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Is EU Support to Malawi Agriculture Effective?

Zant, Wouter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

We measure the impact of the Farmers Income Diversification Program (FIDP), an EU funded program implemented in Malawi … from late 2005 onwards, aiming at increasing agricultural productivity, diversification, value addition, commercialization … increasing over the years. Evidence on diversification of crop income is less strong but still suggests increases ranging from 5 …

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How does Market Access affect Smallholder Behavior? The Case of Tobacco Marketing in Malawi

Zant, Wouter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

Transaction costs play a key role in the behaviour of smallholders in developing countries. We exploit the introduction of an additional tobacco auction floor in Malawi to investigate the impact of a reduction in transaction costs and improved market access on production per hectare and the...

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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...

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What do Experts know about Forecasting Journal Quality? A Comparison with ISI Research Impact in Finance

Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

See the article in the Annals of Financial Economics (2013). Volume 8(1), pages 1-30. Experts possess knowledge and information that are not publicly available. The paper is concerned with forecasting academic journal quality and research impact using a survey of international experts from a...

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Bayesian D-Optimal Choice Designs for Mixtures

Ruseckaite, Aiste; Goos, Peter; Fok, Dennis - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

Consumer products and services can often be described as mixtures of ingredients. Examples are the mixture of ingredients in a cocktail and the mixture of different components of waiting time (e.g., in-vehicle and out-of-vehicle travel time) in a transportation setting. Choice experiments may...

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The Impact of Monetary Policy on Economic Activity - Evidence from a Meta-Analysis

Ridhwan, Masagus M.; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

This paper presents the findings a meta-analysis identifying the causes of variation in the impact of monetary policies on economic development. The sample of observations included in our meta-analysis is drawn from primary studies that uniformly employ Vector Autoregressive (VAR) models. Our...

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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 Instituut - 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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The Effectiveness of Dutch Municipal Recycling Policies

Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Gradus, Raymond - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

The EU advocates a household waste recycling rate of more than 70%. Although the Netherlands already years ago invested in recycling policies heavily, this is still a large challenge as nowadays on average this rate is approximately 50% and nearly no municipalities have a rate above 70%. Given...

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Decoupling Economic Growth and Energy Use. An Empirical Cross-Country Analysis for 10 Manufacturing Sectors

Mulder, Peter; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

This paper provides an empirical analysis of decoupling economic growth and energy use and its various determinants by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970-1997. We explicitly aim to trace back aggregate...

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