Optimal Policy ReachPolitical failureThe energy sector has since long been a popular playground for political interventions. In market oriented economies like the OHCD countries, such policy actions are warranted only to rectify existing market failures. The present paper analyzes the goals and ...
Personal time is extremely important for a healthy balance. We are able to be more productive at work when we infuse our daily schedules with some downtime. However, working where we live can lead to blurred lines between work and homelife causing some to find it hard to turn off the wor...
Pro-subsidy economists argue that subsidies to particular industries are vital to helping support businesses and the jobs that they create. Economists who promote a mixed economy often argue that subsidies are justifiable to provide the socially optimal level of goods and services, which will lead to...
Children, especially infants, with responsive parents are more likely to develop a healthy emotional bond with their parents. A healthy bond between a child and caregiver is called a secure attachment. Secure attachment is associated with optimal brain development, according to a 2015 study from Aus...
In Belgium, the Netherlands, and France, over 60% of employers struggle to find people with the right skills, although graduate rates haven’t dropped sharply. Candidates also realize that college is no longer the ‘golden ticket’ to a successful career. Only half of American workers believe...
s life conditions and chances. Human flourishing can be understood as an effort to find fulfillment and realize one’s individual potential in the context of a larger society, each with the right to do the same.Footnote7While urbanization offers to unlock human potential as it brings forward ...
and malaria had been definitely ruled out. But in contrast with Texas, in West Africa typhoid and malaria are endemic; so one is unlikely to find any adult who is not carrying antibodies for typhus or who is not carrying some level of malarial parasites. Thus diagnostic uncertainties prevail ...
We use Lyapunov Direct Method to find eight special equilibrium points of the new energy vehicle diffusion game system: E1 (0,0,0), E2 (1,0,0), E3 (0,1,0), E4 (0,0,1), E5 (1,1,0), E6 (1,0,1), E7 (0,1,1) and E8 (1,1,1). Based on the three-party replicator...
by reprocessing lower grade scrap. On the demand side, consumers develop and use alternative materials or substitute technologies that use entirely different materials or simply find ways to get the same output with less material input. After these reactions on the supply and demand side a new pri...
to the in-group country bias literature, we theorize an “origin-backfire” effect: consumers forgive domestic brand transgressionsless. Analyzing experimental, social media, and secondary-longitudinal data, we find that consumers treat domestic brand transgressors as home-country traitors deserving ...