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Assistance to Tourism: Exploratory Estimates
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2005
In April 2005, the research paper into Assistance to Tourism: Exploratory Estimates, was released. It is the first … comprehensive attempt to quantify the extent of assistance to tourism on a comparable basis to that for other industries in … Australia. While care is needed in interpreting the results, the estimates suggest that tourism receives a lower rate of …
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Migration and the Environment in the Galapagos:An analysis of economic and policy incentives driving migration, potential impacts from migration control, and potential policies to...
Kerr, Suzi; Cardenas, Susana; Hendy, Joanna - EconWPA - 2004
From 1974 through 1997 the Galapagos experienced very rapid population growth, around six per cent per year. Sustained at this level, the population would continue to double every 12 years. Increased population brings an increased risk of invasive introduced species, which endangers the fragile...
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Multi-Unit Auctions to Allocate Water Scarcity Simulating Bidding Behaviour with Agent Based Models
Hailu, Atakelty; Thoyer, Sophie - EconWPA - 2005
Multi-unit auctions are promising mechanisms for the reallocation of water. The main advantage of such auctions is to avoid the lumpy bid issue. However, there is great uncertainty about the best auction formats when multi-unit auctions are used. The theory can only supply the structural...
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Cultural districts, property rights, and sustainable economic growth
Santagata, Walter - EconWPA - 2002
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An institutional explanation of structural unemployment of low income labour
Cool, Thomas - EconWPA - 1996
www.can.nl\~cool Comments: 39 pages in Word - zipped JEL: N0, Z0 EWP References: ewp-get/9604002 ewp-get/9604003 Report-no: Thomas Cool 96-05
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Some effect of creativity on fashion market behavior
Santagata, Walter - EconWPA - 2002
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Efficiency, subsidies and environmental adaptation of animal farming under CAP.
Mesonada, Carlos San Juan; Sperlich, Stefan; Murillo, Carmen - EconWPA - 2005
The purpose of this paper is to model the interaction between the targets of the current CAP: environmental adaptation, subsidies and efficiency the of animal farming. To this end we first have to identify the production frontier and relative efficiency level for each animal oriented type of...
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How Closely Do Spouses Coordinate Thier Retirement Decisions?
Johnson, Richard W. - EconWPA - 2004
This brief focuses on trends over the past two decades in employer- sponsored pension coverage. It explores who is covered by a pension plan and who is not, how much retirees receive in pension income, and how pension coverage and receipt have changed over time. This brief updates our previous...
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Consumers’ and Professionals’ Responses to Situations Raising Ethical Questions
Sirieix, Lucie; Gurviez, P.; Rohrig, C. - EconWPA - 2005
In this study we have attempted, in collaboration with an agrifood company, to compare and contrast the responses of consumers and professionals to the same set of situations raising ethical questions, in order to highlight the differences and the similarities of viewpoint between these two...
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Determinants of consumer preferences towards functional foods with seaweed ingredients
Buehrlen, Bernhard; Canavari, Maurizio; Breitschopf, Barbara - EconWPA - 2005
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