Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

1967 - 2025

Current editor(s): Barnett R. Parker

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Volume 100, issue C, 2025

Bank branch desertification and the design of a postal banking network

Silvia Baldassarre, Manuel Cavola and Eduardo Pipicelli

Does Confucian culture inhibit corporate greenwashing behavior? Evidence from China

Xintong Wu

Towards an optimal effect of government technology innovation policy mix: the case of government procurement and research and development subsidies with evidence from China

Fuguo Cao, Yusen Yang, Shaobo Guo and Andrea Appolloni

Assessing trade Efficiency: Insights from trade priority, environmental priority, and balanced strategies

Yu Zhu and Dawei Wang

Are migrants willing to pay more for better housing? The amenity effect in China's urban housing markets

Menglan Liu, Jian-gang Shi, Jianfu Shen and Eddie Chi Man Hui

A network analysis of skill-specific internal migration flows in Italy

A. Sarra, D. D'Ingiullo, A. Evangelista, E. Nissi, D. Quaglione and T. Di Battista

Asymmetric impact of human development index on terrorism in Pakistan: New findings from QARDL

Bushra Zulfiqar, Livia Madureira, Shujaat Abbas, Farrukh Shahzad and Zeeshan Fareed

An efficient algorithm for multi-modal skyport location problem with choice-based demand

Gwang Kim, Yoonjea Jeong and Youngchul Shin

Improving transit network resilience against disruptions through path redundancy

Christina Iliopoulou, Michail A. Makridis and Anastasios Kouvelas

A novel third-party mediation model based on minimum weight manipulation for addressing Sino-Kazakh transboundary water resource disputes

Zilong Huang, Shinan Zhao, Jun Wu and Sharafat Ali

Research on the collaborative mechanism of a data trading market based on a four-party evolutionary game in the context of digital intelligence

Yue Li, Guofu Li, Anfeng Xu and Fengmin Yao

Assessing bargaining and cooperation through longitudinal clustering analysis: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment

Edgardo Bucciarelli and Aurora Ascatigno

Effective strategies for the prediction of aircraft passenger seat (dis-)comfort based on Time Series Classification

Amalia Vanacore and Armando Ciardiello

The Compliance Officer in Nonprofit Cooperative Societies: Validation of the figure through the Best–Worst Method

Cristina Ortega-Rodríguez, Álvaro Labella and Ma del Consuelo Ruiz-Rodríguez

Foreward to the special issue: “Predictive and prescriptive analytics for service reorganization in times of transition”

Sebastian Birolini, Antonio Diglio, Chiara Morlotti and Carmela Piccolo

The impact of public health policies on online food delivery services in China

Hongying Zhao and Luning Liu

Optimizing air-HSR intermodal service considering trade-offs in duration at airport: A game analysis in a vertically structured transport market

Yingzhi Wang, Xiushan Jiang and Jihui Ma

Assessing regional economic Performance: Fuzzy multi-criteria decision making and panel regression approach

Constantin Marius Profiroiu, Alina Georgiana Profiroiu, Daniela-Luminția Constantin, Ionuț Nica, Camelia Delcea and Maria Roxana Brişcariu

The impact of tap water on household vulnerability to poverty: Evidence from rural China

Mingcong Chen, Qiqi Sun and Lizhi Tang

Global inefficiencies in labour, patents, energy, capital, environment, and economics: The role of corruption, democracy, and income distribution

Hirofumi Fukuyama, Yong Tan and Peter Wanke

What is the difference between specialisation and diversity in hospitals? Investigating their relationship with efficiency

Ginevra Giuliani and Simone Gitto

Socio-political determinants of circular economy behavior: A cross-sectional analysis across Italy

Luigi Aldieri, Cristian Barra, Pasquale Marcello Falcone and Concetto Paolo Vinci

Exploring the political-institutional perspective of sustainable consumer behavior within the circular economy: a structural equation modeling approach from nudge theory

Gennaro Maione, Stefania Supino, Mara Grimaldi and Orlando Troisi

Volume 99, issue C, 2025

Divergent growth paths: Conflict, state capacity, and convergence clubs in Sub-Saharan Africa

Juan J. Villar-Roldan, Aida Galiano and Juan Manuel Martín-Álvarez

Evaluation and improvement of agricultural green total factor energy efficiency: The perspective of the closest target

Jiarong Zhang, Meijuan Li and Zijie Shen

Quantifying political effects in the spatial allocation of public services

Anders Fredriksson and Maria Sylvia Macchione Saes

Multidimensional poverty in Benin

Esmeralda Arranhado, Lágida Barbosa and João Bastos

Pareto improvement in a dual-channel closed-loop supply chain system by integrating product sustainability and consumer focus

Manojit Das, Mostafijur Rahaman, Shariful Alam, Dipak Kumar Jana, Anas A. Salameh, Saleh Al Sulaie, Hengbin Yin and Ali Ahmadian

The impact of highway improvements on new firm location in underdeveloped regions: Evidence from China

Mengyi Cui, Shaoxin Shen and Fengtian Zheng

The new mode for promoting the redevelopment of urban villages in China: A research on the behavior of stakeholders

Qilong Wang, Wei Sun and Qi Yin

Scale measurement and economic effect evaluation of smart agriculture in China

Shaohua Zhang, Rentao Chen, Jian Wu and Ning Zhu

The role of the institutional supply chain in the transition from the linear to the circular paradigm: The Italian case

Massimiliano Agovino, Antonio Garofalo, Katia Marchesano, Simona Monteleone and Gaetano Musella

Index generation for good governance via multiplicative data envelopment analysis

Ayça Özekin and Fadime Aksoy

Fairness-oriented multi-objective optimization of supply chain planning under uncertainties

Zijing Yang and Songsong Liu

The Faster the Healthier: China's High-Speed Rail Expansion and Mental Health

Haoran Yang, Xin Zhang, Jingyang Liu and Jing Wen

A game theoretic framework for analyzing milk supply chain safety and quality

Emad Zamiri-Noghreh, Soroush Safarzadeh and Mohammad Ranjbar

Using an inclusive attribute value function based approach to evaluate the operation performance of high-speed railway network

Wencheng Huang, Xinxin Li, Yanhui Yin, Haoran Li and Yaocheng Yu

Comparisons of emission trading scheme implementation modes in a low-carbon supply chain

Xiaoyan Wang, Qiang Du, Jinzhao Shi, Jingtao Li and Libiao Bai

Analysis of green e-commerce supply chain considering delivery time under reward–penalty mechanism based on confidence level

Rong Gao, Kexin Hua, Xiaosheng Wang and Jie Wei

Integrating logistics planning and population sampling decisions for humanitarian needs assessment

Duygu Pamukcu, Melih Çelik and Burcu Balçık

Sustainable food waste supply chain network design problem with government environmental oversight: Globalized robust bi-level model and exact algorithm

Yuexia Wang, Hongyan Ma and Ying Liu

International differences in educational equity: An assessment using the Benefit of the Doubt model

D’Inverno, Giovanna, Cristina Polo, Gabriela Sicilia and Rosa Simancas

Risky decline? Exploring the determinants of pupil's proficiency development over time

Melisa L. Diaz Lema, Chiara Masci, Mara Soncin and Tommaso Agasisti

Predicting radiology service times for enhancing emergency department management

Davide Aloini, Elisabetta Benevento, Marco Berdini and Alessandro Stefanini

Financing road projects and its impact on off-farm work in rural China

Ligao Bao, Motoi Kusadokoro and Atsushi Chitose

Modeling cost-effectiveness analysis of treatment sequencing

Cristina del Campo, Jiaru Bai and L. Robin Keller

A general series network slacks-based measure approach for non-controllable inputs and undesirable outputs in mixed integer data envelopment analysis: An application to airport operations

Mushtaq Taleb

Tradeoffs between equity and efficiency in Coordinated Entry of homeless housing systems

Dashi I. Singham, Mary McDonald and Robert Elliot

Machine learning-based prediction of energy poverty in Bangladesh: Unveiling key socioeconomic drivers for targeted policy actions

Shamal Chandra Karmaker, Ajoy Rjbongshi, Bikash Pal, Kanchan Kumar Sen and Andrew J. Chapman

Carrot or stick? How to effectively manage non-scale farming waste in rural areas

Jie Jin, Xinyue Ren, Xunzhuo Xi and Qiuhong Zhao

Addressing community oppositions in biowaste incineration infrastructure: Key factors and strategic solutions for a sustainable circular bioeconomy

Zhongcheng Cai, Yong Liu, Ye Shen, Martin Skitmore and Shiwang Yu

Sustainability measurement, analysis and assessment for different domains and territorial levels

Cristian Barra

An SDG composite index based on Hierarchical DEA and Cooperative Game Theory

Sebastián Lozano and Alejandro Saavedra-Nieves

An integrated decision framework for landfill mining site selection using GIS, multi-criteria analysis, and optimization models

Tai-Hsi Wu, Chun-Yuan Chen, Shi-Wei Huang and Teng-To Yu

A novel integration of analytic hierarchy process and fuzzy logic to evaluate drought vulnerability in a semiarid region

Leandro Arthur Vieira Vaz, Hamilcar José Almeida Filgueira, Eliamin Eldan Queiroz Rosendo, Richarde Marques da Silva and Celso Augusto Guimarães Santos