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Landfills – territorial issues of cities from North-East Region, Romania

Mihai, Florin-Constantin; Ichim, Pavel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Landfilling prevails in waste management options in Romania like others new EU members, being contrary to the concept of waste hierarchy promoted in recent years by EC. Waste disposal is done usually in non-compliant landfills and Government established a program to close these sites. This paper...

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Deconvoluting preferences and errors: a model for binomial panel data

Fosgerau, Mogens; Nielsen, Søren Feodor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Let U be an unobserved random variable with compact support and let e_t be unobserved i.i.d. random errors also with compact support. Observe the random variables V_t, X_t, and Y_t = 1{U +d X_t+e_t V_t}, t = T, where d is an unknown parameter. This type of model is relevant for many stated...

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An approach to the estimation of the distribution of marginal valuations from discrete choice data

Fosgerau, Mogens; Hjort, Katrine; Vincent Lyk-Jensen, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Models such as the mixed logit are often used to measure the distribution of the marginal value of a good based on discrete choice panel data. There are however serious specification and identification issues that are rarely addressed. The consequences for results may be dramatic. This paper...

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A Theoretical Foundation for Count Data Models

Hellerstein, Daniel; Mendelsohn, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993

The paper develops a theoretical foundation for using count data models in travel cost analysis. Two micro models are developed: a restricted choice model and a repeated discrete choice model. We show that both models lead to identical welfare measures.

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Impact Evaluation of Multiple Overlapping Programs using Difference-in-differences with Matching

Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Difference-in-differences with matching is a popular method in impact evaluation. Traditional impact evaluation methods … including difference-in-differences with matching often deal with impact measurement of a single binary program. Imbens (1999 …) and Lechner (2001) extend the matching method to the case of multiple mutually exclusive programs. Frölich (2002 …

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Centralization of Decentralized Governance - Evidence from West Bengal Panchayat

Misra, Jaydev - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Democratic decentralization in the state of West Bengal, of its own, are not producing systems that are more effective or more accountable to local needs and interests. The formal mechanisms matter less than the informal institutions that underpin local political economies. And the understanding...

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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses

NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...

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Sistema inter-regional sul-restante do Brasil: geração de renda e interdependência regional

Filho, Sesso; Antonio, Umberto; Guilhoto, Joaquim José … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The objective of this research was to examine the capacity of sectors to generate income of the economy and the local and inter-regional impacts. For this purpose we built na input-output system with four regions, Paraná, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul and the Rest of Brazil. The main...

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How cities develop: Affinity Factor Model for forecasting city development and dispersion

Deodhar, Rahul Prakash - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper discusses the principles that determine firstly how cities evolve over seven phases in what I call the Affinity Factor model. Secondly, we see how Affinity Factor model may help understand how development spreads or distributes within the city. We observe how these principles impact...

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Regional Policy: An Alternative Approach

Alexiadis, Stilianos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The regional policy problem is often conceived as a trade-off between aggregate efficiency and interregional equity. A policy to allocate investment across regions frequently causes a contradiction in the aims of regional policy, in the sense that it might lead to high rates of aggregate growth...

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