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Coasian payments for agricultural external benefits - an empirical cross-section analysis

Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Pruckner, Gerald J - 2005

This paper deals with a cross section analysis of local compensation payments to farmers for their provision of landscape amenities in alpine tourist communities. These payments can be interpreted as the outcomes of Coasian negotiations. Based on Austrian data we empirically identify the...

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Entry and competition in freight transport: the case of a prospective transalpine rail link between France and Italy

Prady, Delphine; Ullrich, Hannes - 2010

We analyze the expected effects of building a rail tunnel between Lyon and Turin on i) the market shares of the established and the new suppliers, and ii) consumer surplus. The prospective project consists of a 53km rail tunnel providing freight shippers with a new alpine path. We calibrate an...

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Consumer welfare and unobserved heterogeneity in discrete choice models: The value of alpine road tunnels

Cerquera Dussán, Daniel; Ullrich, Hannes - 2010

We investigate the sensitivity of consumer surplus estimates to parametric assumptions on individual preference heterogeneity in a discrete choice framework. We compare results from a parametric random coefficients logit model and a recently proposed nonparametric sieve estimator. In particular,...

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Nationale und transnationale Städtenetzwerke in der Alpenregion

Behringer, Jeanette - 2003

Die vorliegende Studie thematisiert die Netzwerke „Allianz in den Alpen“ und das „Klimabündnis Österreich“, die … „Allianz in den Alpen“ sowie das „Klimabündnis Österreich“ näher beleuchtet (Entstehung, Ziele, Strukturen, Finanzierung und … problemorientierte Netzwerke bezeichnet werden: Während die „Allianz in den Alpen“ sich dezidiert auf die besonderen Probleme des …

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Tourismus und Regionalentwicklung in Bayern

Job, Hubert (contributor); Mayer, Marius (contributor) - 2013

Trotz der großen Bedeutung des Tourismus für die regionale Entwicklung durch seine Rolle als Wirtschaftsfaktor und Arbeitgeber gerade in ländlichen, strukturschwächeren Räumen wird der Tourismus im neuen Bayerischen Landesentwicklungsprogramm kaum mehr erwähnt. Als Ersatz soll das...

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Trade along the Ottoman border in post-War era: Commerce in Mitrowitz according to the Austrian customs registers (1719-1723)

Elibol, Numan - In: The Journal of European Economic History (JEEH) 52 (2023) 1, pp. 11-65

The trade in Mitrowitz in the period following the signing of the commercial treaty of Passarowitz between Austria and the Ottoman Empire in 1718 was lively. It reflected the characteristics of both domestic and border trade, but Mitrowitz also served as a transit region. Commercial activities...

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Multiple Imputation in the Austrian Household Survey on Housing Wealth

Albacete, Nicolas - 2012

This paper presents the multiple imputation model for the imputation of the missing values of the Austrian Household Survey on Housing Wealth 2008. It is based on Bayesian inference and on the fully conditional specification approach. Both theoretical framework and model specification are...

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A structural interpretation of the impact of the great recession on the Austrian economy using an estimated DSGE model

Fenz, Gerhard; Reiss, Lukas; Schneider, Martin - 2012

In this paper we present an analysis of the impact of the great recession of the years 2008 and 2009 on the Austrian economy. For this purpose, we utilize the new estimated DSGE model of the OeNB for the Austrian economy within the Euro area. This model is a small open-economy version of Smets &...

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Have Changes in the Financial Structure Affected Bank Profitability? Evidence for Austria

Rumler, Fabio; Waschiczek, Walter - 2012

We examine the impact of changes in the financial structure of the Austrian banking sector over the past 15 years, such as disintermediation, internationalization and privatization, on the profitability of banks. Several proxies based on bank balance sheet data at the micro level as well as...

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The Role of Card Acceptance in the Transaction Demand for Money

Huynh, Kim P.; Schmidt-Dengler, Philipp; Stix, Helmut - 2014

The use of payment cards, either debit or credit, is becoming more and more widespread in developed economies. Nevertheless, the use of cash remains significant. We hypothesize that the lack of card acceptance at the point of sale is a key reason why cash continues to play an important role. We...

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