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Irrigation water pricing between governmental policies and farmers' perception: implications for green-houses horticultural production in Teboulba (Tunisia) Universiteit Gent
A positive mathematical programming model was constructed in this study to assess the effect of three water pricing scenarios (willingness to pay, full cost recovery and intermediate prices) on Teboulba’s agricultural production systems. This region is known by its horticultural production conducted under green-houses. The effects of these scenarios were estimated for three groups of farmers from three irrigated districts. Results show that ...
Generic medicine pricing policies in Europe: current status and impact KU Leuven
Generic medicine pricing is an area of national responsibility of European Union countries. This article aims to present the current status and impact of generic medicine pricing policies in ambulatory care in Europe. The study conducts a literature review of policies relating to free-pricing systems, price-regulated systems, price differentiation, price competition and discounts, and tendering procedures; and a survey of European generic ...
Modeling the impact of product quality on dynamic pricing and advertising policies Universiteit Antwerpen
The marketing-mix of price–quality and advertising–quality relationship is well studied. Less understood is the price–advertising–quality relationship. This article fills the gap, investigating the interplay between price, advertising, and quality in an optimal control model. Our results generalize the condition of Dorfman–Steiner in a dynamic context. Also, they point to the impact of greater product quality on the dynamic policies of pricing ...
Optimal pricing and advertising policies for an entertainment event Universiteit Antwerpen
The paper suggests an optimal control model to determine optimal pricing and advertising policies for a one-time entertainment event. There are two periods, an initial period of regular price sales and a terminal period of last-minute sales at a (possibly) reduced price. The price in a period is constant over time. In the initial period, the organizers of the event advertise the event to potential attendees. If tickets are sold out by the end of ...
Waste pricing policies and cost efficiency in municipal waste services: The case of Flanders KU Leuven
Major changes in municipal solid waste (MSW)-related services, such as the collection system, often require important initial investments, while the benefits on the output side typically occur over a longer time perspective. However, when analyzing the association between such policy choices and cost efficiency of MSW collection and disposal, the time horizon is often not taken into account. This article advocates the use of the Malmquist ...
Intermodality and short sea shipping diversification, market segmentation, barriers and parameters influencing pricing policies Universiteit Antwerpen
Irrigation pricing policies and its impact on agricultural inputs demand in Tunisia: a DEA-based methodology Universiteit Gent
Policing Kosovo: bottom-up or top-down? Dilemmas of policing in transitional societies Universiteit Gent
Over the past two decades international policing missions have received a lot of scholarly attention. Police reform and international policing assistance has increasingly been perceived as crucial elements in peacebuilding operations. Indeed, the relationship between the creation of professional police forces and the development of Western civil democracies did not go unnoticed. The Weberian notion of the stateU+2019s monopoly over the ...