In: System dynamics review, 2021, vol. 37, no. 2-3, p. 155-196
Benefiting from historically favorable conditions (e.g. low costs, fertile land, and abundant water), pistachio producers in Rafsanjan, Iran, have flourished, with pistachio orchards and production growing dramatically since the 1970s. Today, however, the enormous increase in water consumption associated with pistachio production has severely depleted groundwater aquifers, causing widespread...
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In: Journal of Automated Reasoning, 2015, vol. 54, no. 4, p. 327-352
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In: International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021, vol. 18, no. 5, p. 15 p
Background: The pervasiveness of smartphones has raised concerns about an increase in the prevalence of problematic smartphone use (PSU), which depends on a set of psychological and behavioral risk factors. Previous research has yielded mixed results on factors predicting PSU, including social anxiety and trust. In particular, the role of trust remained largely unexplored. In the present study,...
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In: Games, 2018, vol. 9, no. 3, p. 38
In a world affected by the constant growth and concentration of the population in urban areas, the problem of preserving natural resources has become a priority. A promising approach to resource conservation is demand management, i.e., the ability to positively influence the behaviour of the population towards more sustainable consumption. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools...
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In: Journal of computational and applied mathematics, 2019, vol. 350, p. 114-129
Barycentric coordinates provide a convenient way to represent a point inside a triangle as a convex combination of the triangle’s vertices and to linearly interpolate data given at these vertices. Due to their favourable properties, they are commonly applied in geometric modelling, finite element methods, computer graphics, and many other fields. In some of these applications, it is desirable...
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In: Journal of empirical finance, 2009, vol. 16, no. 4, p. 537-556
We amend the conditional CAPM to allow for unobservable long-run changes in risk factor loadings. In this environment, investors rationally “learn” the long-run level of factor loadings from the observation of realized returns. As a consequence of this assumption, we model conditional betas using the Kalman filter. Because of its focus on low-frequency variation in betas, our approach...
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In: Energy economics, 2011, vol. 33, no. 5, p. 889-895
In this paper we present an empirical analysis of the residential demand for electricity using annual aggregate data at the state level for 48 US states from 1995 to 2007. Earlier literature has examined residential energy consumption at the state level using annual or monthly data, focusing on the variation in price elasticities of demand across states or regions, but has failed to recognize...
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The application of Green’s theorem to free boundary problems in option pricing leads to a new metric to measure numerical errors. Free boundaries for a variety of interest rate models are computed more accurately through minimization of our metric.
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A general result of information theory is that asymmetric information generates agent rents and distortions in production. In this paper, we analyse the impact of asymmetric information on adoption and use of information technology (IT). Depending on the conctracting scheme, different results may occur. We explore the differences between the case of contractible investment and the case of...
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Switzerland has signed a Treaty with the EU on free mobility. From June 2004, this will replace current regulations based on quotas of foreign work force, and will facilitate the access of Italian enterprises to the Ticino market. Evidence found when monitoring the Ticino economy for the period 1980-2002 shows that the opening of the market had largely been anticipated; indeed the regional...
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