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Natural hazard risk and life satisfaction : empirical evidence for U.S. hurricanes
Berlemann, Michael; Eurich, Marina - 2020
The ongoing process of climate change goes along with an increase in the frequency and severity of various sorts of natural disasters. While the existing literature has almost exclusively focused on studying the direct effects resulting from different types of disasters, the effect of changing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012436249
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A decomposition of multidimensional economic well-being : an application to Spanish regions
Díaz Caro, Carlos; Pérez Mayo, Jesús - 2015 - (Early draft version)
The aim of this paper is to analyze the evolution of well-being changes due to, on one side, the changes in the weighting scheme and, on the other, changes in the indicators along the time. An alternative methodology is proposed in this paper that allows one to decompose a multidimensional index...
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The value of public service broadcasting in Japan : the life satisfaction approach
Okuyama, Naoko - 2017
Evaluation of amenities and benefits of public service broadcasting is crucially important with the accelerated convergence of broadcasting and telecommunications and the increasing heterogeneities of media use by individuals. With the use of the microdata provided from a survey carried out by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011750480
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Do people choose what makes them happy and how do they decide at all? : a theoretical inquiry
Scheuer, Niklas - 2020
We develop a theoretical model that jointly explains optimal choices and happiness. We work with constant elasticity of substitution functions for utility and happiness. Employing a choice framework, individuals are confronted with two options. When there exists a trade-off, we determine...
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Comparative analysis of the level of satisfaction with the financial situation in Romania and EU countries
Necula, Diana Maria - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : trends and …, (pp. 224-233). 2023
The paper analyzes the satisfaction regarding the financial situation in Romania compared to the rest of the member countries of the European Union. The work analyzed indicators that express the material well-being of a society such as: GDP and Median Income, but also satisfaction regarding the...
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An evaluation of energy-environment-economic efficiency for EU, APEC and ASEAN countries : designof a Target-Oriented DFM model with fixedfactors in Data Envelopment Analysis
Suzuki, Soushi; Nijkamp, Peter - 2015
This paper aims to offer an advanced assessment methodology for sustainable national energy-environment … with realistic circumstances in our search for an efficiency improvement projection in combined energy-environment … Super-efficiency (SE) approach to DEA is used in our comparative study on the efficiency assessment of energy-environment …
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To raise or not to raise? : impact assessment of Russia's incremental gas price reform
Heyndrickx, Christophe; Alexeeva-Taleebi, Victoria; … - 2014
One of grand challenges which are faced by Russia today is to deregulate its gas market while favouring longer-term growth of economy. Since the 1990s, several proposals for structural reforms of Russian gas industry have been intensively debated, including the split-up of Gazprom. From the...
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Software for energy audit of households
Ratner, Pavel - 2014
Nowadays Russian government pays a lot of attention to solutions of the high energy intensive production system in the country. The key factors of low efficiency of regional energy saving programs is the lack of approved standards and algorithms in the area of energy audit. In practice, both...
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A preference allocation-DFM model in Data Envelopment Analysis : an application to Energy-Environment-Economic efficiency in Japan-
Suzuki, Soushi; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - 2012
problem relates to a non-balanced gEnergy-Environment-Economic h policy which does not, but should incorporate gelectrical … make an effort to achieve more balanced and more efficient gEnergy-Environment-Economic h policy in Japan, even if Japan … decision maker. Nevertheless, in order to achieve efficiency improvement in Japan fs gEnergy-Environment-Economic h policy at a …
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[Implications of an increase in domestic prices of gas in Russia, an application of the regional economic model SUSTRUS]
Heyndrickx, Christophe; Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria; … - 2012
The present paper studies the effect of an upward correction of the natural gas price on the Russian domestic market. Russia has the largest gas reserves in the world and currently produces around 550 billion cubic meters of gas each year. Sixty percent of the production is sold domestically at...
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