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Wildfire and Respiratory Illness: Linking Fire Events and Attributes to Health Outcomes
Moeltner, Klaus; Kim, Man-Keun; Yang, Wei; Zhu, Erqian - 2011
Existing studies on the economic impact of wildfire smoke have focused either on single fire events or entire fire seasons without distinguishing between individual occurrences. Neither approach allows for an examination of the marginal effects of fire attributes, such as distance and fuel type,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444312
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THE FAST DECAY PROCESS IN RECREATIONAL DEMAND ACTIVITIES AND THE USE OF ALTERNATIVE COUNT DATA MODELS
Sarker, Rakhal; Surry, Yves R. - 2003
Since the early 1990s, researchers have routinely used count data models (such as the Poisson and negative binomial) to estimate the demand for recreational activities. Along with the success and popularity of count data models in recreational demand analysis during the last decade, a number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446201
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The Fast Decay Process in Recreational Demand Activities and the use of Alternative Count Data Models
Sarker, Rakhal; Surry, Yves R. - 2002
Since the early 1990s, researchers have routinely used count data models (such as the Poisson and negative binomial) to estimate the demand for recreational activities. Along with the success and popularity of count data models in recreational demand analysis during the last decade, a number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446217
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Consumer-based brand equity for Australia as a long haul tourism destination in an emerging market
Pike, Steven D.; Bianchi, Constanza; Kerr, Gayle F.; … - 2010
Purpose: Although the branding literature emerged during the 1940s, research relating to tourism destination branding … tourists in Chile, which reflects the lower priority the South American market has been given by the national tourism office …-branding literature by being one of the first to test the efficacy of a model of consumer-based brand equity for a tourism destination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483521
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Destination brand equity among the host community : a potential source of comparative advantage for DMOs
Pike, Steven; Scott, Noel - 2009
equity (CBBE) for a destination, from the perspective of residents as active participants of local tourism. It is proposed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483559
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009452539
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Advances in strategic network formation : preferences, centrality, and externalities
Buechel, Berno - 2009
positive and negative externalities of link formation. This yields 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009452644
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Contributing or free-riding? Voluntary participation in a public good economy
Taiji Furusawa; Hideo Konishi - Department of Economics, Hitotsubashi University; … - 2011
[This item is a preserved copy. To view the original, visit http://econtheory.org/] We consider a (pure) public goods provision problem with voluntary participation in a quasi-linear economy. We propose a new hybrid solution concept, the free-riding-proof core (FRP-Core), which endogenously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009455289
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An Economic Approach to Climate Change
Bogard, Matt - 2008
situations where choices are incompatible, (often referred to as externalities) and proposing solutions. This presentation … reviews some of the literature and economic theory related to externalities, and focuses on two particular economist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466946