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This paper analyses the role of the intensity of output market competition, firm's technology and of the incidence of collective wage-bargaining on firm's adjustment strategies to adverse shocks using firm-level data for Macedonia. We find that international character of product market...
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The paper deals with the social and economic dimensions of climate change impacts and adaptation in Italy. The ultimate aim of the paper is to provide policy makers and experts with a conceptual framework, as well as methodological and operational tools for dealing with climate change impacts...
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The widespread use of pesticides in agriculture provides a particularly complex pattern of multidimensional negative side-effects, ranging from food safety related effects to the deterioration of farmland ecosystems. The assessment of the economic implications of such negative processes is...
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Multi-attribute stated preference data, derived through choice experiments, is used to investigate the consequence of a finite number of preference groups in a sample of Yorkshire Water residential customers on the conditional distributions of willingness to pay in the sample. The research...
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research, especially in the field of technology adoption. According to the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), a widely used and … well established theory to explain behavior, salient beliefs are considered to be the dominant determinants of a person …
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We study a dynamic model of opinion formation in social networks. In our model, boundedly rational agents update … opinions by averaging over their neighbors' expressed opinions, but may misrepresent their own opinion by conforming or counter …-conforming with their neighbors. We show that an agent's social influence on the long-run group opinion is increasing in network …
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