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European Forests and Carbon Sequestration Services : An Economic Assessment of Climate Change Impacts

Ding, Helen; Nunes, Paulo A. L. D.; Teelucksingh, Sonja S. - 2015

in the evaluation of climate impacts on European forests: Firstly, future projections yield different states of the world …

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Research Evaluation as a Policy Design Tool : Mapping Approaches Across a Set of Case Studies

Papponetti, Valeria; Bucchi, Massimiano - 2007

This paper provides an overview of research evaluation practices across countries. The main aim is to investigate … science policy and introduces the main performers of research assessment. A short overview of how evaluation is approached at … possible to identify a clear research evaluation framework. In some cases, new strategies have been devised to improve the …

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Estimating the Value of Safety with Labor Market Data : Are the Results Trustworthy?

Hintermann, Beat; Alberini, Anna; Markandya, Anil - 2006

We use a panel dataset of UK workers to look for evidence of compensating wage differentials for workplace risk. Risk data are available at the four-digit industry level or at the three-digit occupation level. We discuss various econometric problems associated with the hedonic wage approach,...

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Paying for Permanence : Public Preferences for Contaminated Site Cleanup

Alberini, Anna; Tonin, Stefania; Turvani, Margherita; … - 2006

We use conjoint choice questions to investigate people's preferences for income and reductions in mortality risks delivered by contaminated site remediation policies. Our survey is self-administered using the computer by residents of four cities in Italy with severely contaminated sites. We...

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Discount Rates in Risk V. Money and Money V. Money Tradeoffs

Alberini, Anna; Chiabai, Aline - 2006

We use data from a survey of residents of five Italian cities conducted in late Spring 2004 to estimate the discount rates implicit in (a) money v. future risk reductions and (b) money v. money tradeoffs. We find that the mean personal discount rate is 2% in (a) and 8.7% in (b). The latter is...

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Valuing the Cultural Monuments of Armenia : Bayesian Updating of Prior Beliefs in Contingent Valuation

Alberini, Anna; Longo, Alberto - 2007

We use contingent valuation to place a value on the conservation of built cultural heritage sites in Armenia. When we present the hypothetical scenario in the questionnaire we spell out what would happen to the monuments in the absence of the government conservation program. We posit that...

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The Public Management of Risk : Separating Ex Ante and Ex Post Monitors

Hiriart, Yolande - 2010

When a firm undertakes risky activities, the conflict between social and private incentives to implement safety care requires public intervention which can take the form of both monetary incentives but also ex ante or ex post monitoring, i.e., before or after an accident occurs. We delineate the...

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The Effect of Allowance Allocations on Cap-and-Trade System Performance

Hahn, Robert W. - 2010

We examine an implication of the “Coase Theorem” which has had an important impact both on environmental economics and on public policy in the environmental domain. Under certain conditions, the market equilibrium in a cap-and-trade system will be cost-effective and independent of the...

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Who Should Bear the Cost of China’s Carbon Emissions Embodied in Goods for Exports?

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2013

China's capital-intensive, export-oriented, spectacular economic growth since launching its open-door policy and economic reforms in late 1978 not only has created jobs and has lifted millions of the Chinese people out of poverty, but also has given rise to unprecedented environmental pollution...

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Consumption and Precautionary Saving : An Empirical Analysis Under Both Financial and Environmental Risks

Baiardi, Donatella - 2014

This paper studies the empirical relationship between consumption and saving under two different sources of uncertainty: financial risk and environmental risk. The analysis is carried out using time series data for six advanced economies in the period 1965-2007. The results support the...

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