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Public goods and services supplied by nature require an active government intervention to ensure their provision. Anyway, prior to the implementation of any policy, planners should compare the costs and benefits caused by their decisions, a non-trivial task when policies and regulations are...
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The valuation of the risk of life is a key element in the cost-benefit analysis in the majority of the public policies directed to reduce the mortality risk. Although the estimation of the costs is, in fact, non-problematic, the quantification and monetisation of benefits is highly complex due...
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In many recreational sites, marine coastal water can be affected by the presence of algal blooms, having potential impacts, although not exclusively, on recreational activities. This paper applies a choice experiment to elicit the marginal value for a set of attributes describing coastal water...
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Benefit transfer has gained importance in public policy evaluation. Indeed, it allows using results from one or more valuation exercises in a cost-benefit analysis context. However, there are still key methodological issues capturing the interest of researchers, relating to both the best way to...
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Public policies are courses of action by a government in response to public problems in the real world with the aim of meeting the needs of society. Such policies must be coordinated to avoid inefficiencies. Most attempts to model public policy coordination are qualitative and, therefore, do not...
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This paper investigates heterogeneity in preferences for forest recreators in Mallorca, Spain. We develop a latent class approach combining discrete and continuous representations of tastes and compare it with the conventional latent class and random parameter logit approaches. We investigate...
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Los intentos de cuantificación del valor estadístico de la vida (VEV) a través de los intercambios entre riesgo y salario se han desarrollado mayoritariamente a partir del Modelo de Salarios Hedónicos. Bajo este esquema conceptual, el presente trabajo realiza una estimación del VEV a partir...
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