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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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Evaluating the efficiency of a N-input tax under different policy scenarios at different scales
Petsakos, Athanasios; Jayet, Pierre-Alain - 2010
Nitrate pollution from agriculture is an important environmental problem, caused bythe excessive use of inorganic fertilizers. The internalization of this externality, via a tax onmineral nitrogen, could lead to a second best solution, reducing nitrate emissions. Severalauthors suggest that a...
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Cost Sharing under Uncertainty: An Algorithmic Approach to Cooperative Interval-Valued Games
Kimms, Alf; Drechsel, Julia - 2009
Recently, Branzei, Dimitrov, and Tijs (2003) introduced cooperative interval-valued games. Among other insights, the notion of an interval core has been coined and proposed as a solution concept for interval-valued games. In this paper we will present a general mathematical programming algorithm...
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Crop insurance market development in a transition economy: The case of Kazakhstan
Heidelbach, Olaf; Bokusheva, Raushan - 2009
programming model, which tests the utility-efficiency of various risk-management instruments. …
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Spatially explicit farming system modelling for an efficient agri-environmental policy design
Havlik, Petr; Bamiere, Laure; Jacquet, Florence; Millet, Guy - 2008
A mathematical programming model is developed and associated to a spatial pattern index (Ripley L function) to analyse the optimal reserve design and implementation for the Little Bustard conservation in Plaine de Niort. The model structure corresponds to three spatial levels, fields, farm and...
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RISK MANAGEMENT THROUGH INSURANCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL EXTERNALITIES FROM AGRICULTURAL INPUT USE: AN ITALIAN CASE STUDY
Capitanio, Fabian - 2008
countries. To examine the effects of public risk management programs onoptimal nitrogen fertilizer use and land allocation to …
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Effiziente Reduktion des Produktionsrisikos im Ackerbau durch Ertragsversicherungen
Gunnar Breustedt - 2004
steigern. Eine Divergenz im systemischen Risiko kann zu einer Divergenz im Versicherungsangebot führen. Eine öffentliche …­kosten als Hofertragsversicherungen. Letztere können aber, abhängig von den Selbstbeteiligungen, das Risiko der Landwirte stärker …
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Selling and Leasing Software with Network Externality
Zhang, Jennifer; Seidmann, Abraham - University of Toledo; University of Rochester - 2006
Previous studies suggested that a monopoly durable goods seller can useleasing to effectively avoid the time-inconsistent problem raised byCoase Conjecture. This paper extends those previous works by examiningthe monopoly seller's selling and leasing strategy for a special type ofdurable good...
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