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Natural Disasters and Agriculture: Individual Risk Preferences towards Flooding
Sauer, Johannes - 2011
. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method …-experimental approach to measure differences in the risk attitudes of farmers located in highflooding risk areas versus farmers located in … low flooding risk areas is followed. Changes in flooding risk relatedbehaviour over time is analysed and marginal effects …
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Publics, risk communication and the social amplification of risk
In: The social contours of risk. 2005
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14.661 Labor Economics I, Fall 2006
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Angrist, Joshua - 2006
Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …
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Mother's income and child mortality in southern Nigeria
Sulaiman, Ismaila Lawal - 1987
Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be positively associated with survival, both within and between countries. Preston (1975, 1976), in particular, using cross-national data for three separate decades of the 20th century,...
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The crucial role of social welfare criteria for optimal inheritance taxation
García Miralles, Esteban - 2017
impositivo constante que obtienen Piketty y Saez ; This paper calibrates the full social optimal inheritance tax rate derived by … optimal inheritance tax rates, ranging from negative (under a utilitarian criterion) to positive and large (even assuming joy …
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MODELLING THE DYNAMICS OF PRODUCTION ADJUSTMENT TO SHORT-TERM MARKET SHOCKS
Niemi, Jarkko K.; Lehtonen, Heikki - 2008
Models of agricultural economics typically operate at an annual basis or in a static equilibriumframework where inputs, outputs and their prices may change considerably. Production dynamics,however, imply that models relying on spatial and temporal aggregation do not capture the effects...
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The value of market uncertainty in a livestock epidemic
Niemi, Jarkko K.; Lehtonen, Heikki - 2008
pig producers can increase considerably when the risk of prolonged export ban increases. Production adjustments also …
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Water scarcity and optimal pricing of water
Sağlam, Yiğit - 2010
In the first chapter, I consider the institutional structures as well as the doctrines typically encountered in the surface water sector. To investigate the sources and methods of government support in the water sector, I categorize different sorts of government support according to the location...
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Dynamic Pricing of Limited Inventories When Customers Negotiate
Ahn, Hyun-Soo - 2010
Although take-it-or-leave-it pricing is the main mode of operation for many retailers, a number of retailers discreetly allow price negotiation when some haggle-prone customers ask for a bargain. At these retailers, the posted price, which itself is subject to dynamic adjustments in response to...
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For sale by owner: When to use a broker and how to price the house
Salant, Stephen W. - 1991
By using a broker, the owner of a house can speed up his search for buyers but must pay a percentage of the sale price as a commission. Nonstationarities inherent in the housing market may make it optimal to market a house “by-owner” at the outset and to retain a broker only if the house...
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