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What matters for agricultural trade? Assessing the role of trade deal provisions using machine learning

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper employs machine learning to determine which preferential trade agreement (PTA) provisions are relevant to agricultural trade patterns and the factors that may influence their adoption. Utilizing the three‐way gravity model, we apply plug‐in Lasso regularized regression to pinpoint predictive PTA provisions for agricultural trade ...
Stepan Gordeev   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

New Industrial Conditions of Sustainable Development of Mineral Resource Dependent Russian Economy in High Volatility Conditions [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2019
The conditions for the transition to sustainable development and new industrial transformation for resource-dependent countries are closely linked.
Skryl Tatiana   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Machine Learning Featurizations for AI Hacking of Political Systems [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
What would the inputs be to a machine whose output is the destabilization of a robust democracy, or whose emanations could disrupt the political power of nations? In the recent essay "The Coming AI Hackers," Schneier (2021) proposed a future application of artificial intelligences to discover, manipulate, and exploit vulnerabilities of social, economic,
arxiv  

The effects of agricultural machinery services and land fragmentation on farmers' straw returning behavior

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Straw returning is important for rural ecological management and sustainable agricultural development. Using farm survey data for Anhui Province, China, in 2020, we applied the double‐hurdle model to investigate the impact of agricultural machinery services and land fragmentation on farmers' straw‐returning behavior, and to explore the ...
Xin Wang, Yanping Song, Wei Huang
wiley   +1 more source

A Computational Approach to Politeness with Application to Social Factors [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2013
We propose a computational framework for identifying linguistic aspects of politeness. Our starting point is a new corpus of requests annotated for politeness, which we use to evaluate aspects of politeness theory and to uncover new interactions between politeness markers and context.
arxiv  

Apparent strength conceals instability in a model for the collapse of historical states [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
An explanation for the political processes leading to the sudden collapse of empires and states would be useful for understanding both historical and contemporary political events. We seek a general description of state collapse spanning eras and cultures, from small kingdoms to continental empires, drawing on a suitably diverse range of historical ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Political, economic, and governance attitudes of blockchain users [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
We present a survey to evaluate crypto-political, crypto-economic, and crypto-governance sentiment in people who are part of a blockchain ecosystem. Based on 3710 survey responses, we describe their beliefs, attitudes, and modes of participation in crypto and investigate how self-reported political affiliation and blockchain ecosystem affiliation are ...
arxiv  

How do both firm‐level resources and country‐level competitiveness shape the relationship between alliance portfolio diversity and radical innovation? A comparison between the food and other manufacturing industries

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines how European food companies can operationally leverage the value created by strategic alliances into commercially viable products. More importantly, it emphasizes that the effects of alliance portfolio diversity (APD) on radical innovation performance can be achieved not only directly, but also via moderating roles, that is,
María Ancín   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The features of the resumption and set of Lithuanian catholic church in the first decade of the re‐establishment of independence

open access: yesCreativity Studies, 2010
In the article the singularity chances of Catholic Church as the institute after the re‐establishment of Independence are analyzed. Two influences of the Church, inside and outside growing, conditioned by the present economic, social and cultural ...
Valdas Pruskus
doaj   +1 more source

Swedish farmers' approval of nudges

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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