We conducted interviews with 18 direct market (DM) farmers to explore the implications of the Oregon minimum wage (MW) increase for the state’s DM agricultural sector. How, if at all, will DM farms in the Willamette Valley (OR, USA) adjust their prod...
A systematic review of factors affecting the viability of direct powder rolling (DPR) as a process route for producing low-cost titanium metal strips was conducted by consolidating performance and process data from published research. Included is a m...
15 November 2019
Food marketing has been identified as a contributing factor in childhood obesity, prompting global health organizations to recommend restrictions on unhealthy food marketing to children. Chile has responded to this recommendation with a restriction o...
Marketing strategies play a significant role in determining farm income. Although direct marketing has been proposed as an innovative way to improve producers’ economic welfare, little is known about producers’ adoption of direct marketin...
With the increase in China’s land marketization level, the fundamental role of pricing mechanisms in optimizing the allocation of land resources has received greater attention and has affected foreign direct investment (FDI). This paper analyze...
Financial market prediction attracts immense interest among researchers nowadays due to rapid increase in the investments of financial markets in the last few decades. The stock market is one of the leading financial markets due to importance and int...
To address the challenge of quantifying the coupling relationship between user-side reporting and bidding behavior and electricity market operational risks, this study proposes a method for electricity market risk assessment and propagation identific...
Foreign direct investment (FDI) may have a positive effect on the level of pollution in host countries, as described by the pollution haven hypothesis (PHH). However, this kind of effect may depend on the economic conditions in host countries. In thi...
This study investigates the impact of different cases of armed conflict on the US stock market. It examines whether the market reacts differently in cases of direct versus indirect US military involvement in the conflict and at the initiation or term...
The creation of a single competitive EU energy market is aimed at establishing a fair price in the integrated market space. However, electricity markets in European countries remain rather fragmented, and the marginal pricing method, which is the bas...
The growing phenomenon of cluster internationalization has enriched the existing international business theories, but has also brought new puzzles and problems for these theories and perspectives. To synthesize what we do and do not know concerning c...
The EFSA-approved claim that olive oil is beneficial for cardiovascular health suffers from ambiguities that lead to a vague and potentially subjective interpretation of the underlying analytical data. Misunderstandings among customers, but also mark...
The transition to renewable energy is a critical priority for the European Union. However, the roles of foreign direct investment and technological innovation in shaping renewable energy consumption remain unclear. This study examines their joint inf...
Food markets represent a public good essential for urban supply and as intergenerational spaces supporting the small-scale economy, yet they face growing challenges in adapting to sustainability regulations and circular economy requirements. This stu...
In the context of digital rural development, social commerce has become a low-threshold channel through which smallholders can connect directly with consumers. Yet limited evidence explains how acquaintance-based social networks shape the income effe...
Multi-regional electricity markets increasingly struggle to balance data privacy requirements with the computational burden of centralized clearing. To address this issue, this study proposes a distributed joint-clearing framework based on the Altern...
Load forecasting models are of great importance in Electricity Markets and a wide range of techniques have been developed according to the objective being pursued. The increase of smart meters in different sectors (residential, commercial, universiti...
Islamic finance has rapidly expanded into a major component of global financial systems, positioning Sukuk as a core instrument for Sharia-compliant investment and capital raising. Despite growing academic attention to Sukuk pricing and valuation, to...
21 July 2022
Customer response models have gained popularity due to their ability to significantly improve the likelihood of targeting the customers most likely to buy a product or a service. These models are built using databases of previous customers’ buy...
We consider an asset allocation problem where funds must be allocated to six broad classes of assets—equity, corporate bonds, government bonds, listed real estate, gold, and commodities—each represented by a liquid, predominantly US publi...
This paper presents a distributed coordinated clearing strategy to facilitate the procurement of energy and flexibility in transmission and distribution networks. This strategy targets 15-min flexibility requirements of energy systems. Inspired by Eu...
Predicting stock market movement direction is a challenging task due to its fuzzy, chaotic, volatile, nonlinear, and complex nature. However, with advancements in artificial intelligence, abundant data availability, and improved computational capabil...
This paper examines the dynamics of connectedness among the realized volatility indices of 16 clean energy stocks belonging to the SPGCE and the implied volatility indices of two important stock markets—the S&P 500 and the STOXX50—and...
To open new markets, some farmers have adapted direct-to-consumer (DTC) models, such as Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), to reach new settings or audiences. We compared sociodemographic and geospatial contexts to farmers’ experience with...
Weighted directed networks can exhibit stronger aggregate interactions without becoming more integrated or topologically richer. Using daily prices for 32 stock indices over 2006–2026, we construct effective transfer entropy (ETE) networks from...
Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin have received substantial attention from financial exchanges. Unfortunately, arbitrage-based financial market price prediction models are ineffective for cryptocurrencies. In this paper, we utilize standard machine learn...
The European Commission’s renewable energy directive introduced a market-based Guarantees of Origin (GO)-trade system that gives consumers the choice of buying “real” green energy. This has been successful, as the market share of Dutch households tha...
The hotel industry is highly competitive, with hotels seeking new ways to increase market share and boost direct bookings against the dominance of online travel agencies. While previous research has established that hotel website quality influences b...
The SCIP database currently lists nearly 18 million articles associated with electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) containing RoHS-restricted substances above the applicable threshold, raising fundamental questions about the overall effectiveness...
Though many important links between the productivity/resource differences of countries and their trade patterns have been highlighted by traditional trade theories, much less attention has been devoted to studying the role of institutional quality in...
Growing consumer demand for sustainable food has pushed regenerative agriculture (RA) to the forefront of green marketing, often promoted through claims that outpace verifiable environmental outcomes. Because RA is defined by outcome-based principles...
Real estate markets play a crucial role in the economy, providing opportunities for investment and housing. However, there are several challenges in both direct and indirect investment mechanisms affecting its social and financial sustainability. The...
This study investigates whether the directional accuracy of commonly used technical indicators changes with market volatility and whether combining several indicators can improve signal reliability. The analysis draws on 500 daily financial observati...
An important motivation for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive is the creation of non-market environmental benefits, such as improved ecological quality, or greater opportunities for open-access river recreation via microbial polluti...
In the context of the energy crisis and global climate deterioration, the sustainable development of clean energy will become a new direction for future energy development. Based on the development process of clean energy in China in the past ten yea...
Against the backdrop of global low-carbon transition, the integrated development of electricity and carbon markets demands higher efficiency in the optimal operation of virtual power plants (VPPs) and distribution networks, yet conventional trading m...
Stock markets are complex adaptive systems whose feature dependencies evolve over time, and identifying which signals genuinely drive returns is fundamentally a problem of information. Traditional feature selection methods and linear models rely on s...
In most countries, groundwater resource is a public good, and the entitlement of use rights by the public authority to final users differs according to a country-specific legislative framework. In Italy, groundwater extraction has been regulated thro...
This study investigates the cointegrating and causality relationships between foreign direct investment (FDI), foreign portfolio investment (FPI) and institutional quality in a sample of 12 emerging market economies for the period from 2007 to 2017....
The aim of this paper is to assess Czech food consumers’ behavior when buying organic products during the COVID-19 pandemic, with an emphasis on the place of purchase of organic agriculture and food products—especially those purchases wit...
As an important carrier for the application of digital technologies, digital infrastructure plays a crucial role in promoting the digital transformation of the grain system and ensuring food security in the current era. This study utilizes panel data...
Next-day S&P 500 direction forecasting matters for allocation, hedging, and risk management because broad-index movements transmit quickly across portfolios. Does structured news sentiment help predict next-day S&P 500 direction? We test four...
Direct air capture (DAC) systems that capture carbon dioxide (CO2) directly from the atmosphere are garnering considerable attention for their potential role as negative emission technologies in achieving net-zero CO2 emission goals. Common DAC techn...
Enhancing smallholder farmers’ access to reliable, ready, and direct marketing channels is a prerequisite for sustainable food supply and poverty reduction in the developing countries including Ghana. However, it is a great challenge for smallholder...
In this study, we analyze the relationship between economic variables influencing wages in the Dutch economy during the period 1995–2023 using the ARIMAX method. The analysis reveals that lagged wages and salaries for male workers have a strong...
The beverage industry is undergoing a dynamic transition in terms of how and where consumers buy products. In an era of rapid digitalization and shifting consumer behaviors, this study investigates how Germany’s wine producers reach consumers a...
Agroecology is increasingly used to study the evolution of farms and food systems, in which livestock plays a significant part. While large-scale specialized livestock farms are sometimes criticized for their contribution to climate change and nutrie...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on many small and medium-sized businesses around the world. Enterprise risk management (ERM) is a conceptual framework that encompasses the systematic and comprehensive identification, analysis, and...
Blockchain-based financial ecosystems generate unprecedented volumes of multi-temporal data streams requiring sophisticated analytical frameworks that leverage both on-chain transaction patterns and off-chain market microstructure dynamics. This stud...
The availability of environmentally related data is a crucial issue in simulating natural processes. The proposed research demonstrates that although currently there is a plethora of data published on the internet, by national and international offic...
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