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incineration lock in the region in this technological path, which may be associated to less opportunity cost and lower external …
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We examine the value of terroir, which refers to the special characteristics of a place that impart unique qualities to the wine produced. We do this by conducting a hedonic analysis of vineyard sales in the Willamette Valley of Oregon to ascertain whether site attributes, such as slope, aspect,...
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River floods are a common natural hazard in Europe, causing high mortality and immense economic damage (EM-DAT 2009). Human-induced climate change will alter intensity and frequency of extreme weather events, hence flood risk (IPCC 2012). While large-scale assessments of flood risk dominate...
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In this paper, the economic value of the impacts of climate change is assessed for different Italian economic sectors and regions. Sectoral and regional impacts are then aggregated to provide a macroeconomic estimate of variations in GDP induced by climate change in the next decades. Autonomous...
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This paper investigates the efficiency of the public sector in a sense of public performance and expenditures. For 23 …, security and infrastructure. We use several efficiency techniques (FDH, order-m) and investigate input- and output …-oriented efficiency of the public sector. We find that countries with small public sectors tend to be more efficient no matter which …
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