Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

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Volume 89, issue C, 2023

A multi reference point based index to assess and monitor European water policies from a sustainability approach

Mónica de Castro-Pardo, José Manuel Cabello, José María Martín and Francisco Ruiz

A triage sepsis alert indicator set based on logit analysis

Laura Antonucci, Corrado Crocetta, d’Ovidio, Francesco Domenico, Najada Firza and Pietro Pozzessere

Towards data-driven project design: Providing optimal treatment rules for development projects

Alessandra Garbero, Grayson Sakos and Giovanni Cerulli

The measurement of profit, profitability, cost and revenue efficiency through data envelopment analysis: A comparison of models using BenchmarkingEconomicEfficiency.jl

Javier Barbero and José Zofío

Constructing the performance index of Malaysia’s district health centers using effectiveness-based hierarchical data envelopment analysis

Mohd Ridzwan Shahari, Kok Fong See, Noor Syahireen Mohammed and Ming-Miin Yu

Evaluating the household-level climate-electricity nexus across three cities through statistical learning techniques

Simon Pezalla and Renee Obringer

Humanitarian logistics optimization models: An investigation of decision-maker involvement and directions to promote implementation

Oscar Rodríguez-Espíndola, Hossein Ahmadi, Diego Gastélum-Chavira, Omar Ahumada-Valenzuela, Soumyadeb Chowdhury, Prasanta Kumar Dey and Pavel Albores

School or parking lot? Selecting locations for points of distribution in urban disasters

Hannah Bakker, Florian Diehlmann, Marcus Wiens, Stefan Nickel and Frank Schultmann

Optimal multi-period crop procurement and distribution policy with minimum support prices

Prashant Chintapalli

The augmented and integrative model of economic growth: Theoretical and empirical evidence from USA

Victor Moutinho, Helena M. Santos de Oliveira, Henrique Viana Espinosa de Oliveira and Félix Puime Guillén

Does taking additional Maths classes in high school affect academic outcomes?

Andrea Priulla, Martina Vittorietti and Massimo Attanasio

A review on hypercube queuing model's extensions for practical applications

Ana P. Iannoni and Reinaldo Morabito

A new index of transparency: Evidence for the Italian municipalities

Leonardo Salvatore Alaimo, Emma Galli, Ilde Rizzo and Carla Scaglioni

Sustainability performance assessment of Tunisian public transport companies: AHP and ANP approaches

Sarra Daimi and Sonia Rebai

Cultural diversity and its impact on governance

Tomáš Evan and Vladimír Holý

Optimization models for nopal crop planning with land usage expansion and government subsidy

Francisco López Ramos, Rafael Batres, Cynthia Griselle De-la-Cruz-Márquez and Melina López Anzures

A general approach for computing a consensus in group decision making that integrates multiple ethical principles

Francisco Salas-Molina, Filippo Bistaffa and Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar

Appraisal of regional hospital efficiency and healthcare quality in China: Impacts of subsidies and marketization

Cai Wen Zhang and Yuanhui Yang

Rural revitalization of China: A new framework, measurement and forecast

Yuqing Geng, Liwen Liu and Lingyan Chen

A novel methodology for public management of annual greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union

E. Algaba, G. Márquez, J. Martínez-Lozano and J. Sánchez-Soriano

Industrial performance of the top R&D enterprises in world-leading economies: A metafrontier approach

Aleksander Aristovnik, Guo-liang Yang, Yao-yao Song and Dejan Ravšelj

Using an SBM-NDEA model to assess the desirable and undesirable outputs of sustainable supply chain: A case study in wheat industry

Farhad Hosseinzadeh Lotfi, Reza Farzipoor Saen, Zohreh Moghaddas and Mohsen Vaez-Ghasemi

Incentives for local government expenditures on people’s livelihood: the role of high-speed rail

Xia Meng, Tao Ding and Haisen Wang

Digitalization in Europe: A potential driver of energy efficiency for the twin transition policy strategy

Ilaria Benedetti, Giulio Guarini and Tiziana Laureti

Coping with public-private partnership issues: A path forward to sustainable agriculture

Vernika Agarwal, Snigdha Malhotra, Vishal Dagar and Pavithra M. R

Benchmarking nursing homes using the Order Rated Effectiveness model

Ronald Klimberg and Samuel Ratick

Organised crime and educational outcomes in Southern Italy: An empirical investigation

Marina Cavalieri, Massimo Finocchiaro Castro and Calogero Guccio

Combination of top-down and bottom-up DEA models using PCA: A two-stage network DEA with shared input and undesirable output for evaluation of the road transport sector

Hashem Omrani, Zijiang Yang, Arash Karbasian and Tamara Teplova

Efficiency analysis of engineering colleges in India: Decomposition into parallel sub-processes systems

Neelesh Kumar Mishra, Abhishek Chakraborty, Sanjeet Singh and Prabhat Ranjan

Blessing or curse: How does sustainable development policy affect total factor productivity of energy-intensive enterprises?

Chien-Chiang Lee, Qiming Zhong, Huwei Wen and Qinghua Song

Analyzing sustainable competitiveness of inter-city coach from the impact of high-speed railway opening in Jiangsu Province, China

Xize Liu, Wendong Chen, Xuewu Chen, Jingxu Chen and Long Cheng

A probabilistic hesitant fuzzy MCDM approach to evaluate India’s intervention strategies against the COVID-19 pandemic

Jeonghwan Jeon, Krishnan Suvitha, Noreen Izza Arshad, Samayan Kalaiselvan, Samayan Narayanamoorthy, Massimiliano Ferrara and Ali Ahmadian

Quantifying transport safety success at the regional level: A guide to policy and practice on investment for G20

Jingshun Zhang, Jiayi Hu, Xitong Wang, Lien Fang, Yi Jin, Muyang Li, Yangqing Liu, Anna Wu, Libin Wang, Ruining Liu, Yi Zhang and Faan Chen

Volume 88, issue C, 2023

Is human and financial investment in Chinese universities effective?

Yuan Cui, Xian-tong Ren, Xi-jie He and Guo-liang Yang

A multiple criteria methodology for priority based portfolio selection

M. Barbati, J.R. Figueira, S. Greco, A. Ishizaka and S. Panaro

An analysis of natural disasters’ effects – A global comparative study of ‘Blessing in Disguise’

Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp and Alexandru Banica

Easy come, easy go: Short-term land-use dynamics vis à vis regional economic downturns

Alessia D'Agata, Leonardo Salvatore Alaimo, Pavel Cudlín and Luca Salvati

Does the opening of high-speed rail enhance urban entrepreneurial activity? Evidence from China

Xiujuan Lan, Zheneng Hu and Chuanhao Wen

Humanitarian demining for the clearance of landmine-affected areas

Carolay Camacho-Sanchez, Ruben Yie-Pinedo and Gina Galindo

Determining optimal fuel delivery strategies under uncertainty

Dominiqueca R. Edwards, Faith O. Idoko, Chrysafis Vogiatzis, Lauren B. Davis and Pitu Mirchandani

Evaluation of the treatment options for COVID-19 patients using generalized hesitant fuzzy- multi criteria decision making techniques

Sandip Nandi, Giuseppe Granata, Subrata Jana, Neha Ghorui, Sankar Prasad Mondal and Moumita Bhaumik

A multi-stage stochastic programming approach for pre-positioning of relief supplies considering returns

Shaolong Hu, Qingmi Hu, Sha Tao and Zhijie Sasha Dong

Mafia risk perception: Evaluating the effect of organized crime on firm technical efficiency and investment proclivity

Antonio Fabio Forgione and Carlo Migliardo

A multiproduct gasoline supply chain with product standardization and postponement strategy

Rafael Carmona-Benítez and Héctor Cruz

Economic cohesion and development of the European Union's regions and member states - A methodological proposal to measure and identify the degree of regional economic cohesion

Anna Garashchuk, Fernando Isla Castillo and Pablo Podadera Rivera

Evaluation of a Flemish Active Labour Market Policy in the framework of the European Social Fund. Results and challenges

Giulia Canzian, Elena Meroni and Giulia Santangelo

A partial order toolbox for building synthetic indicators of sustainability with ordinal data

Marco Fattore and Leonardo Salvatore Alaimo

Fear itself. Is fear a determinant of the efficacy oflockdowns?

Vincenzo Alfano and Salvatore Ercolano

Using social media for efficient brand marketing: An evaluation of Chinese Universities using Bilibili

Lei Li, Jiayang Zhang and Xun An

Towards a responsive-sustainable-resilient tea supply chain network design under uncertainty using big data

Marjan Olfati and Mohammad Mahdi Paydar

Does digital service trade boost technological innovation?: International evidence

Huwei Wen, Wenjing Chen and Fengxiu Zhou

Efficiency evaluation for higher education institutions in China considering unbalanced regional development: A meta-frontier Super-SBM model

Yu Sun, Feng Yang, Dawei Wang and Sheng Ang

Does foreign aid procurement in resource-rich countries depend on these countries’ financial development and institutional quality? Evidence from PVECM and quantile-on-quantile regression

Rudra P. Pradhan, Sara E. Bennett, Mahendhiran S. Nair and Mak Arvin

The impact of the European social fund on youth education and employment

Stefano Fusaro and Rosario Scandurra

Severity of material deprivation in Spanish regions and the role of the European Structural Funds

Chiara Mussida, Maria Laura Parisi and Nicola Pontarollo

Operational planning of vehicles for rescue and relief operations considering the unavailability of the relocated vehicles

Leilanaz Akbari, Ahmad Kazemi and Majid Salari

The risk impacts of global natural and technological disasters

Guoqiang Shen, Long Zhou, Xianwu Xue and Yu Zhou

A composite indicator of social inclusion for EU based on the inverted BoD model

Giannis Karagiannis and Panagiotis Ravanos

Breaking through the glass ceiling. Simulating policies to close the gender gap in the Italian academia

Marianna Filandri, Silvia Pasqua and Eleonora Priori

An integrative strategy for Venezuela's electricity sector (VES), from an analysis of stakeholder perspectives

J.E. León-Vielma, Francisco Ramos-Real, J.F. Hernández Hernández and María Gracia Rodríguez-Brito

Forecasting small area populations with long short-term memory networks

Irina Grossman, Tom Wilson and Jeromey Temple

Proposal for calculating regulatory capital requirements for reverse mortgages

Iván de la Fuente, Eliseo Navarro and Gregorio Serna

Leveraging multi-tier healthcare facility network simulations for capacity planning in a pandemic

Mohd Shoaib, Navonil Mustafee, Karan Madan and Varun Ramamohan

COVID-19 crisis and the efficiency of Indian banks: Have they weathered the storm?

Rachita Gulati, Vincent Charles, M. Kabir Hassan and Sunil Kumar

Improved strategy management for WDNs: Integrated prioritization SWOT QSPM (IPSQ) method – Application to passive defense

Kamran Mohammadi

Feasibility on the integration of passenger and freight transportation in rural areas: A service mode and an optimization model

Tiannuo Yang, Zhongzhu Chu and Bailin Wang

Planning for equal transit-based accessibility of healthcare facilities: A case study of Shenzhen, China

Zhuolin Tao and Min Zhao

A location-routing model for free-floating shared bike collection considering manual gathering and truck transportation

Xiaozhou He and Qingyi Wang

A journey of social sustainability in organization during MDG & SDG period: A bibliometric analysis

Alka Kumari and Manvendra Pratap Singh

Analysis of the impact of university policies on society's environmental perception

Rosa Puertas, José M. Guaita-Martinez and Luisa Marti

A dual-clustering algorithm for a robust medical grid partition problem considering patient referral

Yuchen Hao, Chuang Liu, Lugang Zhao and Weibo Liu

The effects of sustainability orientation on research and teaching efficiency in German universities

Torben Schubert, Henning Kroll and Cecilia Garcia Chavez