We present a solution for the automatic detection and classification of dangerous goods on trucks. Dangerous goods are labeled by an orange dangerous goods plate and/or a dangerous goods symbol sign. The acquisition system consists of a camera and dedicated illumination setup. A computer vision system processes the images by localizing and reading the dangerous goods number. The proposed system...

W study markets for information goods and find that they differ significantly from markets for traditional industrial goods. Markets for information goods in which products are vertically differentiated lack the segmentation inherent in markets for industrial goods. As a result, a monopoly will offer only a single product. Competition leads to highly concentrated information-good markets, with ...

• What are experience goods? For many agricultural and food items, consumers cannot assess food quality until after consumption. In the economics and marketing literature, these goods are referred to as experience goods (Nelson, 1970). When purchasing experience goods, consumers search for quality cues to inform them about their product choice. In this setting, producers’ reputations become imp...

This paper explores a global public goods approach to the health of migrants. It suggests that this approach establishes that there are a number of health goods which must be provided to migrants not because these are theirs by right (although this may independently be the case), but because these goods are primary goods which fit the threefold criteria of global public goods. There are two key...