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Valuing Environmental Factors in Cost-Benefit Analysis Using Data Envelopment Analysis
Kuosmanen, Timo - 2007
analysis (DEA) and does not demand any price estimation for environmental impacts using traditional revealed or stated … preference methods. We show that DEA can be modified to the context of CBA by using absolute shadow prices instead of … of ECBA. We illustrate the application of the DEA approach to ECBA by means of a hypothetical numerical example where a …
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Mitigation Strategies and Costs of Climate Protection : The Effects of Etc in the Hybrid Model Mind
Edenhofer, Ottmar; Lessmann, Kai; Bauer, Nico - 2006
MIND is a hybrid model incorporating several energy related sectors in an endogenous growth model of the world economy. This model structure allows a better understanding of the linkages between the energy sectors and the macro-economic environment. We perform a sensitivity analysis and...
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The Inclusive and Sustainable Development Index : a Data Envelopment Analysis Approach
Cheng, Charles Fang Chin; Cantore, Nicola - 2021
Analysis) DEA model. The efficiency analyses have been carried out with two approaches: i) the ISID approach represents the …
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A Tale of Two Countries : Emissions Scenarios for China and India
Massetti, Emanuele - 2011
The aim of the paper is to present evidence that China and India are, and will remain, two very different actors in international negotiations to control global warming. We base our conclusions on historical data and on scenarios until 2050. The Business-as-Usual scenario (BaU) is compared to...
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Employee Representation Legislations and Innovation : Evidence from Manufacturing Sectors
Belloc, Filippo - 2016
We analyse how sectoral innovation outcomes are affected by national legislations of worker participation to corporate governance. We develop a model of employee representation laws (ERL) and innovation in the presence of incomplete labour contracts and predict heterogeneous ERL effects across...
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The Grand Experiment of Communism : Discovering the Trade-Off between Equality and Efficiency
Farvaque, Etienne; Mihailov, Alexander; Naghavi, Alireza - 2013
This paper aims to explain the rise and fall of communism by exploring the interplay between economic incentives and social preferences transmitted by ideology. We introduce inequality-averse and inefficiency-averse agents and analyze their conflict through the interaction between leaders with...
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Revisiting Worst-Case DEA for Composite Indicators
Athanassoglou, Stergios - 2015
, aggregation, and weighting. Nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) methods, originating in the production economics … weighting techniques by focusing on a measure of best-case relative performance. Recently, the standard DEA model for composite … standard DEA for composite indicators and show how it leads to tractable optimization problems. Finally, we compare the two …
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Constructing the Feem Sustainability Index : A Choquet-Integral Application
Cruciani, Caterina; Giove, Silvio; Pinar, Mehmet; … - 2012
This paper presents an application of a multi-attribute aggregation methodology to the construction of a sustainability index. Sustainability is a multi-faceted issue, in which synergies or conflicts may arise among the different components, thus making it a complex concept to which multi...
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Constructing the FEEM Sustainability Index : A Choquet-Integral Application
Cruciani, Caterina - 2013
This paper presents an application of a multi-attribute aggregation methodology to the construction of a sustainability index. Sustainability is a multi-faceted issue, in which synergies or conflicts may arise among the different components, thus making it a complex concept to which multi...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085268
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Neoclassical Growth, Environment and Technological Change : The Environmental Kuznets Curve
Rubio, Santiago J.; García, J.R; Hueso, J.L - 2014
The paper investigates socially optimal patterns of economic growth and environmental quality in a neoclassical growth model with endogenous technological progress. In the model, the environmental quality affects positively not only to utility but also to production. However, cleaner...
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