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Reducing Petroleum Consumption from Transportation
Knittel, Christopher R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The United States consumed more petroleum-based liquid fuel per capita than any other OECD-high-income country - 30 percent more than the second-highest country (Canada) and 40 percent more than the third-highest (Luxemburg). This paper examines the main channels through which reductions in U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401240
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Property Rights, Land Conflict and Tenancy in Brazil
Alston, Lee J.; Mueller, Bernardo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Tenancy has been a means for labor to advance their socio-economic condition in agriculture yet in Brazil and Latin …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008631684
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What Drives Land-Use Change in the United States? A National Analysis of Landowner Decisions
Stavins, Robert Norman; Lubowski, Ruben N.; Plantinga, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Land-use changes involve important economic and environmental effects with implications for international trade, global climate change, wildlife, and other policy issues. We use an econometric model to identify factors driving land-use change in the United States between 1982 and 1997. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084904
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Institutional Path Dependence in Climate Adaptation: Coman's "Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation"
Libecap, Gary D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Katharine Coman's "Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation," published in March 1911 in the first issue of the American … and irrigation districts that emerged in the American West in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in response to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534513
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Water Markets in the West: Prices, Trading, and Contractual Forms
Libecap, Gary D.; Brewer, Jedidiah; Glennon, Robert; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
of water transfers across 12 western states from 1987-2005. We find that prices are higher for agriculture …-to-urban trades versus within-agriculture trades, in part, reflecting the differences in marginal values between the two uses. Prices … for urban use are also growing relative to agricultural use. Markets are responding in that the number of agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778036
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Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Forest Protection: The Transaction Costs of REDD
Alston, Lee J.; Andersson, Krister - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Understanding and minimizing the transaction costs of policy implementation are critical for reducing tropical forest losses. As the international community prepares to launch REDD+, a global initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tropical deforestation, policymakers need to pay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836719
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Race, Ethnicity, and Discriminatory Zoning
Walsh, Randall Phillip; Shertzer, Allison; Twinam, Tate - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Zoning has been cited as a discriminatory policy tool by critics, who argue that ordinances are used to deter the entry of minority residents into majority neighborhoods through density restrictions (exclusionary zoning) and locate manufacturing activity in minority neighborhoods (environmental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951206
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Causes and Consequences of the Export Enhancement Program for Wheat
Goldberg, Pinelopi; Knetter, Michael M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1995
This paper uses regression analysis to study the causes and impacts of the Export Enhancement Program for wheat. We find that the overwhelming causes of the EEP, faltering export markets and swelling government stocks are primarily attributable to the overvaluation of the dollar in the 1980s,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830018
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Commodity Price Volatility in the Biofuel Era: An Examination of the Linkage Between Energy and Agricultural Markets
Hertel, Thomas Warren; Beckman, Jayson - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
increases in biofuel production have altered the agriculture-energy relationship in a fundamental way. This increase has drawn …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855524
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Measuring the Economic Effect of Global Warming on Viticulture Using Auction, Retail, and Wholesale Prices
Ashenfelter, Orley; Storchmann, Karl - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
In this paper we measure the effect of year to year changes in the weather on wine prices and winery revenue in the Mosel Valley in Germany in order to determine the effect that climate change is likely to have on the income of wine growers. A novel aspect of our analysis is that we compare the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008631094