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Education, Innovation, and Growth - Critical Appraisal and Cliometric Analyses with Implications for Present Economic Policy
Müller, Normann - 2009
'.The first project reveals that the prevailing notion of education externalities is misleading and therefore empirical … externalities of education according to Lucas (1988) are likely to be internalized on the labor market. Education is recognized as a … education. Further, by differentiating 'education' and 'knowledge' it becomes obvious that growth externalities according to …
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Context-Dependent Biodiversity Conservation Management Regimes
Gjertsen, Heidi; Behr, Diji Chandrasekharan - 2000
'internalize' externalities. Positive externalities of natural resource conservation accrue at the local, national and global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468344
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Guiding preventative wildland fire mitigation policy and decisions with an economic modeling system.
Stockmann, Keith; Burchfield, James; Calkin, Dave; … - 2010
The protection of private residences from wildland fire produces high levels of cost and safety risk to firefighters, especially with the expanding ex-urban settlement pattern in the wildland urban interface (WUI). Economic information on probable structure losses can help guide efficient...
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Land-use change and carbon sinks: Econometric estimation of the carbon sequestration supply function.
Lubowski, Ruben N.; Plantinga, Andrew J.; Stavins, Robert N. - 2006
If the United States chooses to implement a greenhouse gas reduction program, it would be necessary to decide whether to include carbon sequestration policies - - -such as those that promote forestation and discourage deforestation - - -as part of the domestic portfolio of compliance activities....
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Financial considerations of policy options to enhance biomass utilization for reducing wildfire hazards.
Becker, Dennis R.; Larson, Debra; Lowell, Eini C. - 2009
The Harvest Cost-Revenue Estimator, a financial model, was used to examine the cost sensitivity of forest biomass harvesting scenarios to targeted policies designed to stimulate wildfire hazardous fuel reduction projects. The policies selected represent actual policies enacted by federal and...
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Historical disturbance regimes as a reference for forest policy in a multiowner province: a simulation experiment.
Thompson, J.R.; Johnson, K.N.; Lennette, M.; Spies, T.A.; … - 2006
Using a landscape simulation model, we examined ecological and economic implications of forest policies designed to emulate the historical fire regime across the 2 x 10⁶ ha Oregon Coast Range. Simulated policies included two variants of the current policy and three policies reflecting aspects...
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Four Essays on Human Capital Externalities
Heuermann, Daniel Frederik - 2009
productivity. It takes the notion of local human capital externalities as its core theoretical concept, which contends that … respect to Germany, the notion of local human capital externalities is of potential relevance since average levels of … regional productivity can be assigned to local human capital externalities and sheds light on the microeconomic mechanisms …
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Eigenverantwortliche Individuen und Pro-Aktive Unternehmen
Heblich, Stephan - 2007
Die Arbeit setzt sich aus acht Kapiteln zusammen, die jeweils auf eigenst?ndigen Beitr?gen basieren. Die Beitr?ge insgesamt besch?ftigen sich mit der Fragestellung, wie der Nationalstaat, die Individuen und die Unternehmen gemeinsam aktuellen wirtschafts- und sozialpolitischen Herausforderungen...
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14.452 Economic Growth, Fall 2008
Acemoglu, Daron - 2008
The basic machines of macroeconomics. Ramsey, Solow, Samuelson-Diamond, RBCs, ISLM, Mundell-Fleming, Fischer-Taylor. How they work, what shortcuts they take, and how they can be used. Half-term subject. From the course home page: Course Description This half semester class presents an...
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Under-connected and over-connected networks
Buechel, Berno; Hellmann, Tim - 2008
. We approach this gap by analyzing the role of positive and negative externalities of link formation. We find general … results that relate situations of positive externalities with stable networks that cannot be "too dense" in a well …-defined sense, while situations with negative externalities, tend to induce "too dense" networks. …
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