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Demand for Environmental Quality: An Empirical Analysis of Consumer Behavior in Sweden

Ghalwash, Tarek - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2006

In this paper we estimate the income elasticity of demand for recreational services and other traditional groups of goods in Sweden and test for potential changes in such estimates over the twentieth century. Due to the difficulty of directly observing the demand for recreational services, we...

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Income, Energy Taxation, and the Environment: An Econometric Analysis

Ghalwash, Tarek - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2006

This thesis consists of four papers: two of them deal with the relationship between consumption, energy taxation, and emissions on macro level, and two of them focus on the effects of changes in consumption and income on the environmental quality on a micro level. The main objective of paper...

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The Value of Preserving Nature - Preference Uncertainty and Distributional Effects

Broberg, Thomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2007

This thesis deals with valuation of nonmarket goods using contingent valuation and consists of four papers and an introduction to the research area. Paper [I] examines the public benefits from preserving old-growth forest in the submountainous region in Sweden. Specifically, it analyzes a...

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Assessing the non-timber value of old-growth forests in Sweden

Broberg, Thomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2007

This paper estimates the public benefit of preserving 126 000 hectares of old-growth forest in the sub-mountainous region of Sweden through contingent valuation. The primary benefit of this in-situ conservation of biodiversity is the forest’s relative diversity and richness, which provides...

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Examining the income-effect in contingent valuation -The importance of making the right choices

Broberg, Thomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2007

This paper focuses on three important issues in estimating the relationship between WTP and income using contingent valuation: 1) the choice of income measure; 2) the modelling choice; and 3) the social context. Addressing the first two issues, a sensitivity analysis is performed. The results show...

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A new approach for analyzing multiple bounded WTP data - Certainty dependent payment card intervals

Broberg, Thomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2007

In this paper we analyze the multiple-bounded (MB) format in which uncertainty is directly incorporated into the WTP question. We introduce a new approach to estimate mean and median willingness to pay (WTP) using MB data by allowing respondents to expand their WTP intervals by shifting their...

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The value of preserving the four large predators in Sweden: Regional differences considered

Broberg, Thomas; Brännlund, Runar - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2006

This paper contributes with an applied policy analysis of the predator preservation policy in Sweden. We estimate the social benefits from preserving the four large predators in Sweden by applying a contingent valuation approach. The vehicle we use to fulfil our objectives is data from a...

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Economics without markets. Four papers on the Contingent Valuation and Stated Preference Methods

Vredin Johansson, Maria - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 1999

elephant. The third paper is on the assessment of attribute values for work trips. The fourth paper models the number of … Swedish households' willingness to pay (WTP) for the preservation of the African elephant. Methodological aspects of the CV … to elephant protection or not and, then, decides on the size of the donation. The model is estimated with Heckman's two …

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A New Approach to Modelling and Forecasting Monthly Guest Nights in Hotels

Brännäs, Kurt; Hellström, Jörgen; Nordström, Jonas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 1999

Starting from a day-to-day model on hotel specific guest nights we obtain an integer-valued moving average model by cross-sectional and temporal aggregation. The two parameters of the aggregate model reflect the daily mean check-in and the daily check-out probability. Letting the parameters be...

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The Number of Shareholders - Time Series Modelling and Some Empirical Result

Brännäs, Kurt - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2013

The paper discusses some model related issues for time series of the number of shareholders in a stock. The point of departure is an integer-valued autoregressive model of order one. Empirical results are presented for some frequently traded stocks on the Finnish and Swedish stock markets. In...

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