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The paper examines the use of choice experiments (CE) to assess the economic value of alternative rail noise reduction interventions on the so-called Brennero railway, Italy. The novelty of this paper is threefold. To our knowledge, this is the first study on the valuation of noise conducted in...
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This paper is the first to examine the effect of minimum price guaranteesin a sequential search model. Minimum price guarantees are notadvertised and only known to consumers when they come to the shop.We show that in such an environment, minimum price guarantees increasethe value of buying the...
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Rohstofflieferant, aber auch als Biofabrik der Zukunft. Die Anwendung von Biotechnologie in der Pflanzenzüchtung (Crop Science) wird … Thema wird so kontrovers diskutiert wie die zunehmende Industrialisierung der Landwirtschaft mit Hilfe der Biotechnologie …
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biotechnology. More than ever, intelligent decisions about this technology would be based on scientific data and objective analyses …; available alternatives are few. Because of its unique features, the economic study in biotechnology deviates from the standard …, just like pesticides, some biotechnology products have externality effects. Thus the economic framework for its analysis …
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Developing countries, still heavily dependent on agriculture, must now harness biotechnology to modernize agricultural … production and diversify product outputs. The Philippines was one of the first Asian countries to establish a biotechnology … research and development program. However, not much progress in harnessing the tools of biotechnology has been achieved …
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Biotechnology is often regarded as a key technology with high potential for far-reaching social, environmental and … economic impacts. Among others, the development and diffusion of biotechnology may have considerable economic effects on … production and employment. This paper analyzes the economic impacts of different diffusion paths of biotechnology in some major …
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Nach einer mehrjährigen Konsolidierungsphase konnte die deutsche Biotechnologiebranche zunehmend Marktanteile im internationalen Wettbewerb gewinnen. Derzeitig werden zwei Entwicklungen innerhalb der Branche intensiv diskutiert: die Osterweiterung der Europäischen Union und die zunehmende...
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concept. Information and communications technologies (ICT), biotechnology and nanotechnology are viewed as existing or … a GPT. Nanotechnology shows signs of being potentially widely applicable, but for biotechnology the channels of …
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Cutting-edge biotechnology, mainly consisting of gene editing, gene drives and gene synthesis, is developing and …
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bounded rationality macroeconomics. Finally, I use the evolution of modern biotechnology in the United States to illustrate …
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