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Social interactions and complex networks
Opolot, Daniel - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2012
This paper studies the impact of interaction topologies on individual and aggregate behavior in environments with social interactions. We study social interaction games of an infnitely large population with local and global externalities. Local externalities are limited within agents'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653059
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Factors affecting adoption of improved sorghum varieties in Tanzania under information and capital constraints
Kaliba, Aloyce R.; Mazvimavi, Kizito; Gregory, Theresia L. - In: Agricultural and Food Economics 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-21
Low adoption of agricultural technology is among the main reasons for low farm productivity and high incidence of … adoption of improved sorghum varieties using data from 822 randomly selected sample households in northern and central Tanzania …. We employ a multiple-hurdle Tobit model to assess the factors affecting adoption after controlling for both capital and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012613816
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Who is afraid of electric vehicles? An analysis of stated EV preferences in Switzerland
Van Dijk, Jeremy; Farsi, Mehdi - 2022
We provide novel evidence for the size of key electric vehicle (EV) adoption barriers, purchase price and battery range … consumer segments, plus determine groups most resistant to EV adoption and the relationship with transport habits and car … favourable adoption criteria, however realises a low EV market share. We find low and inelastic elasticities of price, range and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013394367
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Innovation begets innovation and concentration: The case of upstream oil & gas in the North Sea
Fioretti, Michele; Iaria, Alessandro; Janssen, Aljoscha; … - 2022
The mixed-demand model allows for very flexible specification of what should be considered endogenous and exogenous in demand system estimation. This paper introduces a revealed preference framework to analyze the mixed-demand model. The proposed methods can be used to test whether observed data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278164
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Cross-country cross-technology digitalisation: A Bayesian hierarchical model perspective
Hoffreumon, Charles; Labhard, Vincent - 2022
In this article, we present a new perspective on forecasting technology adoption, focused on the extensive margin of … adoption of multiple digital technologies in multiple countries. We do this by applying a Bayesian hierarchical structure to … to assess and predict both the adoption process and the uncertainty surrounding the data, and is robust to the use of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278378
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Farmer heterogeneity and differential livelihood impacts of oil palm expansion among smallholders in Sumatra, Indonesia
Krishna, Vijesh V.; Euler, Michael; Siregar, Hermanto; … - 2015
case of comparative advantage. Differential consumption impacts of observed variables are evident across adoption and non-adoption … palm adoption. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325629
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Innovation begets innovation and concentration : the case of upstream oil & gas in the North Sea
Fioretti, Michele; Iaria, Alessandro; Janssen, Aljoscha; … - 2022
The mixed-demand model allows for very flexible specification of what should be considered endogenous and exogenous in demand system estimation. This paper introduces a revealed preference framework to analyze the mixed-demand model. The proposed methods can be used to test whether observed data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013257002
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Who is afraid of electric vehicles? : an analysis of stated EV preferences in Switzerland
Dijk, Jeremy van; Farsi, Mehdi - 2022 - This version: May 2022
We provide novel evidence for the size of key electric vehicle (EV) adoption barriers, purchase price and battery range … consumer segments, plus determine groups most resistant to EV adoption and the relationship with transport habits and car … favourable adoption criteria, however realises a low EV market share. We find low and inelastic elasticities of price, range and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013257646
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Factors affecting adoption of improved sorghum varieties in Tanzania under information and capital constraints
Kaliba, Aloyce R.; Mazvimavi, Kizito; Gregory, Theresia L. - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 6 (2018) 18, pp. 1-21
Low adoption of agricultural technology is among the main reasons for low farm productivity and high incidence of … adoption of improved sorghum varieties using data from 822 randomly selected sample households in northern and central Tanzania …. We employ a multiple-hurdle Tobit model to assess the factors affecting adoption after controlling for both capital and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011964304
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Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Cultivation in Bihar, India: Economic Potential and Condition for Adoption
Singh, K.M.; Jha, A.K. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The MAPs provide opportunities for developing a variety of safe and cost effective, prophylactic, and curative medicines for a number of maladies. It is estimated that the primary health care of over 80 per cent of the world’s population still depends on plant based traditional medicines (WHO,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260503