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Changing with the Tide: Semi-Parametric Estimation of Preference Dynamics
Dekker, Thijs; Koster, Paul; Brouwer, Roy - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in <I>Land Economics</I> (2014). Volume 90(4), pages 717-745.<P> This paper contrasts the discovered preference hypothesis against the theory of coherent arbitrariness in a split-sample stated choice experiment on flood risk exposure in the Netherlands. A...</p></i>
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Statistical Modelling of Extreme Rainfall in Taiwan
Chu, Lan-Fen; McAleer, Michael; Chang, Ching-Chung - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
In this paper, the annual maximum daily rainfall data from 1961 to 2010 are modelled for 18 stations in Taiwan. We fit the rainfall data with stationary and non-stationary generalized extreme value distributions (GEV), and estimate their future behaviour based on the best fitting model. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255813
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Scale, Scope and Cognition: Context Analysis of Multiple Stated Choice Experiments on the Values of Life and Limb
Bockarjova, Marija; Rietveld, Piet; Verhoef, Erik T. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
In this paper we use data from an SP study on flood safety in the Netherlands, and elicit individual preferences for reduction of risk to life and limb. We perform context analysis to test the robustness of fatality risk valuation throughout choice experiments. The main interest of this paper is...
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Composite Valuation of Immaterial Damage in Flooding: Value of Statistical Life, Value of Statistical Evacuation and Value of Statistical Injury
Bockarjova, Marija; Rietveld, Piet; Verhoef, Erik T. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
This paper enriches existing valuation literature in a number of ways by presenting context-specific estimates of immaterial damage. First, it offers an estimation of value of statistical life (VOSL) in the context of a natural hazard (flooding). Next, as one of the contributions, alongside with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256324
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Statistical Modelling of Recent Changes in Extreme Rainfall in Taiwan
Chu, Lan-Fen; McAleer, Michael; Wang, Szu-Hua - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
This paper has two primary purposes. First, we fit the annual maximum daily rainfall data for 6 rainfall stations, both with stationary and non-stationary generalized extreme value (GEV) distributions for the periods 1911-2010 and 1960-2010 in Taiwan, and detect the changes between the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256727
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Non-Marginal Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Tyranny of Discounting
Vermeylen, Koen - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
This paper uses the Kaldor-Hicks compensation principle to compute the present value (PV) of a non-marginal future event. Three theoretical results stand out: First, decreasing returns to capital create a wedge between the PV of future generations' willingness to pay (WTP) and the PV of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256940
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How Volatile is ENSO for Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the Global Economy?
Chu, Lan-Fen; McAleer, Michael; Chen, Chi-Chung - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
This paper analyzes two indexes in order to capture the volatility inherent in El Niños Southern Oscillations (ENSO), develops the relationship between the strength of ENSO and greenhouse gas emissions, which increase as the economy grows, with carbon dioxide being the major greenhouse gas, and...
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The Crisis Sensitivity of European Countries and Regions: Stylized Facts and Spatial Heterogeneity
Groot, Stefan P.T.; Mohlmann, Jan L.; Garretsen, Harry; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
This paper investigates the impact of the recent global recession on European countries and regions. We first present … several stylized facts as to the heterogeneous impact of the global recession on individual European countries and regions. We …
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Optimal Government Spending and Unemployment
Linnemann, Ludger; Schabert, Andreas - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
We study optimal government spending in a business cycle model with frictional unemployment. The Ramsey optimal policy …
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Business Cycles and Compositional Variation in U.S. Unemployment
Abbring, Jaap H.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ours, Jan C. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 1997
In the past decades several features of U.S. unemployment dynamics have been investigated empirically. The original … focus of research was on the duration of unemployment. In later studies the cyclicality of incidence and duration …, compositional effects and duration dependence of the exit rate out of unemployment have been investigated. Unlike the partial …
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