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Economic land use, ecosystem services and microfounded species dynamics
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2004
species forming a food chain. The size of habitat determines the diversity and abundance of species. That biodiversity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450672
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Economic Land Use, Ecosystem Services and Microfounded Species Dynamics
Pethig, Rudiger; Eichner, Thomas - 2021
species forming a food chain. The size of habitat determines the diversity and abundance of species. That biodiversity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319006
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Assessing the Productivity of Public Capital with a Locational Equilibrium Model
Rudd, Jeremy B. - 2000
This paper employs Roback's locational-equilibrium model of public-goods pricing, cross-sectional data from the Census of Population and Housing, and SMSA-level estimates of public capital stocks in order to examine the productive contribution of public capital. I find that public capital has a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014153352
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The Dynamics of Public Investment Under Persistent Electoral Advantage
Azzimonti, Marina - 2011
This paper studies the effects of asymmetries in re-election probabilities across parties on public policy and its subsequent propagation to the economy. The struggle between opposing groups – that disagree on the composition of public consumption – results in governments being endogenously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123322
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The Dynamics of Public Investment Under Persistent Electoral Advantage
Azzimonti, Marina - 2013
This paper studies the effects of asymmetries in re-election probabilities across parties on public policy and their subsequent propagation to the economy. The struggle between groups that disagree on targeted public spending (e.g., pork) results in governments being endogenously short-sighted:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072594
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Prevention and mitigation of epidemics : biodiversity conservation and confinement policies
Augeraud-Véron, Emmanuelle; Fabbri, Giorgio; Schubert, … - 2020
This paper presents a first model integrating the relation between biodiversity loss and zoonose pandemic risks in a … preserve a greater quantity of biodiversity, thus decreasing the probability of a pandemic occurring, and second (mitigation … biodiversity conservation is shown to be more relevant for more "forward looking" societies, with a small discount rate and a high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012263718
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Biodiversity and geography
Rauscher, Michael; Barbier, Edward - 2007
looks at optimal policies of biodiversity conservation. The subject of the paper is "natural" biodiversity, which is …. -- biodiversity ; new economic geography ; agglomeration ; species redundancy vs. endemism ; environmental regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003886036
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Exploiting hysteresis in coordination incentives for cost-effective biodiversity conservation
Drechsler, Martin; Grimm, Volker - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 3 (2023) 2, pp. 1-19
Conservation payment schemes, typically spatially homogenous, are widely used to induce biodiversity-friendly land use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014500731
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Biodiversity and Geography
Rauscher, Michael - 2014
looks at optimal policies of biodiversity conservation. The subject of the paper is natural biodiversity, which is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751891
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Estimating the value of crop diversity conservation services provided by the Czech National Programme for Agrobiodiversity
Tyack, Nicholas; Scasny, Milan - 2018
We estimate the willingness-to-pay (WTP) for conserving crop varieties for ten years in the Czech Republic using a double-bounded dichotomous choice model to analyze data collected with an online contingent valuation survey administered to a main country-wide sample of 1037 respondents and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821339