Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

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Volume 84, issue C, 2022

Is sunshine regulation the new prescription to brighten up public hospitals in Portugal?

Miguel Alves Pereira and Rc Marques

Health-care demand and supply at municipal level: A spatial disaggregation approach

Francesco Vidoli and Monica Auteri

Does high-speed rail improve urban carbon emission efficiency in China?

Xiang Li and Zhonghua Cheng

A study on the efficiency of pediatric healthcare services and its influencing factors in China ——estimation of a three-stage DEA model based on provincial-level data

Hongda Liu, Wangqiang Wu and Pinbo Yao

Application of a purchasing portfolio model to define medicine purchasing strategies: An empirical study

Amílcar Arantes, Andreia Frias Alhais and Luis Miguel D.F. Ferreira

Multi-criteria ordered clustering of countries in the Global Health Security Index

Javier Pereira, Pedro Contreras, Danielle C. Morais and Pilar Arroyo-López

A multi-period fuzzy optimization strategy for managing a centralized blood supply chain

M. Celeste Kees, J. Alberto Bandoni and M. Susana Moreno

COVID-19 induced lockdown effect on wheat supply chain and prices in India – Insights from state interventions led resilience

AG Adeeth Cariappa, Kamlesh Kumar Acharya, Chaitanya Ashok Adhav, Sendhil R, P. Ramasundaram, Anuj Kumar, Satyavir Singh and Gyanendra Pratap Singh

Costs and trade-offs associated with renewable energy policies for Small Island Developing States: Case study for Jamaica

Travis Atkinson, Paul V. Preckel and Douglas Gotham

Well-being analysis of Italian provinces with spatial principal components

Massimiliano Giacalone, Raffaele Mattera and Eugenia Nissi

Does the opening of high-speed railway improve air quality? Evidence from China

Xinhua Zhu, Chun Dai and Yigang Wei

The conceptualization of environmental, social and governance risks in portfolio studies A systematic literature review

Carmen Gallucci, Rosalia Santulli and Valentina Lagasio

Eco-efficiency of Chinese transportation industry: A DEA approach with non-discretionary input

Yao-yao Song, Jing-jing Li, Jin-li Wang, Guo-liang Yang and Zhenling Chen

Optimal monitoring policies for chronic diseases under healthcare warranty

Heng Zhao, Zixian Liu, Mei Li and Lijun Liang

Demand prediction of emergency materials using case-based reasoning extended by the Dempster-Shafer theory

Liguo Fei and Yanqing Wang

Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on the efficiency of Portuguese state-owned enterprise hospitals

Carla Henriques and M.C. Gouveia

How efficient is the Italian health system? Evidence on the role of political-institutional dynamics

Raffaele Boffardi

Inferring causal networks of health care resilience and safety performance indicators: A two-stage fuzzy cognitive map approach

Mansour Zarrin

Sampling plan for socioeconomic development indicators in Brazil: practical implications when considering precision and cost

Anderson Ribeiro Santiago and Hilton Thadeu Zarate do Couto

Incorporating the status quo effect into the decision making process: The case of municipal companies merger

Elżbieta Kubińska, Magdalena Adamczyk-Kowalczuk, Mariusz Andrzejewski and Stelios Rozakis

Optimization of volunteer task assignments to improve volunteer retention and nonprofit organizational performance

Milan Preet Kaur, Safron Smith, Jennifer A. Pazour and Ana Duque Schumacher

Aggregating Farrell efficiencies without value data: The case of hospitals

Rolf Färe and Giannis Karagiannis

Blood supply interventions during disasters: Efficiency measures and strategies to mitigate volatility

Geoffrey A. Chua and Juan Ramon L. Senga

A multi-period model for reorganising urban household waste recycling networks

Zati Aqmar Zaharudin, Andrew Brint and Andrea Genovese

Modeling mobility, risk, and pandemic severity during the first year of COVID

Alexander Gilgur and Jose Emmanuel Ramirez-Marquez

Trends and gaps in the literature of road network repair and restoration in the context of disaster response operations

Luana Souza Almeida, Floris Goerlandt and Ronald Pelot

Scenario-based redesigning of a relief supply-chain network by considering humanitarian constraints, triage, and volunteers’ help

Zeinab Vosooghi, S.M.J. Mirzapour Al-e-hashem and Behshad Lahijanian

Dynamic effects of urbanization, governance, and worker's remittance on multidimensional food security: An application of a broad-spectrum approach

Muhammad Umar Farrukh, Muhammad Khalid Bashir, Maria Fay Rola-Rubzen and Ashfaq Ahmad

Funding allocations for disaster preparation considering catastrophe insurance

Tongxin Liu, Jianfang Shao and Xihui Wang

A sustainable competitive supply chain network design for a green product under uncertainty: A case study of Iranian leather industry

Sajjad Fakheri, Zeynab Bahrami-Bidoni, Ahmad Makui, Mir Saman Pishvaee and Ernesto DR. Santibanez Gonzalez

Reducing racial segregation of public school districts

Ran Wei, Xin Feng, Sergio Rey and Elijah Knaap

Locating emergency medical services to reduce urban-rural inequalities

Weicong Luo, Jing Yao, Richard Mitchell, Xiaoxiang Zhang and Wenqiang Li

Analysis of the innovation capacity of Mexican regions with the multiple criteria hierarchy process

Pavel Anselmo Alvarez, Cuitláhuac Valdez and Bapi Dutta

Centralised resource allocation using Lexicographic Goal Programming. Application to the Spanish public university system

Sebastián Lozano and Ignacio Contreras

Location-allocation-routing for emergency shelters based on geographical information system (ArcGIS) by NSGA-II (case study: Earthquake occurrence in Tehran (District-1))

Sepide Aghaie and Behrooz Karimi

On the choice of public or private management models in the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS)

Kaio Guilherme Cuoghi, Alexandre Bevilacqua Leoneti and João Luiz Passador

Towards an improved understanding of the antecedents of digital health service loyalty during a pandemic: An fsQCA approach

Md Abul Kalam Azad, Nazmus Sakib Rumman, Regina Connolly, Peter Wanke and Jinnatul Raihan Mumu

Exploring the efficiency of hospital and pharmacy utilizations in Taiwan: An application of dynamic network data envelopment analysis

Kuan-Chen Chen, Sun-Yuan Lin and Ming-Miin Yu

An integrated resilience engineering-lean management approach to performance assessment and improvement of clinical departments

Mina Samieinasab, Mahdi Hamid and Masoud Rabbani

Efficiency evaluation of Asia's cultural tourism using a dynamic DEA approach

Yueh-Cheng Wu and Sheng-Wei Lin

A novel inverse DEA-R model with application in hospital efficiency

Mojtaba Ghiyasi, Mehdi Soltanifar and Hamid Sharafi

Measurement and evaluation of multi-function parallel network hierarchical DEA systems

Marios Dominikos Kremantzis, Patrick Beullens, Leonidas Sotirios Kyrgiakos and Jonathan Klein

An analysis of key indicators for enhancing school performance: Evidences from India

Abhishek Bhatnagar, Animesh Jaiswal, Ansh Jain and Nomesh B. Bolia

Planning feasible and efficient operational scenarios for a university hospital through multimethodology

Maria Stella de Castro Lobo, Marcos Pereira Estellita Lins, Henrique de Castro Rodrigues and Gabriel Martins Soares

Assessing performance in health care: A mathematical programming approach for the re-design of primary health care networks

María Eugenia Elorza, Nebel Silvana Moscoso and Anibal Manuel Blanco

Volume 83, issue C, 2022

The effect of artificial intelligence on carbon intensity: Evidence from China's industrial sector

Jun Liu, Liang Liu, Yu Qian and Shunfeng Song

Agglomeration economy and the growth of green total-factor productivity in Chinese Industry

Zhonghua Cheng and Wei Jin

Adoption of mobile banking in rural China: Impact of information dissemination channel

Qianyu Zhu, Zhongyao Lyu, Yan Long and Cheryl J. Wachenheim

Institutional quality and its spatial spillover effects on energy efficiency

Huaping Sun, Bless Kofi Edziah, Chuanwang Sun and Anthony Kwaku Kporsu

Public funds in high-tech industries: A blessing or a curse

Bofei Yang and Shengjun Zhu

Fiscal decentralization, intergovernmental transfer reform and conflict in Colombian municipalities

Raju Mainali, Mehmet Tosun and Jingjing Yang

The role of state capacity and socio-economic determinants on health quality and its access in Pakistan (1990–2019)

Hafiz Syed Mohsin Abbas, Xiaodong Xu and Chunxia Sun

How does heterogeneous spillover of knowledge affect economic geography? ——An extended local spillover model

Xilei Xu, Xuebing Dong, Ruonan Chi and Jixia Li

Subnational sustainable development: The role of vertical intergovernmental transfers in reaching multidimensional goals

Omar A. Guerrero, Gonzalo Castañeda, Georgina Trujillo, Lucy Hackett and Florian Chávez-Juárez

The spatial impacts of air pollution and socio-economic status on public health: Empirical evidence from China

Zhenhua Zhang, Guoxing Zhang and Bin Su

Measuring and evaluating socio-economic inequality in small areas: An application to the urban units of the Municipality of Genoa

Leonardo Salvatore Alaimo, Enrico Ivaldi, Stefano Landi and Filomena Maggino

A private sustainable partner selection model for green public-private partnerships and regional economic development

Madjid Tavana, Arash Khalili Nasr, Hassan Mina and Jerzy Michnik

Does high-speed rail reduce environmental pollution? Establishment-level evidence from China

Yanyan Gao, Jianghuai Zheng and Xin Wang

Can regional development plans promote economic growth? City-level evidence from China

Zhenbing Yang, Shuai Shao, Lili Xu and Lili Yang

Study on spatial correlation of air pollution and control effect of development plan for the city cluster in the Yangtze River Delta

Xianhua Wu, Zhiqing Tian, Yun Kuai, Shunfeng Song and Stephen M. Marson

COVID-19 lockdowns and air quality: Evidence from grey spatiotemporal forecasts

Mingyun Gao, Honglin Yang, Qinzi Xiao and Mark Goh

Do fintech applications promote regional innovation efficiency? Empirical evidence from China

Lihong Yang and Shixun Wang

Does urbanization matter? Diverging attitudes toward migrants and Europe's decision-making

Francesco Palermo, Bruno S. Sergi and Emiliano Sironi

Participatory modelling and systems intelligence: A systems-based and transdisciplinary partnership

Daniel C. Kenny, Elena Bakhanova, Raimo P. Hämäläinen and Alexey Voinov

Charity auctions as assets: Theory and simulations of fundraising risk management in mean-variance space

Joshua Foster and M. Ryan Haley

A data envelopment analysis model integrated with portfolio theory for energy mix adjustment: Evidence in the power industry

Ximei Zeng, Zhongbao Zhou, Yeming Gong and Wenbin Liu

A bilevel Nash-in-Nash model for hospital mergers: A key to affordable care

Jorge A. Acuna, Jose L. Zayas-Castro and Felipe Feijoo

The effect of collectivism-based organisational culture on employee commitment in public organisations

Rafael Triguero-Sánchez, Jesús Peña-Vinces and João J. Matos Ferreira

Evaluating the spatial accessibility of medical resources taking into account the residents' choice behavior of outpatient and inpatient medical treatment

Zhongyu Wei, Jianjun Bai and Ruitao Feng

Evaluation of the efficiency of the local tax administration in Taiwan: Application of a dynamic network data envelopment analysis

Shwu-Huei Huang, Ming-Miin Yu and Ya-Ling Huang

Food waste during Covid- 19 lockdown period and consumer behaviour – The case of Greece

Prokopis K. Theodoridis and Theofanis V. Zacharatos

Dealing with weighting scheme in composite indicators: An unsupervised distance-machine learning proposal for quantitative data

Eduardo Jiménez-Fernández, Angeles Sánchez and Mario Ortega-Pérez

Optimal student/school/class/teacher/classroom matching to support efficient public school system resource allocation

Sérgio F. Mayerle, Hidelbrando F. Rodrigues, João Neiva de Figueiredo and Daiane M. De Genaro Chiroli

A robust survival model for emergency medical services in Delhi, India

Shayesta Wajid and N. Nezamuddin

Regionalization of primary health care units with multi-institutional collaboration

Rodolfo Mendoza-Gómez and Roger Z. Ríos-Mercado

A hybrid fuzzy multi-objective model for carpet production planning with reverse logistics under uncertainty

M. Ghanbarzadeh-Shams, R. Ghasemy Yaghin and A.H. Sadeghi

A novel spherical fuzzy AHP-VIKOR methodology to determine serving petrol station selection during COVID-19 lockdown: A pilot study for İstanbul

Ertugrul Ayyildiz and Alev Taskin

Dynamic linear models for policy monitoring. The case of maternal and neonatal mortality in Ghana

Atinuke Adebanji, David Rios Insua and Fabrizio Ruggeri

Shedding Light on the energy-related social equity of nations toward a just transition

Tomoaki Nakaishi, Andrew Chapman and Shigemi Kagawa

GMM clustering for in-depth food accessibility pattern exploration and prediction model of food demand behavior

Rahul Srinivas Sucharitha and Seokcheon Lee

Optimal crop combination under soaring oil and energy prices in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Raga M. Elzaki, Mutasim.M.M. Elrasheed and Nagat A. Elmulthum