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Ask your doctor or pharmacist!: On the effect of self-dispensing physicians on pharmaceutical coverage

Bannert, Matthias; Iselin, David - 2015

In most developed countries drugs are dispensed to patients through physicians and pharmacists. This paper studies the effects of allowing doctors to directly dispense drugs to patients (self-dispensation) on pharmaceutical coverage. We use a Swiss dataset in our empirical analysis because...

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Economic assessment of the recreational value of ecosystems in Great Britain

Sen, Antara; Darnell, A.; Bateman, Ian; Munday, P.; … - 2012

In this paper we present a novel methodology to determine the annual value of recreational visit flows to different habitat types in Great Britain. We combine different empirical models to predict the spatial distributions of recreational value across Great Britain. The models use a combination...

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Monetary Valuation of Aircraft Noise

Dekkers, Jasper; van der Straaten, Willemijn - 2008

In densely-populated countries and in particular in large metropolitan areas, the presence of so much human activity causes all sorts of negative externalities, for example traffic noise disturbance. These externalities call for corrective measures by the government. Economists have developed a...

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Mapping marginality hotspots: Geographical targeting for poverty reduction

Graw, Valerie; Ladenburger, Christine - 2012

This mapping approach aims to make the marginalized and poor visible by identifying areas with difficult biophysical and socio-economic conditions. Mapping using different data sources and data types gives deeper insight into possible causal interlinkages and offers the opportunity for...

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Intraregionale Unterschiede in der Carsharing-Nachfrage: Eine GIS-basierte empirische Analyse

Braun, Andreas; Hochschild, Volker; Koch, Andreas - 2013

unterschiedliche Nachfrage nach Carsharing-Angeboten beeinflussen. Basierend auf einem Geographischen Informationssystem (GIS) wird ein … a geographic information system (GIS) and comprehensive empirical data from the city of Tübingen, Germany, we explain …

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Transferring multivariate benefit functions using geographical information systems

Bateman, Ian J.; Brainard, Julii S.; Lovett, Andrew A. - 1998

successfully modelling the inter-site variation in predictors. The present study employs a geographical information system (GIS) to … target sites. The paper applies Poisson regression techniques to a set of GIS derived explanatory variables predicting … arrivals and consumer surplus estimates at a single target woodland recreation site. GIS techniques are then used to define a …

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Towards a sustainable capacity expansion of the Danish biogas sector

Bojesen, Mikkel; Boerboom, Luc; Skov-Petersen, Hans - 2014

Promotion of bioenergy production is an important contemporary topic around the world. Vast amounts of research are allocated towards analysing and understanding bioenergy systems, which are by nature multi-faceted. Despite a focus on the deployment of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM)...

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