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Penrose voting system and optimal quota

open access: yes, 2006
Systems of indirect voting based on the principle of qualified majority can be analysed using the methods of game theory. In particular, this applies to the voting system in the Council of the European Union, which was recently a subject of a vivid political discussion.
Słomczyński, Wojciech   +1 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Impact of the International Coffee Agreement's export quota system on the World's coffee market [PDF]

open access: yes
Ex-post simulations of the global coffee model over the recent period of operation of the International Coffee Agreement's export quota system, (1981-86) show the following.
Akiyama, Takamasa, Varangis, Panayotis
core  

Simulating competition in the US bioeconomy to produce hard‐to‐electrify transportation fuels using limited biomass resources

open access: yesBiofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, EarlyView.
Abstract This study presents a novel bioeconomy optimization framework, BiOpt, designed to address critical questions regarding the strategic use of limited US biomass resources for biofuel production. By integrating detailed techno‐economic analyses, life cycle assessments, and resource assessment data, BiOpt optimizes resource distributions across ...
Nicholas A. Carlson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of the abolition of EU Milk quotas on Agriculture in the UK [PDF]

open access: yes
In recent years the CAP has undergone significant reforms, but the dairy sector has largely avoided wholesale changes. The sector, however, is now faced with a significant effort by the Commission to instigate reform. In this study the FAPRI-UK modelling
Binfield, Julian C.R.   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Trust first, concerns second: An international vignette study of older adults' preferences towards deprescribing statins

open access: yesBritish Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigated the attitudes and beliefs of older adults towards deprescribing statins in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, using an online, vignette‐based study. Presented with a hypothetical scenario in which a general practitioner advised stopping simvastatin, participants rated their level of agreement and ...
Sarah E. Vordenberg   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Institutionalized Metzler Effects: Tariff-Rate Quota Liberalization in a Supply-Managed Industry [PDF]

open access: yes
A supply management system governs Canada’s poultry sector. Tariff Rate Quotas (TRQs), with prohibitive above-quota tariffs and low in-quota tariff, mimic import-quotas limit international competition in Canada’s poultry market.
Larue, Bruno, Pouliot, Sebastien
core   +1 more source

Emotional experiences and stigma among families benefiting from Barcelona's shock plan against school segregation and for inclusion and equal opportunities and educational success

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the emotional experiences and processes of stigmatisation encountered by families benefiting from the Shock Plan Against Segregation and for Inclusion, Equal Opportunities and Educational Success (SP), implemented in Barcelona.
Andrea Jover   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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