In this paper we discuss the prioritisation of healthcare projects where there is a concern about health inequalities, but the decision maker is reluctant to make explicit quantitative value judgements and the data systems only allow the measurement of health at an aggregate level. Our analysis...

The European Agri-Environmental Measures (AEMs) have a relevant role in encouraging a sustainable resources use and developing environmentally-friendly farming practices. AEMs account for more than half of the rural development budget of the Common Agriculture Policy. However, despite their...

Researchers should be wary of the expectations framework and optimization method employed when drawing conclusions about the likely production behavior of farmers The article compares the predictive accuracy of two expectational schemes, supply-based expectations (SBE) and adaptive expectations...

Policymakers are concerned about nitrogen and phosphorus export to water bodies. Exports may be reduced by paying farmers to adopt practices to reduce runoff or by paying performance incentives tied to estimated run-off reductions. We evaluate the cost-effectiveness of practice and performance...

Globally, land use changes and deforestation contribute with around 20% of the green house gases emissions. Payments for Environmental Services (PES) schemes constitute a way to cope with these problems and promote the conservation of natural resources using market-based incentives. Through...

This article investigates the possibilities of including policy choices directly into a sector model that simulates an economic equilibrium It uses a mathematical programming framework because these models have wide applicability in agricultural sector analysis The objective function is...

This paper studies decision rules for accepting reservations for stays in a hotel based on deterministic and stochastic mathematical programming techniques. Booking control strategies are constructed that include ideas for nesting, booking limits and bid prices. We allow for multiple day stays....

Airline seat inventory control is a very profitable tool in the airline industry. Mathematical programming models provide booking limits or bid-prices for all itineraries and fare classes based on demand forecasts. But the actual revenue generated in the booking process fails to meet...

The editing-and-imputation problem concerns the question of finding errors in a record which does not satisfy a set of consistency rules. Once some potential errors have been localizated, it is also necessary to impute new values to the associated fields. The output dataset should consist of...