Integrated Assessment Models of Global Change (IAM) are computer models which integrate sets of equations describing … general circulation models (GCM), atmospheric chemical models and ecological models. However, economic issues are central to … the assessment, through the coupling of these natural science models with macroeconomic models.The goal of IAM is to …

Import price elasticity tends to be under-estimated due to the omission of quality effects. This dissertation aims to … fill this gap by analyzing 1) how quality effects affect the estimation of import price elasticity, 2) the impact of … quality innovation in the various goods sectors of an economy and 3) the limitations pertaining to the estimation of the true …

Traditional trade models ignoring the dimension of product quality generally lead to excessively low trade price … obtained by controlling product quality in trade equations. To do so, we have estimated trade equations including a product … quality proxy derived from survey data. Our estimation results, based on panel data for the four main EU member States …

The aim of this paper is to propose a new database allowing a comparative evaluation of the relative performance of … comparable indicators. We provide a dataset of indicators of quality of student achievement (IQSA) for 103 countries/areas in …

a given level of quality. Results show that the average inefficiencyper lift ticket price is less than 1.5 euros for …

such as quality and network innovation. It is in this context that incentive regulation tools are discussed and assessed in …

In many cases consumers cannot observe firms' investment in quality or safety, but have only beliefs on the average … quality of the industry. In addition, the outcome of the collective investment game of the firms may be stochastic since firms … consumers' subjective perceptions of the industry level of quality matters, the regulator may make information available to …

results show that public subsidies enable the e-learning organization to provide quality-based and pricing strategies that … impact on the global level of quality which is provided by both providers. Nevertheless, our welfare analysis underlines …