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Estimation of Multilevel Simultaneous Equation Models through Genetic Algorithms

  • Rocío Hernández-Sanjaime,
  • Martín González and
  • Jose J. López-Espín

24 November 2020

Problems in estimating simultaneous equation models when error terms are not intertemporally uncorrelated has motivated the introduction of a new multivariate model referred to as Multilevel Simultaneous Equation Model (MSEM). The maximum likelihood...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,178 Views
13 Pages

Estimating Simultaneous Equation Models through an Entropy-Based Incremental Variational Bayes Learning Algorithm

  • Rocío Hernández-Sanjaime,
  • Martín González,
  • Antonio Peñalver and
  • Jose J. López-Espín

24 March 2021

The presence of unaccounted heterogeneity in simultaneous equation models (SEMs) is frequently problematic in many real-life applications. Under the usual assumption of homogeneity, the model can be seriously misspecified, and it can potentially indu...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,573 Views
9 Pages

A New Computational Method for Estimating Simultaneous Equations Models Using Entropy as a Parameter Criteria

  • Belén Pérez-Sánchez,
  • Martín González,
  • Carmen Perea and
  • Jose J. López-Espín

24 March 2021

Simultaneous Equations Models (SEM) is a statistical technique widely used in economic science to model the simultaneity relationship between variables. In the past years, this technique has also been used in other fields such as psychology or medici...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,932 Views
22 Pages

23 October 2024

Improving agricultural energy inefficiency is essential for achieving sustainable agricultural development and promoting major agricultural countries to achieve carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals. This paper analyzes agricultural energy ineffici...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,076 Views
28 Pages

We compare the finite sample performance of a number of Bayesian and classical procedures for limited information simultaneous equations models with weak instruments by a Monte Carlo study. We consider Bayesian approaches developed by Chao and Philli...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,229 Views
14 Pages

16 September 2017

China’s new round tenure reform has devolved collective forests to individuals on an egalitarian basis. To balance the equity–efficiency dilemma, forestland transfers are highly advocated by policymakers. However, the forestland rental market is stil...

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  • Open Access
38 Citations
6,514 Views
17 Pages

Modeling Crown Biomass for Four Pine Species in China

  • Wen-Tao Zou,
  • Wei-Sheng Zeng,
  • Lian-Jin Zhang and
  • Ming Zeng

9 February 2015

To analyze the main variables affecting crown biomass, we measured crown biomass and a number of variables describing tree size, such as stem diameter at breast height (D), tree height (H), crown width (Cw) and crown length (Cl), from 754 sample tree...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,050 Views
23 Pages

2 June 2022

We consider the optimal dividend problem in the so-called degenerate bivariate risk model under the assumption that the surplus of one branch may become negative. More specific, we solve the stochastic control problem of maximizing discounted dividen...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,578 Views
13 Pages

This paper is an attempt to empirically examine the impact of Basel Accord regulatory guidelines on the risk-based capital adequacy regulation and bank risk management of Vietnamese commercial banks. Our research aims to assess how Vietnamese commerc...

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  • Open Access
68 Citations
5,807 Views
13 Pages

26 January 2021

This article extends the previous studies on environmental economics literature by examining a possible relationship between economic growth, green energy, and environmental quality. Specifically, this article investigated the three-way linkage betwe...

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  • Open Access
68 Citations
5,464 Views
19 Pages

Exploring the Nexus of Renewable Energy, Ecological Footprint, and Economic Growth through Globalization and Human Capital in G7 Economics

  • Riza Radmehr,
  • Samira Shayanmehr,
  • Ernest Baba Ali,
  • Elvis Kwame Ofori,
  • Elżbieta Jasińska and
  • Michał Jasiński

27 September 2022

This study used panel simultaneous equations models with a generalized method of moments (GMM) estimator to examine the three-way linkages between ecological footprint (EFP), renewable energy consumption (REC), and income in the Group of Seven (G7) c...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,919 Views
13 Pages

This paper examines whether there is a causal relationship between bank loans and deposits in the Vietnamese banking system and the efficiency of the use of loans and deposits by the Vietnamese banks. In a country such as Vietnam, where inter-bank mo...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,739 Views
13 Pages

27 May 2020

In the context of sustainable development, air pollution poses challenges to the adjustment of the industrial structure in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. In order to explore the relationship between air pollution and urban industrial development,...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,412 Views
21 Pages

20 January 2025

To address the COVID-19 pandemic, governments worldwide implemented mandatory restrictions. As an unintended consequence of these responses, significant air pollution reductions have been recorded across the world. We provide cross-national evidence...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,683 Views
20 Pages

28 July 2021

In recent years, more and more funds circulate internally in the financial field, which is called “financial hoarding”. After calculations, the scale of China’s financial hoarding was 242,178 billion yuan in the first quarter of 2003 and jumped to 1,...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,344 Views
27 Pages

18 July 2022

Under the pressure of serious environmental pollution and energy shortage, China needs to improve its energy efficiency to alleviate these problems. Environmental regulation is an important constraint on economic development, which has an impact on e...

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  • Open Access
56 Citations
11,852 Views
24 Pages

In recent years, China has gradually become one of the countries with the largest levels of foreign direct investment (FDI). FDI has played a significant role in promoting Chinese economic development, and the FDI technology spillover effect is one o...

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48 Views
25 Pages

12 March 2026

The deep integration of the digital and real economies is a critical force reshaping the global economic landscape. At the same time, new high-quality productive forces that are distinguished by their high level of efficiency, quality, and technology...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,239 Views
20 Pages

29 March 2023

On the one hand, the twin perspectives of the construction industry and urban agglomeration proliferate economic prosperity. However, on the other hand, construction activities and increased population density give rise to environmental challenges. T...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,207 Views
19 Pages

23 August 2023

In the realm of multichannel digital retailing, free shipping has gained popularity as a promotion strategy. However, few studies have investigated how retailers make decisions regarding free shipping. Furthermore, concerns have arisen regarding the...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,807 Views
17 Pages

21 March 2023

Cultural and creative industries (CCIs) clusters are essential in increasing regional economic resilience, and regions with solid economic resilience can also promote the formation of CCIs clusters. However, there is little research on the two-way ef...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,122 Views
17 Pages

8 February 2023

Knowledge of long-term population trends is still incomplete at the global scale. In this perspective, human and animal ecology has intensively studied the relationship between the Mean (M) size and the Variance (V) of specific attributes of subpopul...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,376 Views
15 Pages

7 February 2023

As an important agricultural policy, agricultural insurance will affect farmers’ production input, such as fertilizers and pesticides. Its development needs to consider the environmental impact and adapt to the needs of sustainable development....

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,262 Views
22 Pages

11 November 2024

Innovative energy facilities, such as solar panels, heat pumps, and smart control ventilation, offer substantial opportunities to improve energy efficiency and environmental performance in the tertiary sector, aligning with green building objectives....

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,107 Views
22 Pages

30 October 2020

University start-ups include faculty and student start-ups. Earlier research on universities’ roles in start-ups was focused on faculty. When student start-ups outperform faculty start-ups, the resources affecting these start-ups, and their rel...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,637 Views
32 Pages

From Access to Impact: How Digital Financial Inclusion Drives Sustainable Development

  • Gerardo Enrique Kattan-Rodríguez and
  • Alicia Fernanda Galindo-Manrique

2 December 2025

This study examines the combined impact of fintech and financial inclusion on achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Previous research has emphasized the role of financial inclusion in reducing poverty, strengthenin...

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383 Views
34 Pages

15 February 2026

Although many countries have reduced the use of agricultural price intervention policies, such measures continue to be applied intermittently by the Thai government. In the current work, which examines the cassava price intervention policy from 1981...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,529 Views
19 Pages

25 November 2022

With economic growth and rising incomes, increasing consumption of fossil energy is leading to environmental pollution and climate change, which requires increased innovative inputs to promote the efficiency of renewable energy use. Considering the i...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,369 Views
15 Pages

This paper determines the influence of agroecological, land-elevation and socioeconomic factors in the raising of different types of livestock in Bangladesh using nationwide sub-district level data from two Agriculture and Livestock Censuses of 1996...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,919 Views
21 Pages

Supply and Demand Model for a Chili Enterprise System Using a Simultaneous Equations System

  • Meuthia Rachmaniah,
  • Arif Imam Suroso,
  • Muhamad Syukur and
  • Irman Hermadi

6 December 2022

The supply and demand of various fresh chili types correspond to one another simultaneously because they can be complementary or substitute products. This study aimed to simultaneously examine the supply and demand model of red chili and cayenne pepp...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,257 Views
29 Pages

Generalized Maximum Entropy Analysis of the Linear Simultaneous Equations Model

  • Thomas L. Marsh,
  • Ron Mittelhammer and
  • Nicholas Scott Cardell

12 February 2014

A generalized maximum entropy estimator is developed for the linear simultaneous equations model. Monte Carlo sampling experiments are used to evaluate the estimator’s performance in small and medium sized samples, suggesting contexts in which the cu...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,794 Views
20 Pages

23 June 2015

A nonlinear equation system for individual tree diameter growth and mortality of natural Mongolian oak forests was developed based on 13,360 observations from 195 permanent sample plots in Northeast China. Weighted regression was used in a distance...

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  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,486 Views
22 Pages

South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries like other developing countries are the major destination for foreign investors. At the same time, these countries are facing different climate change challenges. This study aims to i...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,344 Views
22 Pages

10 April 2024

China’s economy has been growing at a rapid pace in recent years, but the quality of economic development has not been consistent with the quantity, which is not conducive to sustainable economic development. How to improve the quality of econo...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,308 Views
22 Pages

Structural Equation Modeling and Genome-Wide Selection for Multiple Traits to Enhance Arabica Coffee Breeding Programs

  • Matheus Massariol Suela,
  • Camila Ferreira Azevedo,
  • Ana Carolina Campana Nascimento,
  • Eveline Teixeira Caixeta Moura,
  • Antônio Carlos Baião de Oliveira,
  • Gota Morota and
  • Moysés Nascimento

12 July 2025

Recognizing the interrelationship among variables becomes critical in genetic breeding programs, where the goal is often to optimize selection for multiple traits. Conventional multi-trait models face challenges such as convergence issues, and they f...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,792 Views
24 Pages

13 November 2025

The primary goal of the present study was to assess the efficacy of the inflation-targeting framework (ITF) within the Egyptian economy. This was achieved by scrutinizing the monetary policy framework (MPF) from 2005 to 2022 and measuring its effecti...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,717 Views
17 Pages

With the continuous increase in global fossil energy consumption, carbon dioxide emissions and the greenhouse effect have gradually increased. This study uses a simultaneous equations model to explore the dynamic nexus of fossil energy consumption, t...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,926 Views
19 Pages

29 December 2022

Airborne LiDAR has been extensively used for estimating and mapping forest attributes at various scales. However, most models have been developed separately and independently without considering the intrinsic mathematical relationships and correlatio...

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25 Citations
6,126 Views
18 Pages

Interactions between Resident Risk Perceptions and Wildfire Risk Mitigation: Evidence from Simultaneous Equations Modeling

  • James R. Meldrum,
  • Hannah Brenkert-Smith,
  • Patricia Champ,
  • Jamie Gomez,
  • Lilia Falk and
  • Christopher Barth

12 August 2019

Fire science emphasizes that mitigation actions on residential property, including structural hardening and maintaining defensible space, can reduce the risk of wildfire at a home. Accordingly, a rich body of social science literature investigates th...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,678 Views
23 Pages

13 February 2020

The paper develops a simultaneous equations stochastic frontier model (SFM) with dependent random noise and inefficiency components of individual equations as well as allowing dependence across all equations of the model using copula functions. First...

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  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,840 Views
22 Pages

Prediction of Individual Tree Diameter and Height to Crown Base Using Nonlinear Simultaneous Regression and Airborne LiDAR Data

  • Zhaohui Yang,
  • Qingwang Liu,
  • Peng Luo,
  • Qiaolin Ye,
  • Guangshuang Duan,
  • Ram P. Sharma,
  • Huiru Zhang,
  • Guangxing Wang and
  • Liyong Fu

13 July 2020

The forest growth and yield models, which are used as important decision-support tools in forest management, are commonly based on the individual tree characteristics, such as diameter at breast height (DBH), crown ratio, and height to crown base (HC...

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2,208 Views
26 Pages

27 July 2022

The fifth order Kudryashov–Sinelshchikov equation models the evolution of the nonlinear waves in a gas–liquid mixture, taking into account an interphase heat transfer, surface tension, and weak liquid compressibility simultaneously at the...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,037 Views
11 Pages

Well-Posedness of Problems for the Heat Equation with a Fractional-Loaded Term and Memory

  • Umida Baltaeva,
  • Bobur Khasanov,
  • Omongul Egamberganova and
  • Hamrobek Hayitbayev

14 October 2025

We investigate the Cauchy problem for a heat equation incorporating variable diffusion coefficients and fractional memory effects modeled by a separable convolution kernel. By employing the fundamental solution of the associated parabolic equation, t...

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5 Citations
2,746 Views
8 Pages

27 January 2022

In this article, a concept named double decomposition, which is used to model turbulent flows in porous media, is examined. This concept is based on the idea that in a turbulent flow through a porous matrix, local instantaneous variables can be avera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,591 Views
22 Pages

12 May 2016

Due to the high nonlinearity of the three-dimensional (3-D) unsaturated-saturated water flow equation, using a fully 3-D numerical model is computationally expensive for large scale applications. A new unsaturated-saturated water flow model is develo...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,370 Views
17 Pages

14 June 2023

Structural equation models constrain mean vectors and covariance matrices and are frequently applied in the social sciences. Frequently, the structural equation model is misspecified to some extent. In many cases, researchers nevertheless intend to w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
4,404 Views
15 Pages

6 July 2020

In this paper, influential parameters on the hydraulic fracturing processes in porous media were investigated. Besides, the simultaneous stimulation of solids, fluids and fractures geomechanical equations were numerically analyzed as a developed 3D m...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
107 Citations
31,559 Views
17 Pages

11 December 2020

Although alkaline water electrolysis (AWE) is the most widespread technology for hydrogen production by electrolysis, its electrochemical and fluid dynamic optimization has rarely been addressed simultaneously using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,969 Views
13 Pages

21 April 2021

A system of transcendental equations (SoTE) is a set of simultaneous equations containing at least a transcendental function. Solutions involving transcendental equations are often problematic, particularly in the form of a system of equations. This...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,395 Views
13 Pages

22 March 2017

A mathematical model for the reaction-diffusion equation is developed to describe the nutrient release profiles and degradation of poly(lactic acid) (PLA)-coated controlled-release fertilizer. A multi-diffusion model that consists of coupled partial...

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