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Does a Nearby Murder Affect Housing Prices and Rents? The Case of Sydney
Klimova, Anastasia; Lee, Adrian D. - Finance Discipline Group, Business School - 2014
We measure the impact of murders on prices and rents of homes in Sydney. We find that housing prices fall by 3.9% for homes within 0.2 miles of the murder, in the year following the murder, and weaker results in the second year after a murder. We do not find any effects of murders on rents....
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Does a Nearby Murder Affect Housing Prices and Rents? The Case of Sydney
Klimova, Anastasia; Lee, Adrian D. - Economics Discipline Group, Business School - 2014
We measure the impact of murders on prices and rents of homes in Sydney. We find that housing prices fall by 3.9% for homes within 0.2 miles of the murder, in the year following the murder, and weaker results in the second year after a murder. We do not find any effects of murders on rents....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010883518
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Sacred Values? The Effect of Information on Attitudes toward Payments for Human Organs
Elias, Julio J.; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Many economic transactions are prohibited—even in the absence of health or safety concerns or negative externalities—because of ethical concerns that cause these exchanges to be perceived as “repugnant” if conducted through a market. Establishing a system of payments for human organs is...
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Regional Crime Rates and Fear of Crime: WISIND Findings
Bug, Mathias; Kroh, Martin; Meier, Kristina - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 5 (2015) 12, pp. 167-176
Many people are afraid of falling prey to crime. The present report investigates the extent to which this fear is in … line with the actual regional crime rates. This analysis is based on data from a comprehensive database on the fear of … crime, combined with police crime statistics (specifically, adjusted crime statistics which factor in the "dark figure" of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207405
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Regionale Kriminalitätsbelastung und Kriminalitätsfurcht: Befunde der WISIND-Studie
Bug, Mathias; Kroh, Martin; Meier, Kristina - In: DIW Wochenbericht 82 (2015) 12, pp. 259-269
Many people are afraid of falling prey to crime. The present report investigates the extent to which this fear is in … line with the actual regional crime rates. This analysis is based on data from a comprehensive database on the fear of … crime, combined with police crime statistics (specifically, adjusted crime statistics which factor in the "dark figure" of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207412
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Lokale Kriminalitätsberichterstattung: Abbild oder Zerrspiegel von Kriminalität?
Um, Eric van; Huch, Michael; Bug, Mathias - In: DIW Wochenbericht 82 (2015) 12, pp. 288-294
The present report analyzes crime reporting in newspapers and compares this to actual crime rates and fear of crime …. One key finding is that crime-related issues play a comparativelyminor role in local editions of regional subscription …. It is often alleged that crime in the media is ubiquitous but this can only be confirmed to a limited degree in local …
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Awareness and the Demand of Safe Drinking Water Practices
Ahmed, Eatzaz; Sattar, Abdul - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
The demand for environmental goods is often low in developing countries. The major causes are awareness regarding the contamination of water and poverty, but less attention has been paid to the former reason. We use a household survey from Hyderabad city and estimate the contribution of...
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Hedonic Model with Discrete Consumer Heterogeneity and Horizontal Differentiated Housing
Maslianskaïa-Pautrel, Masha - French Association of Environmental and Resource … - 2015
This paper investigates how the hedonic equilibrium is modified when discrete consumer heterogeneity with horizontal differentiated housing supply is assumed. Our results are threefold. First, discrete consumer heterogeneity leads to a segmentation of the hedonic price function at equilibrium...
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Does subsidizing investments in energy efficiency reduce energy consumption? Evidence from Germany
Dieckhoener, Caroline - Energiewirtschaftliches Institut (EWI), Universität zu … - 2012
Improving energy efficiency is one of the three pillars of the European energy and climate targets for 2020 and has led to the introduction of several policy measures to promote energy efficiency. The paper analyzes the effectiveness of subsidies in increasing energy efficiency in residential...
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The Impact of Hazardous Industrial Facilities on Housing Prices : A Comparison of Parametric and Semiparametric Hedonic Price Models
Grislain-Letrémy, Céline; Katossky, Arthur - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique … - 2014
The willingness of households to pay for prevention against industrial risks can be revealed by real estate markets. By using very rich microdata, we study housing prices in the vicinity of hazardous industries near three important French cities. We show that the impact of hazardous plants on...
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