Externalities, Communication and the Allocation of Decision Rights

A Novel Model for the Analysis of Interactions Between Governments and Agricultures in a Study of Social Beneficial Externalities Based on the Stackelberg Game: A Case Study on Cotton Production

Production is a key economic activity with potential long-term social benefits that can be thoroughly realised only if governments comply with their duties towards domestic production. Governments are responsible for the production of sustainable agricultural products via appropriate allocation of subsidies and regulation of price policies that would help take advantage of the potentials underl...

Information And Communication Technology Externalities And Economic Growth In Newly Industrialized Countries

Allocation of Posts to a Tele-Communication Center Through Kavos (RESEARCH NOTE)

Every phone company customer in a given region receives phone services from a switching center through intermediate points called kavos. The problem addressed in this paper is where to locate this central facility and the kavos, how many of them and with what capacity, so that the total cable length is minimized. This problem can be formulated as a 0-1 mixed integer program; However, because of...

Economic and Technical Efficiency of the Biomass Industry in China: A Network Data Envelopment Analysis Model Involving Externalities

This paper proposes the network data envelopment analysis (DEA) model accounting for negative externalities and applies it for decomposition of profit inefficiency in the biomass-agriculture circular system (Bio-AG system). A circular structure of the Bio-AG system which is different from the previously applied network structures is assumed. Since the negative externalities (i.e., pollutant emi...

بررسی عوامل و راه کارهای رعایت حقوق بیمار

Objective: increase of patient's rights observance is one of the important goals of therapeutic group activities which will have useful role in improving health of the patient. Meanwhile, many physicians play important role in providing better services. Most of the physicians imagine themselves in a position that they are authorized to determine destiny of their patients. In some cases, the...