Artificial intelligence has evolved from early concepts like Turing's machine to today's advanced vision, machine learning and neural networks. AI revolutionizes various industries: manufacturing processes, financial services, healthcare and energy management. These applications highlight AI's...

Liberalisation and decarbonisation have transformed energy system coordination from internal engineering to a complex economic and digital challenge. Liberalisation replaced vertically integrated utilities with fragmented interactions among transmission operators, distribution operators,...

This study examines the wine revenues of the Rákóczi family and the exchange rates of wines stored in their cellars destined for foreign markets, based on surviving sources from the period between 1660 and 1709. The Rákóczi family, of Transylvanian princely descent, was among the largest...

Increasing competition and reducing market power are core interests of economists, regulators and the public to maximise aggregate social welfare. Low prices are achieved through intense competition in the retail gasoline market. The absence of fierce competition is referred to as market power....

Heterogeneous interconnections, which link regulated electricity markets to liberalised ones, are becoming increasingly important. Several such interconnections are set to be established in the near future especially between European and North African countries (e.g., Tunisia-Italy,...

Governments in low-income countries are increasingly integrating off-grid electricity provision into national electrification strategies, creating novel, decentralized markets for electricity. This paper studies a highly decentralized product that plays an important role in energy access: pay as...

The restaurant industry, especially fine dining, is characterized by intense competition and an increasing number of closures. Wine is a profit lever, but the exploitation of sales potential can present a challenge. As consumers encounter more extensive wine lists, they often find themselves...

The current Special Issue brought out the newest trends in Econophysics that have made use of the most recent available tools, such as Big Data. The emphasis of the reprint is on deciphering the effects of current world events, such as the repercussions of the recent war conflicts, the oil and...

ANR Patentes is an Argentinean program that gives grants for patents applications to innovative firms, entrepreneurs and researchers. Throughout the period 2007-2017, 83 projects (out of 195) were funded. Based on secondary sources and a survey conducted to beneficiaries, this study reconstructs...

The holistic behavioral approach of dynamic capabilities has led companies to respond to survive and improve in the face of the post-pandemic challenge. The objective was to analyze the effect that market orientation, learning orientation and innovation have on business resilience. A...

Food systems are undergoing a number of significant transformations in response to technological, economic, social and environmental changes. Transformations related to increased productivity, specialisation of farming systems, optimisation of resources, automation of farming operations, changes...

Vegetable crops are strongly affected by extreme weather phenomena (for example drought and floods), which disrupt the technological production process and favor the spread of diseases and pests, thus creating an unstable agricultural environment. In addition, these climate changes directly...

The purpose of this paper is to perform a comparative analysis of the technical and economic indicators for wheat and corn crops in Romania and the European Union, in the period 2015-2023. The paper focuses on the evolution of cultivated areas, productions and prices, with the objective of...

The aim of this paper is to explore the evolution of the market for berries and their benefits, both fresh and processed. The market for fresh berries is reserved for high quality berries and is growing. For the other qualities there is a whole food industry producing valuable products. The...

n recent decades, the global debate on gun control has been prominent, with many countries adopting more restrictive policies. Brazil followed this trend by implementing stringent measures in 2003; however, the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro in 2019 introduced normative changes aimed at facilitating...

As the narratives about the future of banks seem to lack of theoretical rigour, the paper undertakes a very fundamental analysis of what economic theories can tell us about the future of banks. The New Institutional Economics portrays new challengers as perfecting the market and thereby...

Being a farmer is far more complex than we often consider. The job includes the capacity to organise and combine factors of production (land, capital and especially labour) and simultaneously meet the needs of consumers and many other things. To do so, the farmer has to face, time and again,...

Artificial intelligence has evolved from early concepts like Turing's machine to today's advanced vision, machine learning and neural networks. AI revolutionizes various industries: manufacturing processes, financial services, healthcare and energy management. These applications highlight AI's...

As the narratives about the future of banks seem to lack of theoretical rigour, the paper undertakes a very fundamental analysis of what economic theories can tell us about the future of banks. The New Institutional Economics portrays new challengers as perfecting the market and thereby...

The aim of this paper is to explore the evolution of the market for berries and their benefits, both fresh and processed. The market for fresh berries is reserved for high quality berries and is growing. For the other qualities there is a whole food industry producing valuable products. The...

Food systems are undergoing a number of significant transformations in response to technological, economic, social and environmental changes. Transformations related to increased productivity, specialisation of farming systems, optimisation of resources, automation of farming operations, changes...

The purpose of this paper is to perform a comparative analysis of the technical and economic indicators for wheat and corn crops in Romania and the European Union, in the period 2015-2023. The paper focuses on the evolution of cultivated areas, productions and prices, with the objective of...

Vegetable crops are strongly affected by extreme weather phenomena (for example drought and floods), which disrupt the technological production process and favor the spread of diseases and pests, thus creating an unstable agricultural environment. In addition, these climate changes directly...

This study explores the economic cohesion of two German areas, Hamburg and Saxony, in the 18 th century, created through the inflow of Atlantic colonial groceries from the former to the latter. Combining different kinds of sources revealed the following. The trade flow from Hamburg to German...

The report is a useful reference for assessing country situations and trends, which are further explored in brief profiles of the major teak-producing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. There is currently no better source of up-to-date information on teak resources and markets. The...

The holistic behavioral approach of dynamic capabilities has led companies to respond to survive and improve in the face of the post-pandemic challenge. The objective was to analyze the effect that market orientation, learning orientation and innovation have on business resilience. A...

The global wine trade experienced a decline in volume and value in 2023 due to reduced real incomes, post-pandemic overstocking, and shifting consumer preferences. Non-sparkling red wines were more affected than sparkling wines, white wines and wines in bag-in-box formats, with notable declines...

This publication, developed in collaboration with Tameo, analyzes insights from the SSF Swiss Sustainable Investment Market Study 2024 and Swiss-specific data from the Tameo Private Asset Impact Fund Report 2023. Together, they provide a comprehensive view of the Swiss impact investing landscape...

In European intraday electricity markets, a systematic zigzag pattern can be observed, characterized by alternating maxima and minima at the shift of hourly products. This price formation contradicts the fundamental understanding, that prices to are a monotonously increasing function of residual...