This study attempts to investigate the impact of the working certification programs on the income of the coffee farms operated by the local smallholders at Dakha District, Kontum, Vietnam. Followed by the comparisons of the socio-demographic and economic characteristics between certified and non-certified farmers, the study adopts the Binary Probit model and linear regression model were applied...

for t = 1, ..., N . σ represents the volatility of the price, and ξk ∼ N (0; 1). ht represents the net sale volumes of all liquid providing HFT funds. g(v) is the price impact function, which we will discuss later. Based on findings by the Federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) [3], we model the price impact of HFTs using the volume of net trades from HFTs scaled by its percentage ...

Previous online reputation research has been focused on the effects of positive and negative reputations on trust formation, trading price, and probability of sale. We propose that negative feedback rate (NFR) is the most important indicator of the risk of buying from a seller online. This proposition has been supported by an empirical study based on data collected from eBay.com. We found that ...

Product perishability is a major concern of certain industrial sectors, especially the agro-food industry. This paper investigates the effect of product perishability and retailers’ stockout policy on system total cost, net profit, service level, and average inventory level in a two-echelon inventory–distribution system, and develops an approximate inventory model to these system performance me...

More and more researches on household mobile robots are being undertaken these days. Since commercial cleaning robots are now available for sale to the public, robots are being used in private homes. As the quality of household robots improves, docking stations, which have a variety of uses, including as automatic recharging ports, have become increasingly important. Generally in household robo...

The transition from fossil fuel-based to renewable energy sources is one of the main economic and social challenges early 21st century. Due volatile character wind solar power production, matching supply demand essential for this be successful. In context, willingness private consumers use flexibly has gained growing attention. Research indicates that a viable driver motivate flexible make them...

The socioeconomic impacts of foot and mouth disease (FMD) during 2011-12 outbreaks on large ruminant smallholders in Laos were investigated, including examination of data on gender, household financial status and farmer husbandry practices. A mix of participatory tools and survey questionnaires at the village and household level, respectively, were conducted, involving individual farmer intervi...

Creating Low Skilled Jobs by Subsidizing Market-Contracted Household Work We analyze the determinants of household work contracted in the German shadow economy. The German socio-economic household panel, which enumerates casual domestic employment, is used to estimate the demand for such household work. The regressors include regional wage rates, household income and several control variables f...

At my institution, the EcoCampus committee is charged with developing approaches to promote sustainable behavior on campus, specifically behaviors that will reduce the campus’s net carbon emissions. Approaches that provide new opportunities, such as coordinating a campus rummage sale to reduce end-of-year trash disposal and start-of-year purchases, have met with great success. More direct appro...