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Spatial analysis of technical efficiency in the provision of local public goods: The case of Chilean mining municipalities 提供地方公共产品的技术效率空间分析：智利采矿城市的案例

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Socio-economic Planning Sciences Pub Date : 2024-09-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2024.102075

Cristóbal Vásquez-Quezada , Mauricio Oyarzo

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Machine learning embedded hybrid MCDM model to mitigate decision uncertainty in transport safety planning for OAS countries 嵌入机器学习的混合 MCDM 模型，用于减少美洲国家组织国家运输安全规划中的决策不确定性

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Socio-economic Planning Sciences Pub Date : 2024-09-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2024.102082

Weijie Zhou , Hanrui Feng , Zeyu Guo , Huating Jia , Yue Li , Xinyue Luo , Siwei Ran , Hanming Zhang , Ziyu Zhou , Jiakai Yuan , Jiaxin Liu , Shijie Sun , Faan Chen

{"title":"Machine learning embedded hybrid MCDM model to mitigate decision uncertainty in transport safety planning for OAS countries","authors":"Weijie Zhou , Hanrui Feng , Zeyu Guo , Huating Jia , Yue Li , Xinyue Luo , Siwei Ran , Hanming Zhang , Ziyu Zhou , Jiakai Yuan , Jiaxin Liu , Shijie Sun , Faan Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102082","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102082","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Providing defensible decisions is a prerequisite for methodologies of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) activities, and this is especially true for socio-economic analysis in public sector. This study proposes an all-in-one MCDM model with machine learning algorithms. The model integrates the method based on the removal effects of criteria (MEREC), combined compromise solution (CoCoSo), and density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN), i.e., MEREC–CoCoSo–DBSCAN. In particular, the uniform manifold approximation and projection (UMAP) is implanted in DBSCAN to reduce the data dimensionality, and the k-nearest neighbors (KNN) algorithm is embedded to determine the inflection points (<em>ɛ</em>) and <em>minPts</em> in the data. This counters the inherent model failure of DBSCAN in dealing with high-dimensional data and eliminates the requirement for manual intervention in the model procedure, thereby fully avoiding potential human error and automating the computing process. A case study on benchmarking transport safety systems for member countries of the Organization of American States (OAS) demonstrates the reliability, adaptability, and efficiency of the proposed model. It moreover reflects its feasibility in resolving real-life socio-economic issues by offering valuable insights and potential solutions in economic investment and funding allocation in regard to transport safety strategy. Overall, this study provides government officials, managers, and policymakers with a valuable tool for handling MCDM activities in socio-economic development with considerable practicality and credibility.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":"96 ","pages":"Article 102082"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142418751","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}

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Technical efficiency and managerial ability in two-stage production processes with undesirable products: A case on Asian banks 有不良产品的两阶段生产过程中的技术效率和管理能力：亚洲银行案例

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Socio-economic Planning Sciences Pub Date : 2024-09-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2024.102081

Alireza Amirteimoori , Gang Kou

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A reassessment of graduation modeling for policy design 重新评估用于政策设计的毕业模型

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Socio-economic Planning Sciences Pub Date : 2024-09-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2024.102079

Matteo Corsi , Enrico di Bella , Luca Persico

{"title":"A reassessment of graduation modeling for policy design","authors":"Matteo Corsi , Enrico di Bella , Luca Persico","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102079","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102079","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A vast and diverse literature estimates graduation chances using logistic models set in an arbitrary timeframe, where a graduation indicator is checked at a conventional point in time and associated with covariates measured at some date. Survival models emerged over time as a robust alternative, for being able to estimate time-to-degree and time-varying effects of predictors. This paper reconsiders the effectiveness of both modeling approaches in addressing policy-relevant questions, particularly in light of the increasingly automated and algorithm-based educational policies. We find that both methods exhibit blind spots and limitations, but that adopting a simple pragmatic approach logistic models can achieve a comparable level of effectiveness at depicting graduation dynamics while also being capable of answering questions that are problematic for survival models. We exploit a unique dataset and the nature of discrete-time survival models as combinations of logistic regressions run at different times to illustrate how arbitrary timeframes impact the estimates of a logistic model of graduation. Conversely, we illustrate how separately running and analyzing all the distinct logistic regressions provides insights that are unlikely to come from a survival model.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":"96 ","pages":"Article 102079"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142418750","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}

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A PLS-Hierarchical Path Modeling approach to analyze and address gender equality in the EU countries 分析和解决欧盟国家性别平等问题的 PLS-Hierarchical Path Modeling 方法

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Socio-economic Planning Sciences Pub Date : 2024-09-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2024.102076

Rosanna Cataldo , Clelia Cascella , Maria Gabriella Grassia , Carlo Natale Lauro , Viktoriya Voytsekhovska

{"title":"A PLS-Hierarchical Path Modeling approach to analyze and address gender equality in the EU countries","authors":"Rosanna Cataldo , Clelia Cascella , Maria Gabriella Grassia , Carlo Natale Lauro , Viktoriya Voytsekhovska","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102076","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102076","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Gender equality, a multidimensional and complex phenomenon, is a hotly debated subject today, and its studio has grown enormously in recent years. After reviewing existing gender equality indices and identifying the methodological approaches used to develop them, the paper aims to show how a modeling approach can overcome some of the limitations of existing indices. Based on a conceptual framework developed by the European Institute for Gender Equality, we propose an alternative methodological approach for measuring gender equality. The paper aims to highlight the potential advantages of Partial Least Square - Path modeling and to show that it goes a step further compared to the European Gender Equality Index in that in addition to ranking countries, our approach allows (1) predicting the impact between dimensions and finding those that most effectively explain gender equality; and (2) supporting decisions to address gender equality. The use of the proposed model can help to understand the complexity of gender relations and facilitate comparisons across countries. At the end of the paper, we discuss other possible extensions of PLS-PM to study and address gender equality.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":"96 ","pages":"Article 102076"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142359428","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}

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Assessing airline efficiency with a network DEA model: A Z-number approach with shared resources, undesirable outputs, and negative data 利用网络 DEA 模型评估航空公司效率：具有共享资源、不良产出和负面数据的 Z 数字方法

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Socio-economic Planning Sciences Pub Date : 2024-09-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2024.102080

Zijiang Yang , Hashem Omrani , Raha Imanirad

{"title":"Assessing airline efficiency with a network DEA model: A Z-number approach with shared resources, undesirable outputs, and negative data","authors":"Zijiang Yang , Hashem Omrani , Raha Imanirad","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102080","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102080","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study measures the efficiency of airlines using a novel fuzzy common weight additive network data envelopment analysis (NDEA) with shared resources, negative data, and undesirable outputs. First, an appropriate two-stage network is designed for each airline so that stages 1 and 2 are called the Production and Service stages, respectively. The proposed model adopts a top-down approach and calculates the efficiency of the system first and then estimates the efficiency of stages 1 and 2. To evaluate and predict the airlines’ efficiency considering fuzzy data and the reliability of the information, the values of input/intermediate/output variables are predicted as the Z-number and the appropriate Z-number version of NDEA (ZNDEA) models is proposed. To develop the proposed ZNDEA models and find common weights for the variables, three multi-objective ZNDEA models for the system, stage 1 and stage 2 are presented. The multi-objective common weight ZNDEA models are solved using the min-max Chebyshev goal programming technique and the final efficiencies are calculated. To illustrate the capability of the proposed approach, real-life data from Iranian airlines in 2022 are collected, and the efficiencies are analyzed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":"96 ","pages":"Article 102080"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142326886","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}

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Measuring business impacts on the sustainability of European-listed firms 衡量企业对欧洲上市公司可持续性的影响

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Socio-economic Planning Sciences Pub Date : 2024-09-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2024.102078

Rita Laura D’Ecclesia , Susanna Levantesi , Kevyn Stefanelli

{"title":"Measuring business impacts on the sustainability of European-listed firms","authors":"Rita Laura D’Ecclesia , Susanna Levantesi , Kevyn Stefanelli","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102078","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102078","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) themes assume a central position in the foundation of business strategies and risk management for both private managers and financial institutions. Measuring the sustainability commitment of listed companies is required by regulators and Monetary Authorities and plays a pivotal role in the selection process for asset management companies. ESG ratings are used to assess the company’s commitment to sustainability. This paper explores how a firm business, measured by balance sheet data, influences the ESG rating. In particular, we focus on Europe, which countries first paved the way for the sustainable transformation of the economy through various policies and initiatives. We employ a Machine Learning approach to discern the non-linear relationships between ESG ratings and corporate data aiming to identify the prime factors influencing the ESG ratings. We can assess potential country or business sector-based discrepancies by selecting a sample containing firms listed on the major European indices (AEX, BEL, CAC, DAX, FTSE, FTSE-MIB, IBEX, OMX). We find that the firm size, measured by total assets, and the carbon intensity are the variables that most influence the ESG rating in countries where the economic sectors rely mainly on the business cycle and economic conditions. For companies operating in the technology, financials, and industrial sectors, the main ESG driver is the asset turnover ratio, which is a measure of the efficiency with which a company generates revenues, and the EBIT to revenue, which is a measure of the operating margin asset turnover and the Earnings Before Interest and Taxes (EBIT) to revenue ratio. We discover diverse factors affecting ESG ratings across various European countries, highlighting the impact of each nation’s policy on ESG commitment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":"96 ","pages":"Article 102078"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142323803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Integrated sustainability perspective and spillover effects of social, environment and economic pillars: A case study using SEY model 综合可持续性视角以及社会、环境和经济支柱的溢出效应：利用 SEY 模型进行案例研究

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Socio-economic Planning Sciences Pub Date : 2024-09-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2024.102077

Hao Huang , Faeze Akbari

{"title":"Integrated sustainability perspective and spillover effects of social, environment and economic pillars: A case study using SEY model","authors":"Hao Huang , Faeze Akbari","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102077","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102077","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the integrated sustainability perspective by mapping the spillover effects among sustainable development pillars including social, environment, and economy. To this end, it estimates the sustainability elasticities between a developing country, Iran, and six global regions including 1- North America, 2- Latin America and Caribbean, 3- European Union, 4- Sub-Saharan Africa, 5- Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and 6- East Asia and Pacific. This estimation uses the SEY model, an econometric package involving simultaneous equations systems, Vector Autoregressive models (VAR), and Granger causality within 1971–2019. This research differs from the previous studies by exploring the sustainability spillovers not only spatially but also across various pillars of sustainable development. The results show that the pillars of sustainable development have significant and positive elasticities. This finding accepts the integrated sustainability perspective since the pillars of sustainable development indicate considerable and synergistic effects from both spatial and contextual outlooks. In this way, the findings support globalization, openness, and flow-based governance, consistent with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 16 (Peace, justice and strong institutions) and 17 (Partnerships for the goals). Therefore, policymakers should strengthen the globalization and openness by establishing and promoting international agreements, global organizations, and inclusive frameworks not only in trade, finance, and economy but also in cultural, social, and political affairs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":"96 ","pages":"Article 102077"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142359427","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}

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Logistics planning for direct temporary disaster housing assistance under demand uncertainty 需求不确定情况下的直接临时救灾住房援助后勤规划

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Socio-economic Planning Sciences Pub Date : 2024-09-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2024.102072

Sheng-Yin Chen , Yongjia Song , Dustin Albright , Weichiang Pang

{"title":"Logistics planning for direct temporary disaster housing assistance under demand uncertainty","authors":"Sheng-Yin Chen , Yongjia Song , Dustin Albright , Weichiang Pang","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102072","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102072","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, we propose and study a framework for disaster housing logistics planning under demand uncertainty. Specifically, we utilize a two-stage chance-constrained stochastic programming model to achieve the balance between logistics operational cost and demand fulfillment especially towards extreme disaster scenarios. To do so, we incorporate two operational modalities, one for the ordinary modality and the other for the emergency modality, and the emergency modality is only allowed to be activated for a certain percentage of scenarios that is specified by the decision maker among all scenarios. The set of scenarios is generated according to a spatial regression model for characterizing the disaster housing demand based on a selected number of independent variables related to both the hazard and socioeconomic factors, which is trained offline from historical data. We conduct a numerical experiment based on Hurricane Ian, and our numerical results show the effectiveness of the proposed approach compared to some standard benchmark approaches. We also highlight the managerial insights for disaster housing logistics planning gained through this numerical experiment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":"96 ","pages":"Article 102072"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142323804","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}

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Designing a new robust solid waste recycling network under uncertainty: A case study about circular economy transition 在不确定情况下设计新的稳健固体废物回收网络：循环经济转型案例研究

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Socio-economic Planning Sciences Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2024.102066

Yilin Wang , Yankui Liu , Huili Pei

{"title":"Designing a new robust solid waste recycling network under uncertainty: A case study about circular economy transition","authors":"Yilin Wang , Yankui Liu , Huili Pei","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102066","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102066","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Solid waste generation continuously puts tremendous pressure on human health, socio-economic and environmental protection, and many regions are transitioning to the circular economy using waste recycling to advance sustainable development. A more practical and integrated solid waste recycling network (SWRN) design is essential for solid waste recycling management, which can be complex and uncertain. Therefore, this paper focuses on the design of a robust SWRN that aims to optimize the construction of sorting centers (SCs) while robustly operating with waste recycling allocation. This approach often involves two main challenges related to the uncertainty of unknown distribution information and the bi-level structure of decision making. To address these challenges, we first present two pairs of uncertainty sets to capture the separation rate and transportation cost in the case of free distribution information. Then, we develop a bi-level framework that integrates SC construction locations and waste operation allocation. For this purpose, a globalized robust optimization bi-level model is developed and reformulated into a mixed integer linear programming. We apply this methodology to the case of Baoding, China to demonstrate its validity. The main numerical achievements show that: (1) the proposed model can hedge the uncertainty in the separation rate and transportation cost with a small price of robustness and provide a robust recovery scheme; (2) the average operating cost of our model for a single period is approximately 19.4% lower than that of the classical robust model; and (3) by adjusting several parameters based on the preferences of waste recycling managers, a balance between operating costs and robustness can be achieved. Finally, some managerial insights are obtained to assist waste recycling managers in solid waste recycling management transition to the circular economy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":"96 ","pages":"Article 102066"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142239549","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}

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