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Alternative Policy Designs to Help Farmers Select Profitable Conservation Practices
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Voluntary private carbon initiatives (VPCIs) promote the implementation of agricultural conservation practices that mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) via financial incentives to participating farmers. Simultaneously, an array of public policies supports the adoption of conservation practices through technical and financial ...
Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn +1 more
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Propósitos y Representaciones, 2015 The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role of universities and other institutions in successful entrepreneurship. Insights are obtained following a literature review approach. Case studies from the United States (New York startup), Spain (Mondragon)
German A. Zarate - Hoyos +1 more
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AIChE Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Flexibility is a crucial characteristic of industrial systems that face increasing volatilities and is therefore essential to ensure feasible operation under uncertainty. Flexibility is often closely tied to the design of a system, and careful consideration must be taken to understand the trade‐off between design cost and operational ...
Jnana Sai Jagana +3 more
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Energies, 2019 A groundswell of opinion in utilizing environmentally friendly energy technologies has been put forth worldwide. In this paper, we consider an energy generation plant distribution and allocation problem under uncertainty to get the utmost out of ...
Xiao Zhao, Xuhui Xia, Guodong Yu
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Manipulating reliance on intuition reduces risk and ambiguity aversion [PDF]
, 2013 Prior research suggests that those who rely on intuition rather than effortful reasoning when making decisions are less averse to risk and ambiguity. The evidence is largely correlational, however, leaving open the question of the direction of causality.
Butler, Jeffrey V. +2 more
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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Optimal Risk Taking in an Uneven Tournament Game with Risk Averse Players [PDF]
, 2007 We analyze the optimal choice of risk in a two-stage tournament game between two players that have different concave utility functions. At the first stage, both players simultaneously choose risk.
Kräkel, Matthias
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Risk Aversion, Wealth, and Background Risk [PDF]
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2001 We use household survey data to construct a direct measure of absolute risk aversion based on the maximum price a consumer is willing to pay to enter a lottery. We relate this measure to consumers' endowment and attributes and to measures of background risk.
Paiella, Monica Pia Cecilia +1 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT For adults with intellectual disability and their families, future planning and moving out of the family home in Australia will increasingly occur within the context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). As a market‐based, individualised funding system its impact on this transition remains largely unknown. This paper reports on a
I. Belperio +5 more
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Journal of Nigerian Society of Physical SciencesThis research presents a computational optimization framework designed to maximize auctioneer revenue in modified discrete Dutch auctions by explicitly incorporating bidders’ risk preferences---modeled independently of wealth through the Constant ...
Raja Aqib Shamim +2 more
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