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The Valuation of the IJmeer Nature Reserve using Conjoint Analysis

Baarsma, Barbara E. - EconWPA - 2004

This paper describes an application of conjoint analysis. The subject of the valuation study is the IJmeer nature reserve, which will be partly destroyed when the new residential area IJburg is built. This paper addresses the following question: ‘What is the extent of the loss of green and...

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A Review of the Valuation of Environmental Costs and Benefits in World Bank Projects

Silva, Patricia; Pagiola, Stefano - EconWPA - 2005

The World Bank’s Operational Policy on Economic Evaluation of Investment Operations requires that project evaluations include all the costs and benefits generated by the project, including environmental costs and benefits. Theis review examines the use of environmental valuation in 101...

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Emissions Trading and Profitability: The Swedish Pulp and Paper Industry

Brannlund, Runar; Chung, Yangho; Fare, Rolf; Grosskopf, … - EconWPA - 1995

The purpose of this paper is to develop models with and without emissions trading and to compare industry profits under the two regimes. The model in which emissions trading is permitted is a nonparametric industry frontier model in the spirit of Fare, Grosskopf and Li (1992). It is relative to...

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Inconstitucionalidad por inconmesurabilidad de modelos económicos: El caso de las tasas retributivas por contaminación

Márquez-Escobar, Pablo - EconWPA - 2004

The author studies the incommensurability of economic models as a type, little explored of unconstitutionality, called the unconstitutionality for incommensurability of economic models. The author statutes that many of Colombian rules relapse in this type of methodological error and due to the...

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Stable pricing in multiproduct natural monopoly (in French)

Iehlé, Vincent - EconWPA - 2004

We provide some existence results of stable pricings for natural monopoly as defined in the theory of contestable markets. The main addings are based on the assumption of separated markets and the possibilities of entries. We borrow tools from cooperative game theory. Following the work of...

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Audit externe sur la dette globale du Canton du Valais / External audit of the overall debt of the Swiss canton of Valais

Soguel, Nils; Iogna-Prat, Simon - EconWPA - 2005

of the sustainability of the Valais’ public debt in order to determine if its level is excessive or not. …

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Trade Liberalization and Industrial Pollution in Mexico: Lessons for the FTAA"

Gallagher, Kevin - EconWPA - 2001

As the barriers to hemispheric trade and integration are lowered, it will be asked whether we will we hear the "giant sucking sound" of poorer nations luring U.S. and Canadian firms south to take advantage of low wages and lax environmental regulations? Or, will Latin American nations passively...

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Finding a path in the sustainability jungle. A framework for corporate action.

Seelos, Christian - EconWPA - 2005

Collective concerns about sustainable development and proposals about how to achieve sustainability have produced a … sustainability; and yet the lack of clear definitions has left a vacuum of corporate guidance. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR …) has become a synonym for corporate action towards sustainability, but companies continue to struggle to understand how to …

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ECONOMIC / ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEM INTERACTION

Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 2003

of sustainability while establishing a consistent system of units for both the solar flux and economic transformation … processes. Conditions for a virtuous cycle dynamic in relation to sustainability is expressed, adhering to non …

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Modelo para valorar la atribución de Sustentabilidad

Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 2004

The identification is made of those conditions by which it is possible to generate synergy or mutually enforcing relations between economic development and environment conservation with the perspective of a systems entropy flow limits. Monetary and fiscal policies are the framework of structural...

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