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Defining Rural Smartness and Its Impact: A Systematic Literature Review
The utilisation of information technology to facilitate “smartness” is considered as a promising approach to improve the rural economy. However, the...
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Inverse data envelopment analysis without convexity: double frontiers
In this research, inverse data envelopment analysis (IDEA) approaches are proposed to measure inputs changes for output perturbations made while the...
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Production Potential and Solutions for Major Grain-Producing Provinces
The cornerstone of China’s efforts in guaranteeing food security is sustained growth in grain production of major grain-producing provinces. Whether...
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Inequality and Welfare
The chapter summarizes recent trends in inequality in the Emerging European Economies (EEE) since the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008-2009 and...
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On the effect of operational service attributes on transit satisfaction
Public transport (PT) providers aim to offer services that meet users’ satisfaction, and for this, they can control some operational service...
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On the Resilience of Sociotechnical Systems
When designing or redesigning sociotechnical systems, it is often required that those systems be more “resilient’’ as a result. However, exactly what...
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Trajectories and transitions: mobility after parenthood
Life events, such as childbirth or retirement, provide a crucial opportunity in which an individual’s habitual travel routines are disrupted and they...
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An Analysis on the Geopolitical Pattern and Regional Situation in South Asia
Over the years, the geopolitical situation in South Asia, which is a self-enclosed geographic unit, has shown an overall pattern of development...
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Modellentwicklung und Schätzung der Input-Parameter
Die Bewertung langfristiger Einsparpotenziale durch präventive Förderung der körperlich-sportlichen Aktivität im Kindes- und Jugendalter erfolgt auf...
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A Genetic Algorithm Based on Relaxation Induced Neighborhood Search in a Local Branching Framework for Capacitated Multicommodity Network Design
The fixed-charge Capacitated Multicommodity Network Design (CMND) is a well-known problem of both practical and theoretical significance. This...
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Market Efficiency in Emerging Markets: Evidence from African and Central European Markets
This chapter reviews the literature on market integration and market efficiency; we try to explore the interconnection between the two in this...
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The Types of Economic Resources Transmitted through the Networks of St. Petersburg IT Professionals
This chapter describes what kinds of economically relevant resources are transmitted within the personal networks of St. Petersburg IT managers. The...
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Social Mechanisms Governing the Informal Transactions between Russian IT Managers
While the previous chapter dealt with the contents of Russian managers’ informal transactions (e.g. information, advice, money), this chapter...
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On the Condorcet Efficiency of Approval Voting and Extended Scoring Rules for Three Alternatives
The results presented in this chapter belong to the long tradition of evaluating the voting rules on their propensity to select the Condorcet winner....
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Measuring regional economic efficiency: the case of Greek prefectures
This paper, using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), measures for the first time the economic growth policies of the Greek prefectures. Based on the...
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New Genetic Algorithms Based Approaches to Continuous p-Median Problem
We proposed new genetic algorithms (GAs) to address well-known p -median problem in continuous space. Two GA approaches with different replacement...
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The effects of shocks on the Austrian unemployment rate – a structural VAR approach
Assuming full hysteresis in the Austrian labour market, a simple macroeconomic framework is used to model the effect of four structural shocks, i.e....
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The core in an oligopoly market with indivisibility
This paper studies the core in an oligopoly market with indivisibility. It provides necessary and sufficient conditions for core existence in a...
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Models of the Term Structure with Stochastic Volatility
The aim of this chapter is to introduce the reader to the basic continuous time models designed to determine the term structure of interest rates. We...