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Regional Convergence in Canada and the United States: Does the Border Matter?

Coulombe, S.; Day, K.M. - 1997

This paper compares the evolution of regional disparities in per capita incomes in Canade and the 12 American states along Canada's southern border. The phenomenon of capital accumulation as described by the neoclassical growth model can explain much of the observe decline in regional dispersion...

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A model of urban demography

Aiura, Hiroshi; Sato, Yasuhiro - Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University - 2009

This paper develops an overlapping generations model that involves the endogenous determination of fertility and an explicit city structure in order to analyze fully the social and natural changes in city populations. We provide conditions under which the model exhibits the spatial features of...

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Les jeunes adultes migrants de retour : une vitalité pour les régions

Potvin, Dominique - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine octobre (2005) 4, pp. 507-531

Dynamism, creativity, involvement are features that are regularly praised by organizations committed to development. Young migrants seem to display many such qualities especially those who return to their home regions. These qualities were shown to be characteristic of return migrants as...

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Évaluation contingente d’aménités paysagères liées à un espace vert urbain. Une application au cas du parc Balzac de la ville d’Angers

Oueslati, Walid; Madariaga, Nicole; Salanié, Julien - In: Review of Agricultural and Environmental Studies - … 87 (2008) 2, pp. 77-99

Cet article propose une évaluation contingente des services esthétiques et récréatifs rendus par un parc urbain. Les dispositions à payer d’un échantillon d’usagers d’un parc urbain dans la ville d’Angers (le parc Balzac) ont été révélées sur la base de deux scénarios...

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Migration and household adaptation to climate: A review of empirical research

Klaiber, H. Allen - In: Energy Economics 46 (2014) C, pp. 539-547

This paper reviews empirical research on migration and land use impacts associated with climate change. Household … migration arises due to changes in economic opportunities and climate amenities resulting from climate change. Throughout the … heterogeneity and the often complex interconnections between economic sectors in determining household migration. Areas in need of …

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Local economic conditions and the nature of new housing supply

Hilber, Christian; Rouwendal, Jan; Vermeulen, Wouter - 2014 - This Version: August 4, 2014

migration and is hindered by strict local land use control. Our findings imply that tight regulation may hamper metro area level …

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General Equilibrium Approach consistent with Travel Cost Method for Economic Evaluation of Beach Erosion by Climate Change

Nakajima, Kazunori; Sakamoto, Naoki - 2013

Numerous attempts have been made to evaluate economic impacts by climate change, and the evaluation method can be classified into two approaches. One is a partial equilibrium approach and the other is a general equilibrium approach. The former method includes a travel cost method (TCM) and a...

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Measurement of Use and Non-use Values of Shirakami Mountain Range by using CVM Consistent with TCM

Ohno, Eiji; Mori, Ryuta; Morisugi, Masafumi; Sao, Hiroshi - 2013

Shirakami Mountain Range has the largest primeval forest in the world, and has some public functions; the biodiversity function, the water resource cultivation function, the health and recreation function and so on. This study tries to measure its environmental economic value by using the travel...

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Measuring lost recreational benefits in Fukushima due to harmful rumors using a Poisson-inverse Gaussian regression?

Nohara, Katsuhito; Narukawa, Masaki - 2015

The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake hereafter, 'the Earthquake' and the accident involving radiation leakage at Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant No. 1 hereafter, 'NPP No. 1' brought fame to Fukushima Prefecture but not in a positive way. In general, economic damage...

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Augmenting short Cheap Talk scripts with a repeated Opt-Out Reminder in Choice Experiment surveys

Ladenburg, Jacob; Olsen, Søren Bøye - 2010

Hypothetical bias remains a major problem when valuing non-market goods with stated preference methods. Originally developed for Contingent Valuation studies, Cheap Talk has been found to effectively reduce hypothetical bias in some applications, though empirical results are ambiguous. We...

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