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Effect of consumption value on consumer willingness to consume GM food mediating role of consumer attitude, ethnocentrism, and animosity post Covid-19: A comparative study.
No full textIn this research, we debate the critical challenges posed by the COVID‐19 pandemic such as food scarcity, by examining the influence of consumption values on consumers’ willingness to consume genetically modified (GM) food in the presence of consumer food attitudes, animosity, and ethnocentrism, which could be the one possible option to deal with the food scarcity problem. The proposed relationship could help to understand the complex societal problem of food scarcity and import dependency in the food sector before and after the crisis. Therefore, based on the theory of consumption values, we investigated government actions, consumer attitudes, and their willingness to consume GM food through 1340 valid USA responses and 1065 Chinese responses. We observed that COVID‐19 doubled the number of malnourished people in 2020 relative to 2019, while consumption values, to some extent, changed consumer food attitudes and were inclined toward other food alternatives such as GM food regardless of governmental support for GM food in both USA and China. Moreover, this research enables governments, policymakers, market practitioners, and other stakeholders to use the COVID‐19 crisis as an opportunity to negotiate with other countries to share their food technology along with imports
Innovation sharing a remedial measure: the case of Covid-19 pandemic
No full textThis study has aimed to analyse the role of innovation-sharing collaboration in the large-scale manufacturing of Covid-19 vaccination across the globe and its impact on the mortality rate of the countries where the pharmaceutical manufacturers received such innovation.Design/methodology/approachThe authors have relied upon the difference-in-difference (DID) approach by utilizing the data available on public platforms such as World Health Organization (WHO) databank, organization for economic co-operation and development (OECD) data bank, istat, Indian bureau of statistics and European centre for disease prevention and control (ecdc) from 2020 to 2021 to establish the empirical inference of the analysis.FindingsThis study's results present that after the invention and commercialization of the vaccine, the Covid-19 impact was still intact and people were dying continuously. However, it was impossible to fulfil the demand of the 7 billion population in a short time. In the light of these facts, the WHO encouraged sharing vaccine innovation with other countries to enhance production capacity. The authors found that after vaccine innovation sharing, Covid-19's devastation slowed: the fatality rate was marginally reduced, and economic conditions started their recovery journey.Originality/valueThis study's findings present that the Covid-19 vaccine played a pivotal role in tackling the Covid-19's devastating impact on the entire world. It emphasizes the role of innovation-sharing collaborations in curtailing hazardous consequences, including the mortality rate during a crisis, and such collaborations' impact on the countries where institutions involved in them reside
Tax Base-Broadening a Light at the End of the Tunnel in the Fiscal Consolidation Dynamics
No full textIt is an open secret that the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2007-2008 and the COVID-19 pandemic have contributed to the augmentation of indebtedness worldwide. The World Bank, in its study, Finding the tipping point: when sovereign debt turns bad, has suggested the potential role of tax base expansion as a remedial measure of surging indebtedness (Mehmet et al., 2010). We have employed a DSGE model to observe the impact of tax base expansion on the output (GDP), and Debt/GDP ratio. The empirical outlook of the study is based on the framework of independent monetary policy and the presence of significant public debt in an economy. The tax base expansion has been attained from the Non-Ricardian household segment; the reason behind such selection is the unique position, inability to optimize their utility and lack of access to formal financial components of an economy, of this segment in any economy. Our findings are aligned with the existing literature. We found that fiscal consolidation has no immediate impact on both output and the Debt/GDP ratio. The gradual reduction and increase emerge in the Debt/GDP ratio, and output respectively, which last at the steady state in the long run. These outcomes endorse the tax base expansion as a viable option to tackle surging indebtedness and achieving meaningful fiscal consolidation
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The Role of Public and Private Interventions on the Evolution of Green Innovation in China
No full textChina's future economy is in jeopardy due to climate change, zero COVID policy, supply chain disruption, surging inflation, and the energy crisis due to Russia Ukraine war. Additionally, the government pledges to the Paris agreement and COP27: The UN Climate Change Conference to combat with climate change crisis through the reduction of carbon and greenhouse gases emission. In these uncertain conditions, climate pledges, and shifts to a greener economic system, it is essential to investigate the public and private interventions on the evolution of green innovation in China. Accordingly, we relied on public repositories, such as the World Bank, World Intellectual Property Organization, PatSnap, SIPR, China City Statistical Yearbook 2021, and the Peking University Digital Financial Inclusion Index of China from 2009 to 2021 in 280 Chinese cities, to investigate the role of public and private interventions in the growth of green innovation. Our findings indicate that one interquartile range increase in government intervention, imperative environment regulations, gross regional domestic product, investment in environmental pollution, actual foreign investment, market pull, and material increase the green innovation growth at the Chinese city level. At the same time, we did not find a significant relationship between energy and green innovation. Moreover, the study paves the path for policymakers to remodify and develop policies on the different authoritative levels, which can reshape the Chinese green economy in the long run
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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