scholarly journals Impact of Changes to Subsidised Electricity Tariffs on The Welfare Of Households

ETIKONOMI ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-184
Author(s):  
Andri Yudhi Supriadi ◽  
Mohamad Ikhsan ◽  
Benedictus Raksaka Mahi ◽  
Montty Girianna
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Economic Burden ◽  
The Other ◽  
Household Welfare ◽  
State Budget ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
Installed Capacity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Electricity Tariff ◽  
Subsidy Allocation

The subsidized electricity tariff enjoyed by households in Indonesia with an installed capacity of 450 VA and 900 VA has not changed since mid-2003. This subsidy creates an increasing economic burden on the state budget. This study examines the impact of a subsidized electricity tariff increase on subsidized household welfare and the redistribution of subsidy allocation. The analysis divided into two stages: first, estimating household electricity demand for each household group when prices fixed; and second, measuring changes in welfare, inefficiency and the redistribution of subsidy allocations. This empirical study shows that an increase in tariffs causes the welfare of subsidized households to decline. It also demonstrates inefficiency in the allocation of subsidies to the top 20% group with an installed capacity of 450 VA. Besides, subsidized households in the lowest 40% group, which initially only enjoyed 26.26% increased to 34.16% after the tariff increase. On the other hand, the top 20% group, which initially enjoyed the electricity subsidy allocation of 28.74%, decreased to 20.40% after the tariff increase.JEL Classification: D1, D3, D6, I3

Potential of Brand Personality: Attachment Styles as Moderator

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
LO Ying Tuan ◽  
Huam Hon Tat ◽  
Ahmad Sharifuddin Shamsuddin ◽  
Amran Md Rasli ◽  
Ahmad Jusoh
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Attachment Style ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Brand Personality ◽  
The Other ◽  
Anxious Attachment ◽  
Brand Attachment ◽  
Avoidant Attachment ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of consumer’s attachment styles as a moderator in the impact of brand personality on its brand attachment. This research investigated the preferred brand personality of anxious and avoidant attachment consumer, their likelihood to be attached to that brand and how they respond to any changes in brand personality. A total of 300 students were surveyed. Their attachment style and their response towards sincere and exciting personality and its brand attachment were assessed. Empirical study shows that anxious attachment style consumer preferred sincere brand personality, tends to be attached with it and did not respond to any changes in brand personality.  Avoidant attachment style people on the other hand have a stronger relationship with the exciting brand personality, are not likely to be attached to it and will respond to changes in brand personality. This study implies that marketers should get to know their targeted market’s attachment style prior coming out with the suitable brand personality.

scholarly journals An Empirical Study on the Impact of Prior Information Provision Methods on Participants’ Perceptions in Tasting Marketing

2022 ◽  
pp. 455-460
Author(s):  
Hisashi Masuda ◽  
Kengo Matsumura
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Prior Information ◽  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Information Provision ◽  
The Other ◽  
Written Information ◽  
Tourism Experience ◽  
Written Form ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Impact

AbstractTasting events are a typical example of a tourism experience that utilizes alcohol. However, it has not been sufficiently demonstrated how the prior information given to customers at tasting events affects their perception of the tasting and its marketing effects. In this study, we conducted a tasting experiment of a new Japanese sake product in California, the USA to clarify how information given to participants in advance can affect their perception of the tasting, satisfaction, and word-of-mouth intention related to the new sake product, and compared the effects of the following types of prior information: 1) no information, 2) written information, 3) video explained by a man, and 4) video explained by a woman. The results show that presenting information makes a difference in its impact as opposed to providing no information. When prior information was presented in written form, various perspectives significantly influenced the satisfaction and recommended intention more than in the cases of video. On the other hand, in the cases of video, the number of significant paths was reduced, but the influence on word-of-mouth intention was greater than in the case of written information. This study contributes to the development of a theory and empirical evidence that takes into account prior information in tasting marketing in tourism.

scholarly journals TSCDA: A novel greedy approach for community discovery in networks

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arman Ferdowsi ◽  
Alireza Khanteymoori ◽  
Maryam Dehghan Chenary
Keyword(s):  
Detection Method ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The Other ◽  
Community Discovery ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Influential Node ◽  
New Community ◽  
Greedy Methods ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
The Impact

In this paper, we introduce a new approach for detecting community structures in networks. The approach is subject to modifying one of the connectivity-based community quality functions based on considering the impact that each community's most influential node has on the other vertices. Utilizing the proposed quality measure, we devise an algorithm that aims to detect high-quality communities of a given network based on two stages: finding a promising initial solution using greedy methods and then refining the solutions in a local search manner. The performance of our algorithm has been evaluated on some standard real-world networks as well as on some artificial networks. The experimental results of the algorithm are reported and compared with several state-of-the-art algorithms. The experiments show that our approach is competitive with the other well-known techniques in the literature and even outperforms them. This approach can be used as a new community detection method in network analysis.

scholarly journals AN INVESTIGATION ON CREATIVITY PERFORMANCE IN THE CONTEXT OF LEADERSHIP STYLES AND INDIVIDUAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 2980-2999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fikret SÖZBİLİR
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Leadership Styles ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Charismatic Leadership ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Creative Performance ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Composite Reliability

Entrepreneurs are similar to leaders in terms of individual characteristics. At the same time, entrepreneurs who have high creative performance are considered as successful. This study aims to determine the impact of leadership styles (LS); democratic, managerial, and charismatic leadership on individual entrepreneurship perception’s (IEP) dimensions; planning, self-confidence, communication, motivation, and self-discipline, and impact of IEP’s dimensions on creativity performance (CP). In this empirical study, the data were collected from 286 entrepreneurs in Turkey. Data were analyzed using SmartPLS software and presented in tables. Internal consistency, composite reliability and convergent validity analyses results are sufficient. The findings showed that most of the LS’s dimensions have positive and significant impact on IEP’s dimensions. However, LS-Managerial hasn’t got a significant impact on Self-discipline dimension of IEP. LS’s all dimensions, except Charismatic, also have impact on CP. The other hand IEP’s dimensions have positive and significant impact on CP except Self-discipline.

Supporting Requirements to Code Traceability Creation by Code Comments

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (08) ◽  
pp. 1099-1118
Author(s):  
Guohua Shen ◽  
Haijuan Wang ◽  
Zhiqiu Huang ◽  
YaoShen Yu ◽  
Kai Chen
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Software Maintenance ◽  
Source Code ◽  
The Other ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Code Tracing

Requirements-to-code tracing is an important and costly task that creates trace links from requirements to source code. These trace links help engineers reduce the time and complexity of software maintenance. Code comments play an important role in software maintenance tasks. However, few studies have focused intensively on the impact of code comments on requirements-to-code trace links creation. Different types of comments have different purposes, so how different types of code comments provide different improvements for requirements-to-code trace links creation? We focus on learning whether code comments and different types of comments can improve the quality of trace links creation. This paper presents a study to evaluate the contribution of code comments and different types of code comments to the creation of trace links. More specifically, this paper first experimentally evaluates the impact of code comments on requirements-to-code trace links creation, and then divides code comments into six categories to evaluate its impact on trace links creation. The results show that the precision increases by an average of 15% (based on the same recall) after adding code comments (even for different trace links creation techniques), and the type of Purpose comments contributes more to the tracing task than the other five. This empirical study provides evidence that code comments are effective in tracing links creation, and different types of code comments contribute differently. Purpose comments can be used to improve the accuracy of requirements-to-code trace links creation.

The Impact of Free Cash Flow and Capital Structure on the Performance of the Company

2014 ◽  
Vol 623 ◽  
pp. 305-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guo Zhen Wang ◽  
Zi Yue Wang ◽  
Yuan Jie Li
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Capital Structure ◽  
Cash Flow ◽  
Free Cash Flow ◽  
The Other ◽  
Actual Situation ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

This paper studied the impact of free cash flow and capital structure on the performance of the company. It is based on the theories of the free cash flow and the capital structure, combined with the actual situation of China, using different property listed corporations’ sample, makes an empirical study on the impact of free cash flow and capital structure on the performance of the company. The result shows that on the one hand, having more free cash flow will cause negative effects on the performance of corporation, on the other hand, with the increase in liabilities financing, the listed corporation's performance fall.

Too Close for Comfort: Morasses of (Anti-) Censorship in the Era of CDNs

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-193
Author(s):  
Devashish Gosain ◽  
Mayank Mohindra ◽  
Sambuddho Chakravarty
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Distribution Networks ◽  
The Other ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Content Distribution Networks ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Web Traffic ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Country Specific

Abstract Recent research claims that “powerful” nation-states may be hegemonic over significant web traffic of “underserved” nations (e.g., Brazil and India). Such traffic may be surveilled when transiting (or ending in) these powerful nations. On the other hand, content distribution networks (CDNs) are designed to bring web content closer to end-users. Thus it is natural to ask whether CDNs have led to the localization of Internet traffic within the country’s boundary, challenging the notion of nation-state hegemony. Further, such traffic localization may inadvertently enhance a country’s ability to coerce content providers to censor (or monitor) access within its boundary. On top of that, the obvious solution, i.e., anti-censorship approaches, may sadly face a new dilemma. Traditional ones, relying on proxies, are easily discoverable. Whereas newer ones (e.g., Decoy Routing, Cache-Browser, Domain Fronting and CovertCast etc.) might not work as they require accessing web content hosted outside the censors’ boundary. We thus quantitatively analyzed the impact of web content localization on various anti-censorship systems. Such analysis requires geolocating the websites. Thus we adapted a multilateration method, Constraint Based Geolocation (CBG), with additional heuristics. We call it as Region Specific CBG (R-CBG). In more than 89% cases, R-CBG correctly classifies hosts as inside (or outside) w.r.t. a nation. Our empirical study, involving five countries, shows that the majority (61%−92%) of popular country-specific websites are hosted within a client’s own country. Further, additional heuristics classify the majority of them to be on CDNs.

Evaluation of Mobile-Based Digital Payments and Challenges

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-29
Author(s):  
Jitendra Singh ◽  
Anil Kumar ◽  
Kamlesh Kumar Raghuvanshi
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mobile Payment ◽  
It Infrastructure ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Digital Payments ◽  
The Impact

Owing to the higher usage of internet post and during COVID-19, attacks on IT infrastructure and digital payment have surged. This work undertakes the empirical study on mobile-based payment and determines the impact of post-demonetization, during COVID-19 and post COVID-19. Number of banks supporting digital payment, value in each transaction, monthly values are the factors that have been undertaken for this study. Data revealed higher usage of mobile-based payments. On the other hand, security challenges on payment have been explored by considering the world's leading regulations and standards prevailing on mobile-based payment. Major recommendations of financial regulators and CERT-IN have been included for the deeper understanding of employed security. This work will be immensely helpful to all the stakeholders aiming to understand the mobile payment trends on multi dimensions and strengthening the security in mobile-based payment to avoid any losses that may be incurred due to cyber-attacks.

Modernism, Empiricism, and Rationalism

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-47
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Squires
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern Poetry ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
Irish Poetry ◽  
Dimensional Spectrum ◽  
Culture History ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Rule Out

Modernism is usually defined historically as the composite movement at the beginning of the twentieth century which led to a radical break with what had gone before in literature and the other arts. Given the problems of the continuing use of the concept to cover subsequent writing, this essay proposes an alternative, philosophical perspective which explores the impact of rationalism (what we bring to the world) on the prevailing empiricism (what we take from the world) of modern poetry, which leads to a concern with consciousness rather than experience. This in turn involves a re-conceptualisation of the lyric or narrative I, of language itself as a phenomenon, and of other poetic themes such as nature, culture, history, and art. Against the background of the dominant empiricism of modern Irish poetry as presented in Crotty's anthology, the essay explores these ideas in terms of a small number of poets who may be considered modernist in various ways. This does not rule out modernist elements in some other poets and the initial distinction between a poetics of experience and one of consciousness is better seen as a multi-dimensional spectrum that requires further, more detailed analysis than is possible here.

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