Besides international efforts to address poverty and hunger, there are still many disparities among households, therefore innovative approaches and techniques are required to address the multiple facets of poverty, especially food poverty.
Given the complexity in defining this phenomenon, the fuzzy approach based on an expenditure-related metric is adopted as it provides valuable insights into the Italian food poverty situation thus improving the results generally provided using by the classical binary (or crisp) set theory.
By considering the equivalised household food expenditure obtained from the 2021 Italian Household Budget Survey data, the fuzzy set approach is used to measure food poverty paying particular attention to vulnerable households at a detailed territorial level. The results show that food poverty is lower in the Northern-Central regions than in Southern Italy and highlight the vulnerability of families with children and single-parent households.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-28DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2024.101991
Abdullah Coskun , F. Sibel Salman , Amirreza Pashapour
Pre-positioning relief inventory ensures timely delivery of in-kind aid after a catastrophe. Tragic disasters like major earthquakes are rare and unpredictable; therefore, stockpiled items may not be used. To avoid over-stocking and reduce shortage risk, the cooperation of two humanitarian agencies in supporting each other in case of shortages is suggested in the literature. In this study, we utilize newsvendor-based quantitative models to optimize the pre-disaster stocking decisions of agencies under centralized and decentralized cooperation mechanisms. In the former, both agencies jointly determine their inventory levels to maximize their combined benefits of relief operations, whereas, in the latter, each agency establishes its stocking level in isolation via a game theoretic approach. In both systems, the two agencies agree to transship their excessive items to the other party if needed. In this regard, we investigate the situation where only a portion of the transshipped items, denoted as the reliability factor, can be received and effectively utilized at the destination due to the chaotic nature of the disaster. Considering a deterministic reliability factor, we obtain the singular optimal inventory levels in the centralized system and identify the unique Nash Equilibrium in the decentralized system. Subsequently, we formulate a two-stage stochastic program, considering a random reliability factor for both cooperation systems. The study concludes by offering a range of managerial insights. Our analyses quantify the sub-optimality resulting from decentralized decision-making across diverse parameter settings using the concept of the price of anarchy. The findings highlight that centralized cooperation becomes particularly advisable when the average demand within either agency is high, the transshipment process is secure (i.e., the reliability factor is high), and transshipment costs remain low.
{"title":"Relief item inventory planning under centralized and decentralized bilateral cooperation and uncertain transshipment quantities","authors":"Abdullah Coskun , F. Sibel Salman , Amirreza Pashapour","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.101991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2024.101991","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Pre-positioning relief inventory ensures timely delivery of in-kind aid after a catastrophe. Tragic disasters like major earthquakes are rare and unpredictable; therefore, stockpiled items may not be used. To avoid over-stocking and reduce shortage risk, the cooperation of two humanitarian agencies in supporting each other in case of shortages is suggested in the literature. In this study, we utilize newsvendor-based quantitative models to optimize the pre-disaster stocking decisions of agencies under centralized and decentralized cooperation mechanisms. In the former, both agencies jointly determine their inventory levels to maximize their combined benefits of relief operations, whereas, in the latter, each agency establishes its stocking level in isolation via a game theoretic approach. In both systems, the two agencies agree to transship their excessive items to the other party if needed. In this regard, we investigate the situation where only a portion of the transshipped items, denoted as the reliability factor, can be received and effectively utilized at the destination due to the chaotic nature of the disaster. Considering a deterministic reliability factor, we obtain the singular optimal inventory levels in the centralized system and identify the unique Nash Equilibrium in the decentralized system. Subsequently, we formulate a two-stage stochastic program, considering a random reliability factor for both cooperation systems. The study concludes by offering a range of managerial insights. Our analyses quantify the sub-optimality resulting from decentralized decision-making across diverse parameter settings using the concept of the price of anarchy. The findings highlight that centralized cooperation becomes particularly advisable when the average demand within either agency is high, the transshipment process is secure (i.e., the reliability factor is high), and transshipment costs remain low.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141606773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-27DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2024.102002
Francesca Rivetti , Carla Rossi , Antonio Lucadamo
Scholars have only recently been focusing on the study of knowledge in the formation of loyalty in cultural festivals and much remains to be understood regarding this. The present study adopts a managerial standpoint and develops a knowledge-based model of attendee loyalty in cultural festivals in which the role of authenticity is also evaluated. It considers two knowledge-based constructs, prior knowledge and acquired knowledge, referring to the cultures and the traditions evoked during the festival, and intercepts their role with respect to loyalty also in conjunction with authenticity. Based on data collected from 306 attendees at a cultural festival organized annually in South Italy, a co-variance-based SEM was performed. Results highlight that prior and acquired knowledge positively influence loyalty. Perceived authenticity acts as a mediator in these relationships. These findings provide theoretical and practical implications for researchers and festival organizers.
学者们最近才开始关注知识在文化节忠诚度形成过程中的作用,这方面还有很多问题有待了解。本研究从管理角度出发,建立了一个基于知识的文化节参与者忠诚度模型,并对真实性的作用进行了评估。研究考虑了两个以知识为基础的概念,即先验知识和后天知识(指文化节期间唤起的文化和传统),并结合真实性截取了它们在忠诚度方面的作用。根据从意大利南部每年举办的文化节的 306 名参与者那里收集到的数据,进行了基于共变的 SEM 分析。结果表明,先验知识和后天知识对忠诚度有积极影响。在这些关系中,感知到的真实性起着中介作用。这些发现为研究人员和文化节组织者提供了理论和实践意义。
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Pub Date : 2024-06-27DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2024.102009
Yong-cong Yang , Hui-ting Liu , Li-bing Liu
Green transition driven by clean technology diffusion attaches importance to sustainable development. Therefore, choosing the optimal strategy in the inter-regional diffusion of clean technology has attracted the attention of local governments. In this regard, developed regions leading the R&D activities of clean technology can choose to fund or not fund diffusion, and developing regions can adopt absorption strategy or substitution strategy as well. An evolutionary game model was developed in this paper to analyze the stable strategies of local governments in the inter-regional diffusion of clean technology. In general, there are four possible stable equilibrium points. The result indicates that a collaboration relationship aiming at technology transfer among regions is likely to be established when developed regions and developing regions gain more from funding diffusion and subsidizing absorption, respectively. Especially, an increase of incentives from the central government, as well as an increase of cost performing independent clean R&D activities, improves the inter-regional diffusion network. This paper, therefore, provides a mathematical approach to examine the interaction of clean technology diffusion, and sheds light on actor behavior in games of inter-regional coordination.
{"title":"An evolutionary game for analysis of implementation strategies in inter-regional diffusion of clean technology","authors":"Yong-cong Yang , Hui-ting Liu , Li-bing Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2024.102009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Green transition driven by clean technology diffusion attaches importance to sustainable development. Therefore, choosing the optimal strategy in the inter-regional diffusion of clean technology has attracted the attention of local governments. In this regard, developed regions leading the R&D activities of clean technology can choose to fund or not fund diffusion, and developing regions can adopt absorption strategy or substitution strategy as well. An evolutionary game model was developed in this paper to analyze the stable strategies of local governments in the inter-regional diffusion of clean technology. In general, there are four possible stable equilibrium points. The result indicates that a collaboration relationship aiming at technology transfer among regions is likely to be established when developed regions and developing regions gain more from funding diffusion and subsidizing absorption, respectively. Especially, an increase of incentives from the central government, as well as an increase of cost performing independent clean R&D activities, improves the inter-regional diffusion network. This paper, therefore, provides a mathematical approach to examine the interaction of clean technology diffusion, and sheds light on actor behavior in games of inter-regional coordination.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141596050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The analysis of social inequalities is a topic of current interest and is studied as a factor in the evolution and measurement of the level of well-being. A fundamental prerequisite for a correct statistical analysis of this phenomenon is the need to share a univocal definition of the concept of social inequalities. This work starts from the need to identify territorial areas and/or population subgroups characterized by situations of hardship or strong social exclusion through the construction of indicators that can estimate situations of social inequalities in small areas. Scientific research options have been oriented towards the establishment of a multidimensional approach, sometimes renouncing dichotomous logic to go as far as fuzzy classifications in which each unit simultaneously belongs and does not belong to the selected category. Multidimensional statistical analysis methodologies (TFR method) and Density Based Spatial Clustering methods (DBSCAN) will therefore be used to aggregate adjacent spatial units with high intensity of social inequalities.
{"title":"Multidimensional statistical analysis of social inequalities in Italy","authors":"Paola Perchinunno , Samuela L'Abbate , Corrado Crocetta , Leonardo Salvatore Alaimo","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2024.102005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The analysis of social inequalities is a topic of current interest and is studied as a factor in the evolution and measurement of the level of well-being. A fundamental prerequisite for a correct statistical analysis of this phenomenon is the need to share a univocal definition of the concept of social inequalities. This work starts from the need to identify territorial areas and/or population subgroups characterized by situations of hardship or strong social exclusion through the construction of indicators that can estimate situations of social inequalities in small areas. Scientific research options have been oriented towards the establishment of a multidimensional approach, sometimes renouncing dichotomous logic to go as far as fuzzy classifications in which each unit simultaneously belongs and does not belong to the selected category. Multidimensional statistical analysis methodologies (TFR method) and Density Based Spatial Clustering methods (DBSCAN) will therefore be used to aggregate adjacent spatial units with high intensity of social inequalities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141482127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-26DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2024.102001
Ching-to Albert Ma
I study individual consumers’ choices of getting vaccinated. A vaccine reduces the severity of an infectious illness, but may produce side-effects and other disutilities at the time of administration. Such private benefits and disutilities vary across consumers in the population. The infection probability depends negatively on the total mass of vaccinated consumers. This is an externality. One consumer’s vaccination choice has negligible contribution to the total mass of vaccinated consumers. Consumers do not internalize the externality. I characterize a unique Vaccination Equilibrium, the sustainable vaccination mass resulting from individual decisions. I show how vaccine improvements in benefits, side-effects, and infection likelihood change the Vaccination Equilibrium. The first-best or efficient vaccination mass takes into account the externality and consumers’ benefits and costs. The unique Vaccination Equilibrium is never first best. Taxes, subsidies, and mandates may change the Vaccination Equilibrium.
{"title":"Vaccination equilibrium: Externality and efficiency","authors":"Ching-to Albert Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2024.102001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>I study individual consumers’ choices of getting vaccinated. A vaccine reduces the severity of an infectious illness, but may produce side-effects and other disutilities at the time of administration. Such private benefits and disutilities vary across consumers in the population. The infection probability depends negatively on the total mass of vaccinated consumers. This is an externality. One consumer’s vaccination choice has negligible contribution to the total mass of vaccinated consumers. Consumers do not internalize the externality. I characterize a unique Vaccination Equilibrium, the sustainable vaccination mass resulting from individual decisions. I show how vaccine improvements in benefits, side-effects, and infection likelihood change the Vaccination Equilibrium. The first-best or efficient vaccination mass takes into account the externality and consumers’ benefits and costs. The unique Vaccination Equilibrium is never first best. Taxes, subsidies, and mandates may change the Vaccination Equilibrium.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141596070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-26DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2024.102004
Ali Mahmoodirad , Dragan Pamucar , Sadegh Niroomand
In this study, the classical CCR-IO DEA model (an input-oriented form of the DEA model of Charnes, Cooper, and Rhodes (1978)) is extended to an intuitionistic fuzzy environment. For this aim, the trapezoidal intuitionistic fuzzy numbers are used to show the values of inputs and outputs. An intuitionistic fuzzy number is characterized by membership, non-membership, and hesitancy degrees. Therefore, such type of fuzzy numbers is more complete and contains more information to reflect a fuzzy type of uncertainty comparing to the conventional fuzzy values. In order to solve the proposed intuitionistic fuzzy CCR-IO model, for the first time a possibility-based approach is developed for the intuitionistic fuzzy DEA models. In this approach for the first time the measure of fuzzy events is extended to intuitionistic fuzzy DEA models, therefore, some new definitions and propositions are presented and clarified. This measure is more flexible and effective comparing to the other measures such as credibility, necessity, and possibility measures. A case study from the health care sector of Iran is considered to evaluate the proposed solution approach numerically. The case study is solved under different scenarios, a full sensitivity analysis is performed, and finally some useful managerial insights are presented. In addition, the results of the proposed intuitionistic CCR-IO model are compared to the classical models of the literature.
在本研究中,经典的 CCR-IO DEA 模型(Charnes、Cooper 和 Rhodes(1978 年)DEA 模型的一种以输入为导向的形式)被扩展到直觉模糊环境中。为此,我们使用梯形直观模糊数来表示输入和输出的值。直观模糊数的特征是成员度、非成员度和犹豫度。因此,与传统的模糊值相比,这类模糊数更完整,包含更多信息,能反映模糊类型的不确定性。为了解决所提出的直觉模糊 CCR-IO 模型,我们首次为直觉模糊 DEA 模型开发了一种基于可能性的方法。在这种方法中,模糊事件的度量首次扩展到了直观模糊 DEA 模型,因此提出并阐明了一些新的定义和命题。与可信度、必要性和可能性等其他度量方法相比,这种度量方法更加灵活有效。为了对所提出的解决方法进行数字评估,我们考虑了伊朗医疗保健行业的一个案例研究。该案例研究在不同情况下进行求解,并进行了全面的敏感性分析,最后提出了一些有用的管理见解。此外,还将所提出的直观 CCR-IO 模型的结果与文献中的经典模型进行了比较。
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Pub Date : 2024-06-24DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2024.102003
Abdel Latef Anouze , May Mohamed Al Khalifa , Odeh Rashed Al-Jayyousi
The aim of this study is to propose a novel analytical framework to evaluate the national innovation system (NIS) based on dynamic-network data envelopment analysis. This framework is then applied to a sample of 23 countries involved in oil production, enabling a comparative analysis of their performance in relation to the top 10 innovative countries as determined by the Global Innovation Index (GII).
Unlike the GII, the proposed framework measures the efficiency score of each NIS, generates a new index based on these scores, suggests a set of target policies for countries aiming to improve their ranks, and conducts an in-depth longitudinal analysis to identify the underlying factors influencing efficiency dynamic over time.
The empirical results show that the efficiency of the selected countries remains relatively steady over the designated study period. Upon closer examination at the country level, it becomes evident that Korea and Sweden emerge as the frontrunners in terms of performance, thereby establishing themselves as leaders in the field of innovation. Germany and Ukraine are identified as leaders in knowledge development, whereas Romania and Singapore are recognized as leaders in knowledge commercialization.
To enhance the performance of the inefficient NIS, this study proposes targeted improvement policies, prioritizing underperforming countries to elevate their overall innovation system. These policy interventions aim to bridge the gap between the least efficient nations and global best practices, fostering a more competitive innovation landscape. Ultimately, the proposed analytical framework holds the potential to foster the performance of each country's national innovation system.
{"title":"Reevaluating national innovation systems: An index based on dynamic-network data envelopment analysis","authors":"Abdel Latef Anouze , May Mohamed Al Khalifa , Odeh Rashed Al-Jayyousi","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2024.102003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The aim of this study is to propose a novel analytical framework to evaluate the national innovation system (NIS) based on dynamic-network data envelopment analysis. This framework is then applied to a sample of 23 countries involved in oil production, enabling a comparative analysis of their performance in relation to the top 10 innovative countries as determined by the Global Innovation Index (GII).</p><p>Unlike the GII, the proposed framework measures the efficiency score of each NIS, generates a new index based on these scores, suggests a set of target policies for countries aiming to improve their ranks, and conducts an in-depth longitudinal analysis to identify the underlying factors influencing efficiency dynamic over time.</p><p>The empirical results show that the efficiency of the selected countries remains relatively steady over the designated study period. Upon closer examination at the country level, it becomes evident that Korea and Sweden emerge as the frontrunners in terms of performance, thereby establishing themselves as leaders in the field of innovation. Germany and Ukraine are identified as leaders in knowledge development, whereas Romania and Singapore are recognized as leaders in knowledge commercialization.</p><p>To enhance the performance of the inefficient NIS, this study proposes targeted improvement policies, prioritizing underperforming countries to elevate their overall innovation system. These policy interventions aim to bridge the gap between the least efficient nations and global best practices, fostering a more competitive innovation landscape. Ultimately, the proposed analytical framework holds the potential to foster the performance of each country's national innovation system.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141482125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-21DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2024.101998
Carla Galluccio, Francesca Giambona
This study investigates the role of museums and cultural heritage in local development, highlighting their ability to attract tourists, generate revenue, and promote inclusion and cultural diversity. According to traditional economic theory, cultural heritage provides positive externalities, enhancing employment and improving human and social capital, all while adhering to principles of sustainability. In this context, the Italian Survey on Museums and Other Cultural Institutions offers extensive data on heritage conservation, accessibility, and visitor services. Utilising this longitudinal data, we conduct a latent transition analysis to examine the evolution of the Italian museum sector with a focus on regional differences and museums’ dimension. Our findings classify Italian museums into three homogeneous sustainability states. Additionally, museum size positively affects both the initial and transition probabilities, while the macro-area significantly influences only the initial probability.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-21DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2024.102000
Jie Wu , Zeeshan Rasool , Sajid Ali , Raima Nazar
In today's rapidly changing global economy, economic policy uncertainty has become a significant determinant of financial stability. With the increasing complexity and interconnectedness of financial markets, any fluctuations or uncertainties in economic policy can have far-reaching consequences. Ongoing research analyzes the impact of economic policy uncertainty on financial stability in the ten selected nations distinguished by heightened economic policy uncertainty (Argentina, Turkey, Brazil, India, Russia, Pakistan, Colombia, Indonesia, South Africa, and the Philippines). Preceding research has utilized panel data techniques to scrutinize the tie between economic policy uncertainty and financial stability. However, these investigations often failed to account for the fact that not all countries exhibit the same level of connection in this regard. Conversely, this research employs a distinctive approach, ‘Quantile-on-Quantile', to dissect the relationship within individual countries. This approach grants an exhaustive worldwide standpoint and customized foresight specific to each nation. The results indicate that economic policy uncertainty reduces financial stability within distinct sections of the data distribution. In addition, the outcomes emphasize the diverse levels of asymmetry characterizing this relationship across various nations. These findings underscore the significance of policymakers' prudent consideration and meticulous handling of policies related to economic policy uncertainty and financial stability.
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