Current biodiesel production practices entail the consumption of fossil fuels. The original proposal for green air travel supported using biodiesel (Wardle 03), included a mechanism to offset this consumption, so that the resulting green air travel was, in effect, " fossil free. " It is now recognized that the mechanism was not properly designed, and, in the present paper, a revised mechanism i...

The goal of this work is to investigate land-use change at the global scale over the long run – particularly in the context of analyzing the fundamental drivers behind land-use related GHG emissions. For this purpose, we identify the most important drivers of supply and demand for land. On the demand side, we begin with a dynamic general equilibrium (GE) model that predicts economic growth in e...

The convergence of health reform regulation, consumer demand, market realities and technology developments are driving healthcare organizations to explore new models of care delivery and payment across the delivery spectrum (IOM, 2011, Healthcare.gov). With increasing focus on consumers, there is a growing demand for outcome-based health management (DeNicola, 2012, Sarasohn-Kahn, 2009a). The ex...

The making of projections often requires an economy-wide perspective, and the estimation of consumer demands at the international level. In this paper, an implicit, directly additive demand system (AIDADS) is estimated using crosscountry data on consumer expenditures from the International Comparison Program (ICP), and then from Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) data. The two data sets are f...

A rational behavior of a consumer is analyzed when the user participates in a Peak Time Rebate (PTR) mechanism, which is a demand response (DR) incentive program based on a baseline. A multi-stage stochastic programming is proposed from the demand side in order to understand the rational decisions. The consumer preferences are modeled as a risk-averse function under additive uncertainty. The us...

This paper explores the potential for audio and video services streamed to mobile handset from the perspective of consumer behaviour. The author argues that consumer choice rather than technology or supply side activities will determine the success of the services and that demand for mobile broadcasting services will come primarily from consumers who are currently using mobile audio and video s...

We study supply chain contracting with investment in demand forecasting under downstream competition. Supporting some recent industry observations, we show that under common pricing schemes, such as wholesale price or two-part tariff, downstream firms overinvest in demand forecasting. Analyzing the bounds and determinants of overinvestment, we demonstrate that the wholesale price and two-part t...