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Do land markets anticipate regulatory change? : evidence from Canadian conservation policy
Bošković, Branko; Nøstbakken, Linda - 2016
Regulation often evolves, and affected consumers or firms may adjust their behavior in anticipation of potential changes to regulation. Using shifting land use regulation boundaries and oil lease prices from Canada, we estimate the effect of anticipated regulatory change on the value of land. We...
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Economic land use, ecosystem services and microfounded species dynamics
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2004
In an integrated economy-ecosystem model humans choose their land use and leave the residual land as habitat for three species forming a food chain. The size of habitat determines the diversity and abundance of species. That biodiversity generates, in turn, a flow of ecosystem services with...
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An evaluation of protected area policies in the European Union
Grupp, Tristan Earle; Mishra, Prakash; Reynaert, Mathias; … - 2023
The European Union designates 26% of its landmass as a protected area, limiting economic development to favor biodiversity. This paper uses the staggered introduction of protected-area policies between 1985 and 2020 to study the selection of land for protection and the causal effect of...
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Efficient nonanthropocentric nature protection
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2004
This paper analyzes nature protection by a social planner under different "utilitarian" social welfare functions. For that purpose we construct an integrated model of the economy and the ecosystem with explicit consideration of nonhuman species and with competition between human and nonhuman...
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The rise (and fall) of tech clusters
Kichko, Sergey; Liang, Wen-Jung; Mai, Zhaocheng; … - 2020
Tech clusters play a growing role in knowledge-based economies by accommodating high-tech firms and providing an environment that fosters location-dependent knowledge spillovers and promote R&D investments by .rms. Yet, not much is known about the economic conditions under which such entities...
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Tax streams, land rents and urban land allocation
Tang, Yugang; Su, Zhihao; Hou, Yilin; Yin, Zhendong - 2023 - This version: November, 2023
This paper examines the fiscal motives behind municipal governments' decisions to allocate commercial and residential land when two categories of land use are subject to different fiscal revenue alternatives: business-related tax and/or land rent. We use urban parcel-level land transfers during...
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Optimal cost overruns : procurement auctions and renegotiation
Herweg, Fabian; Schwarz, Marco A. - 2016 - This version: March 18, 2016
a simple design initially enhances competition in the auction. Moreover, the procurer cannot benefit from using a multi …-dimensional auction, as the optimal scoring rule depends only on the price. …
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The scope of auctions in the presence of downstream interactions and information externalities
Koska, Onur A.; Onur, Ilke; Stähler, Frank - 2015
-cost firm under incomplete information: a separating auction implies adverse selection and relies substantially on commitment to … allocation and transfer rules. A pooling auction serves as a commitment device against ex-post opportunistic behavior and … alleviates adverse selection. It can earn the investor a higher expected payoff than a separating auction, even when consistency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496103
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Cross-game learning and cognitive ability in auctions
Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kocher, Martin; … - 2021
. Employing an order-balanced design, we use first-price auctions (FPAs) to expose participants to an auction format in which …
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Pricing the ecosystem and taxing ecosystem services : a general equilibrium approach
Eichner, Thomas (contributor); Pethig, Ruediger (contributor) - 2007
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