Purpose Over the past two decades, consequential life cycle assessment (CLCA) has
emerged as a modeling approach for capturing environmental impacts of product systems …

The continuing process of global integration bears implications for farmers and related
supplying and processing industries in all parts of the world, but also for the rest of the world …

Delineating the tremendous growth in this area, the Handbook of Approximation Algorithms
and Metaheuristics covers fundamental, theoretical topics as well as advanced, practical …

The concept of competitiveness, or competitive advantage, has been given numerous
interpretations and tends to be ambiguous. Comparative advantage, although rigorously …

This paper studies matching in vertical networks, generalizing the theory of matching in two-
sided markets. It gives sufficient conditions for the existence of stable networks and presents …

Because of concern that tariff reductions in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development (oecd) countries will translate into worsening export performance for the least …

Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) of economic, environmental, and social effects
triggered by governmental policies has become a central requirement for policy design. The …

Trade protection costs the European Community between 6 and 7 percent of its gross
domestic product, or the equivalent of the annual economic output of Spain. Continuing the …

Major sports events are used increasingly by policy-makers to stimulate economic
development. This has resulted in a growth of academic interest in ways of analysing their …

For many years there has been wide recognition of the economic impact that major sports
events can generate in attracting visitors and event-related construction investment. This …