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Natural Disasters and Agriculture: Individual Risk Preferences towards Flooding
Sauer, Johannes - 2011
This study contributes to the understanding of behavioural responses to climate change induced extreme weatherevents. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method is outlined using the empirical case of agricultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442826
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Accounting for externalities in the measurement of productivity growth: the Malmquist cost productivity measure.
Ball, E.; Fare, R.; Grosskopf, S.; Zaim, O. - 2005
responsibility. We provide an application to US agriculture to demonstrate the approach: we show that conventional measures of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429529
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Profit patterns across American agriculture.
Blank, S.C.; Erickson, K.W.; Moss, C.B. - 2005
To remain viable, agriculture in each location must offer returns that are competitive with those from alternative … study examines spatial relationships in agriculture's profitability over time. Results show temporal and spatial convergence … agriculture, raising policy implications. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429574
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Imbedding dynamic responses with imperfect information into static portraits of the regional impact of climate change
Yohe, G.W. - 2008
It is becoming increasingly clear, at least on a theoretical level, that modelers of the potential impacts of climate change must impose that change upon the world as it will be configured sometime in the future rather than confine their attention to considerations of what would happen to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435515
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Effects of the drought on California electricity supply and demand
Benenson, P.; Greene, B.; Kahn, E.; Krieg, B.; Lasater, I. - 2010
At the end of the driest year on record, California faces water shortages whose impacts will be felt with progressive severity through the summer and fall of 1977. Electric power is not entirely exempt from these impacts and could, if severly affected, compound the direct distresses of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436172
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Index of harm: a measure for comparing occupational risk across industries
Solomon, K.A.; Abraham, S.C. - 2008
fatality rates by showing the riskiest industries to be mining; agriculture, forestry, and fisheries; construction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436578
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An object-oriented approach to energy-economic modeling
Wise, M.A.; Fox, J.A.; Sands, R.D. - 2008
agriculture markets. After a discussion of some central concepts, they provide an overview of the model, focusing on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437205
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The Potential Economic Impact of Electricity Restructuring in the State of Oklahoma: Phase II Report
Hadley, SW - 2008
process to evaluate the potential price and economic impacts of restructuring the Oklahoma electric industry. The Phase I … report concentrated on providing an analysis of the Oklahoma system in the near-term, using only present generation resources … and customer demands. This Phase II study analyzed the Oklahoma power market in 2010, incorporating the potential of new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436144