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We estimate the price elasticity of water demand with household-level data, structurally modeling the piecewise … water utility service areas …
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This paper formulates and estimates a household-level, billing-cycle water demand model under increasing block prices … household demographics in the utility's service territory to recover the impact of these factors on water demand. An index of … models are used to compute the distribution of utility-level water demand and revenues for any possible price schedule …
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Crop biodiversity has the potential to enhance resistance to strains due to biotic and abiotic factors and to improve … crop production and farm revenues. To investigate the effect of crop biodiversity on crop productivity, we build a …
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valuation of environmental attributes such as air pollution and water quality. For example, the Ricardian approach is based on a …
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Does the impact of environmental regulation differ by plant vintage and technology? We answer this question using annual Census Bureau information on 116 pulp and paper mills' vintage, technology, productivity, and pollution abatement operating costs for 1979-1990. We find a significant negative...
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In dem vorliegenden Buch analysiert René Berg die informationsökonomische Bedeutung von Informationsintermediären bei der Kanalisierung legitimer nachhaltiger Unternehmensaktivitäten. Auf Basis einer institutionentheoretisch entwickelten Soll-Nachhaltigkeitskonzeption wird ein asymmetrischer...
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Das vorliegende Buch analysiert den öffentlichen Beschaffungsprozess und untersucht, weshalb die öffentlichen Einkäufer auf Nachhaltigkeitskriterien oftmals keine Rücksicht nehmen. Florian Hepperle erforscht, welche Hemmnisse einem Mehr an Nachhaltigkeit in der öffentlichen Beschaffung im...
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Conceptual aspects of voluntary sustainability initiatives in the context of proactive sustainability strategies for supply chains -- Theoretical aspects of designing voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains -- Initial framework: a resource-based view of institutional...
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-occupational and inter-industry inequality in poorer countries (those below the world median income) and the reverse in richer …
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This paper uses firm-level information to evaluate how crises are transmitted internationally. It constructs a new data set of financial statistics, industry information, geographic data, and stock returns for over 10,000 companies in 46 countries to test what types of firms were most affected...
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