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Fly or cry: is airport noise costly?
Nitsch, Volker - 2009
Airport noise is costly. Airport location is typically associated with lower property prices. Airport expansion often sparks protests by local residents. In this paper, I provide new evidence on the costs of airport-related noise (and other disamenities of airports) for individuals. In contrast...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872205
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Benefit-cost analysis of environmental projects : a plethora of systematic biases
Graves, Philip E. - 2010
There are many reasons to suspect that benefit-cost analysis applied to environmental policies will result in policy decisions that will reject those environmental policies. The important question, of course, is whether those rejections are based on proper science. The present paper explores...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003997569
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Public investment as commitment
Gerlagh, Reyer; Liski, Matti - 2011
Should public assets such as infrastructure, education, and the environment earn the same return as private investments? The long-term nature of public investments provides commitment to current preferences, which justifies lower than private returns for time-inconsistent decision markers. An...
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The marginal cost of public funds : a brief guide
Bastani, Spencer - 2023
When deciding on the social desirability of public investment, the cost of a project is sometimes adjusted by a factor known as the Marginal Cost of Public Funds (MCPF) which captures the cost of raising public funds through distortionary taxation. However, there is no scholarly consensus on...
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Risk aversion and the value of risk to life
Bommier, Antoine; Villeneuve, Bertrand - 2004
This paper argues for an alternative methodology to estimate the value of risk to life. By relaxing the assumption of additive separability, we introduce risk aversion with respect to the length of life and show that the extended model better fits available data. This is crucial for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450654
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Homevoters vs. leasevoters : a spatial analysis of airport effects
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Maennig, Wolfgang - 2013 - Version: March 2013
We use a public referendum on a new air traffic concept in Berlin, Germany as a natural experiment to analyze how the interaction of tenure and capitalization effects shapes the outcome of direct democracy processes. We distinguish between homevoters, i.e., voters who are homeowners, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764375
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Après nous le déluge? : direct democracy and intergenerational conflicts in ageing societies
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Maennig, Wolfgang; Steenbeck, Malte - 2016 - Version: January 2016
To assess the likely effects of population ageing on the outcomes of direct democracy, we analyze the effect of age on voting decisions in public referenda. To this end, we provide the first quantitative review of the literature and a case study of the Stuttgart 21 referendum on one of the...
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An analysis of peer effects on vaccination behavior using a model of privately provided public goods
Ibuka, Yoko; Itaya, Jun-ichi; Miyazato, Naomi - 2018
Traditional economic models of vaccination behavior simply assume that agents free-ride on the vaccination decisions of … conjectural variation model, to explain how a positive peer effect regarding vaccination behavior arises. We conduct two empirical … studies using Japanese data in these models. The first empirical analysis, using a data set on the vaccination behavior of …
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One-sided private provision of public goods with implicit Lindahl pricing
Meier, Volker - 2010
We consider a sequential game in which one player produces a public good and the other player can influence this decision by making an unconditional transfer. An efficient allocation requires the Lindahl property: the sum of the two (implicit) individual prices has to be equal to the resource...
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Carbon prices for the next thousand years
Gerlagh, Reyer; Liski, Matti - 2012
Climate is a persistent asset, bar none: changes in climate-related stocks have consequences spanning over centuries or possibly millennia to the future. To reconcile the discounting of such far-distant impacts and realism of the shorter-term decisions, we consider hyperbolic time-preferences in...
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