The question of whether two drugs - namely alcohol and tobacco - are used as complements or substitutes is of crucial interest if side-effects of anti-smoking policies are considered. Numerous papers have empirically addressed this issue by estimating demand systems for alcohol and tobacco and...

The demand for high-performance energy storage devices such as supercapacitors and lithium-ion batteries has been increasing to meet the application requirements of renewable energy systems. Here, high energy and power density Ti doped WO 3 supercapacitor is reported based on the modified glassy...

"In 2018, Canada became only the second country in the world to legalize cannabis. The High North is a groundbreaking collection that examines the run-up to legalization and its aftermath, while disrupting widely accepted narratives about legalization in Canada. What does cannabis legalization...

It is argued that drug consumption, most commonly alcohol drinking, can be a technology to give up some control over one’s actions and words. It can be employed by trustworthy players to reveal their type. Similarly alcohol can function as a “social lubricant” and faciliate type revelation...

Drug consumption in Thailand is high in comparison with other countries. A key factor influencing this over consumption is advertising. Radio is the media that can easily reach a lot of people, in both urban and rural areas. Thai people typically practice self-care by purchasing drugs from a...

It is quite often in economics that we wish to model a discrete ordered random variable, such as bond ratings, employment status, consumption levels and so on. However, traditional approaches to modelling such a discrete ordered random variable ignore both the potential build-up of zero...