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Park, Jiyoung; Park, Changkeun; Nam, Sangjeong - 2006

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The Relationship Between Wildfire and Welfare

Kaval, Pamela; Loomis, John B. - 2005

We used the well-being evaluation method, a technique for measuring individual utility, to study how people in the wildland urban interface of Colorado (USA) felt about their lives before and after two wildfire scenarios. Variables such as age, family size, fire frequency, and house value were...

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Effects of Environmental Regulation on Economic Activity and Pollution in Commercial Agriculture

Sneeringer, Stacy E. - 2009

Research on environmental regulation’s effects on economic activity has largely focused on manufacturing, ignoring one of the major polluters in the U.S. – commercial agriculture. As livestock production has become increasingly mobile, regulation has become an important criterion in firm...

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Modelling Waikato Farm Nitrogen Discharges for Policy Analysis

Ramilan, Thiagarajah; Scrimgeour, Frank G. - 2005

This study describes the development of bio economic models examining the economic and water quality impact of various proposed policy options in the Upper Waikato catchment. In the first phase nitrogen emissions are determined for representative farming systems using the Overseer nutrient...

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Exponential Smoothing for Forecasting and Bayesian Validation of Computer Models

Wang, Shuchun - 2006

Despite their success and widespread usage in industry and business, ES methods have received little attention from the statistical community. We investigate three types of statistical models that have been found to underpin ES methods. They are ARIMA models, state space models with multiple...

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Electricity market price spike forecasting and decision making

Zhao, J.; Dong, Z.Y.; Li, X - 2007

Forecasting price spikes is a timely issue for the deregulated electricity market. Traditional price forecasting techniques show poor performance in handling price spikes, which usually follow a pattern different from the prices under normal market conditions. Therefore, novel approaches are...

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Time series analysis : textbook for students of economics and business administration ; [part 2]

Strohe, Hans Gerhard - 2004

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Temporal aggregation, systematic sampling, and the Hodrick-Prescott filter

Maravall Herrero, Agustín; Río Lopezosa, Ana del - 2007

Maravall and del Río (2001), analized the time aggregation properties of the Hodrick-Prescott (HP) filter, which decomposes a time series into trend and cycle, for the case of annual, quarterly, and monthly data, and showed that aggregation of the disaggregate component cannot be obtained as...

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Market reactions to animal disease: the case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy discoveries in North America

Jin, Yanhong H. (contributor); McCarl, Bruce A. (contributor) - 2008

focus on animal diseaseoutbreaks using data from recent U.S. and Canada bovine spongiform encephalopathy(BSE) cases … a significant structural breakduring the second half of 2003 when two BSE cases were confirmed in North America ….Results showed that U.S. beef prices responded to the disruptions in cattle and beef trade caused by the BSE cases. The ban on beef …

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