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Managing Pesticide Risks for Non-Target Ecosystems with Pesticide Risk Indicators: a Multicriteria Approach

Travisi, Chiara Maria; Nijkamp, Peter; Vighi, Marco; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

In the search for effective pesticide risk management tools, the design of pesticide risk indicators is nowadays receiving increasing attention as a complement to more established regulatory strategies. In the present paper, we apply some recently developed pesticide risk indices and test their...

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Efficiency Effects of Privatising Refuse Collection: Be careful and Alternatives present

Dijkgraaf, E.; Gradus, R. - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

For refuse collection, we estimate the cost effects of different institutional modes using panel data for almost all Dutch municipalities between 1998 and 2010. The modes we consider are private contracts, intermunicipal cooperation, public provision and own collection. For private companies,...

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Contracting out, an Empirical Study on Motives

Wassenaar, Mattheus; Groot, Tom; Gradus, Raymond - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

Municipalities may have various motives for decisions on the mode of their task execution. Empirical studies – based on both public choice and transaction costs theory - have not yet provided a fully comprehensive explanation for municipal contracting out decisions. Therefore, we held...

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The Regional Self-Organizing Potential in Sustainable Agriculture: An Analysis of Co-operative Agreements on Nitrate Pollution by means of Rough Set Methods

Nijkamp, Peter; Oltmer, Katrin - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

This study addresses the achievements of cooperative agreements in sustainable agriculture policy. After an economic analysis of multi-actor choice situations, it focuses the attention on the self-organizing potential of regional market parties in order to comply with environmental policy...

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Monetary Valuation of Aircraft Noise

Dekkers, Jasper; Straaten, Willemijn van der - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

In densely-populated countries and in particular in large metropolitan areas, the presence of so much human activity causes all sorts of negative externalities, for example traffic noise disturbance. These externalities call for corrective measures by the government. Economists have developed a...

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An Economic Analysis of Mixing Wastes

Aalbers, Rob F.T.; Vollebergh, Herman R.J. - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

Using a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous waste, this paper studies optimal waste policy when households have to exert separation effort to produce near-homogeneous waste streams suitable for recycling. Our model explicitly allows for changes in the composition (quality) of waste...

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Privatization, Political Risk and Stock Market Development in Emerging Economies

Perotti, Enrico C.; Oijen, Pieter van - Tinbergen Institute - 1999

This paper investigates whether privatization in emerging economies has a significant indirect effect on local stock … market development through the resolution of political risk. We argue that a sustained privatization program represents a … regulatory and private property rights. We present evidence suggesting that progress in privatization is indeed correlated with …

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Advertising and Consumer Search in a Duopoly Model

Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Non, Mariëlle C. - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

We consider a duopoly in a homogenous goods market where part of the consumers are ex ante uninformed about prices. Information can come through two different channels: advertising and sequential consumer search. We arrive at the following results. First, there is no monotone relationship...

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Going where the Ad leads you: On High Advertised Prices and Search where to buy

Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Non, Marielle C. - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

The search literature assumes that consumers know which firms sell products they are looking for, but are unaware of the particular variety and the prices at which each firm sells. In this paper, we consider the situation where consumers are uncertain whether a firm carries the product at all by...

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Nonparametric Estimation of the Costs of Non-Sequential Search

Moraga-González, José Luis; Sándor, Zsolt; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

We study a consumer non-sequential search oligopoly model with search cost heterogeneity. We first prove that an equilibrium in mixed strategies always exists. We then examine the nonparametric identification and estimation of the costs of search. We find that the sequence of points on the...

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