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Does the trade of medical products contribute to promoting human development?-An empirical analysis based on data from China and RCEP countries. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Wu L, Liu W, Zhou J, Zhou D, Xiao H.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Impact of Credit and Training on Farmers Efficiency: A Semi‐Parametric Meta‐Frontier Analysis

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers in developing countries face several constraints, which affect their productivity. To reduce these constraints and enhance productivity, government and non‐governmental agencies implement programmes that provide credit and training to farmers.
Anthony Baffoe‐Bonnie, Genti Kostandini   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is Technological Heterogeneity the Key to Sustainable Coffee Production Efficiency?: A Latent Class Frontier Analysis in the Traditional Coffee Region of Colombia

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Coffee producers deal with uncertainty due to high volatility in coffee prices. To navigate these challenges, producers must balance the tradeoff between higher yield and better quality utilising heterogeneous technologies, such as intensive production methods and environmental management practices.
Orlando Rodríguez, Maria Vrachioli, Johannes Sauer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modeling ROI in chronic disease management: a simulation-based framework integrating patient adherence and policy timing. [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Cha J, Cha ED, Yoo EH, Song H.
europepmc   +1 more source

An analysis of costs in institutions of higher education in England [PDF]

Cost functions are estimated, using both random effects and stochastic frontier methods, for institutions of higher education in England. The paper advances on the existing literature by employing finer disaggregation by subject, institution type, and ...
E Thanassoulis, Geraint Johnes, Jill Johnes   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Environmental Performance Evaluation Under the Frontier Analysis Framework: A Farm‐Level Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Quantifying and improving the environmental performance (EP) of agriculture has become an urgent research and policy priority. Over the past three decades, frontier‐based analytical frameworks have been widely applied to evaluate farm‐level EP.
Fissha Asmare, Bethan Thompson, Tarek Soliman, Thomas Donovan, Klaus Glenk, Andrew Barnes   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adaptive airspace allocation model for urban drone logistics using multi-objective optimization under uncertainty. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Zhu Y, Sun X, Hou T.
europepmc   +1 more source

Buyer‐Optimal Platform Design

The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A platform matches a unit mass of sellers, each owning a single product of heterogeneous quality, to a unit mass of buyers with differing valuations for unit‐quality. After matching, sellers make take‐it‐or‐leave‐it price‐offers to buyers. Initially, valuations of buyers are only known to them and the platform, but sellers make inferences from
Daniele Condorelli, Balazs Szentes
wiley   +1 more source

Who expands the human creative frontier with generative AI: Hive minds or masterminds? [PDF]

Sci Adv
Zhou EB, Lee D, Gu B.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Political Economy of Patent Buyouts

The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Incentivizing innovation through buyouts may alleviate the social costs associated with patent power, but the political economy and feasibility of this potentially important financing mechanism have been understudied. We study an international setting of countries with different innovation and financing capabilities, and where financing ...
Amal Ahmad, Dominik Naeher, Sebastian Vollmer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source