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How has the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Outdoor Recreation in the U.S.? A Revealed Preference Approach
Landry, Craig E.; Bergstrom, John C.; Salazar, John; … - 2020
This study examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on outdoor recreation visits and values using a unique … reported in a nationwide survey of outdoor recreation participants. The demand models incorporate visitors’ COVID-19 related … has had negative effects on both recreation visits and values. We recommend that recreation site managers focus on …
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Macroeconomic spillovers of weather shocks across U.S. states
Bacchiocchi, Emanuele; Bastianin, Andrea; Moramarco, … - 2024
We estimate the short-run effects of severe weather shocks on local economic activity and assess cross-border spillovers operating through economic linkages between U.S. states. We measure weather shocks using a detailed county-level database on emergency declarations triggered by natural...
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Climate Change and Economic Activity: Evidence from U.S. States
Mohaddes, Kamiar; Ng, Ryan N. C.; Pesaran, M. Hashem; … - 2022
We investigate the long-term macroeconomic effects of climate change across 48 U.S. states over the period 1963.2016 using a novel econometric strategy which links deviations of temperature and precipitation (weather) from their long-term moving-average historical norms (climate) to various...
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A fair share: Burden-sharing preferences in the United States and China
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Krupnick, Alan; … - 2010
Using a choice experiment, we investigated preferences for distributing the economic burden of decreasing CO2 emissions in the two largest CO2-emitting countries: the United States and China. We asked respondents about their preferences for four burden-sharing rules to reduce CO2 emissions...
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A fair share : burden-sharing preferences in the United States and China
Carlsson, Frederik; Kataria, Mitesh; Krupnick, Alan J.; … - 2010
Using a choice experiment, we investigated preferences for distributing the economic burden of decreasing CO2 emissions in the two largest CO2-emitting countries: the United States and China. We asked respondents about their preferences for four burden-sharing rules to reduce CO2 emissions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688997
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Benefit-cost analysis of environmental projects : a plethora of systematic biases
Graves, Philip E. - 2010
There are many reasons to suspect that benefit-cost analysis applied to environmental policies will result in policy decisions that will reject those environmental policies. The important question, of course, is whether those rejections are based on proper science. The present paper explores...
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A choice modelling approach for assessment of use and quasi-option values in urban planning for areas of environmental interest
Strazzera, Elisabetta; Cherchi, Elisabetta; Ferrini, Silvia - 2008
This study adopts a discrete choice modelling methodology to evaluate individuals' preferences over planning alternatives for an urban site of environmental interest. Since such projects involve some uncertainty and irreversibility, a special attention is devoted to the estimation of the...
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Weathering the storm : measuring household willingness-to-pay for risk-reduction in post-Katrina New Orleans
Landry, Craig; Hindsley, Paul; Bin, Okmyung; … - In: Southern economic journal 77 (2011) 4, pp. 991-1013
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Revealed preferences for climate protection when the purely individual perspective is relaxed : evidence from a framed field experiment
Löschel, Andreas; Sturm, Bodo; Uehleke, Reinhard - 2013
In this paper, we investigate the real demand for climate protection when the purely individual perspective of existing revealed preference studies is relaxed. This is achieved in two treatments; first, we determine the information subjects receive about the demand revealed by other subjects in...
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Consumer preferences for country-of-origin of US beef products : a meta analysis
Yu, Xiaohua; Gao, Zhifeng - 2011
By conducting a meta-analysis with 50 observations collected from 15 primary studies, we systematically analyze heterogeneities in consumer preferences for the Country-of-Origin (COO) of U.S. beef products. The main findings include that consumers in Asian countries (Korea and Japan) are willing...
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