and Structural Factors in the CAP Green Architecture

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT To increase farmer adoption of green practices, the EU Common Agricultural Policy includes both mandatory (conditionality) and voluntary instruments (eco‐schemes–ECS– and more demanding, multi‐annual agri‐environment‐climate measures –AECM–). Building on the experiment of Barreiro‐Hurle et al.
L. Sanchez‐Mata   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cryopreservation of crop species in Europe

open access: yes, 2011
This book represents contributions, oral as well as posters, of the final meeting of COST Action 871, CRYOPLANET (Cryopreservation of crop species in Europe) held in Angers. Local organizers of the meeting were Dr. Agnès Grapin (AGROCAMPUS OUEST - Angers)
Grapin, Agnès   +5 more
core   +3 more sources

State Ownership and Labor Cost Stickiness: The Role of Free Cash Flows [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش‌های تجربی حسابداری
The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of free cash flows on the relationship between government ownership and labor cost stickiness while providing evidence of how non-economic considerations and socio-political goals influence cost behavior.
Azam Pouryousof   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of Corporate Governance on the Cost of Capital: Empirical Evidence from the Non-Financial Sector of Pakistan

open access: yesJournal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies, 2021
Purpose: The study looked at the effect of corporate governance on the cost of capital of firms in Pakistan's non-financial sector. Design/Methodology/Approach: The study sample is comprised of balanced data set of 175 non-financial companies listed ...
Muhammad Bilal Ijaz   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Promoting Healthier Drinking: Evidence From a Vignette Experiment on Contextual and Informational Drivers of Dealcoholized Wine Choices

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Growing demand for healthier beverages is driving innovation in the wine sector, with dealcoholized wine emerging as a promising alternative. However, little is known about the contextual conditions under which consumers would choose dealcoholized wine, particularly in countries with strong wine traditions. To fill this gap, this work examines
Giovanna Piracci   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Discursive Frames of Political Psychology

open access: yes, 2011
The aim of this article is to apply elements of contemporary social theory to the major theoretical, methodological, and ideological divisions across political psychology and to consider both the origins and the impact of a range of theories and models ...
Nesbitt-Larking, Paul   +5 more
core   +1 more source

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