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Class I cultural resource overview for oil shale and tar sands areas in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.

O'Rourke, D.; Kullen, D.; Gierek, L.; Wescott, K.; Greby, M. - Environmental Science Division - 2008

, this report provides recommendations to support planning decisions and the management of cultural resources that could be …

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Assessing a policy grab bag: federal water policy reform.

Weinberg, M. - 2002

This article examines the economic impacts of policy alternatives for addressing allocative inefficiencies among agricultural, urban, and environmental uses of federal water. The Central Valley Project Improvement Act, composed of multiple incentive-based and command-and-control policies, forms...

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Fair allocation and trading of surface water rights under the Riparian Doctrine

Hu, Xuetao - 2009

One key water resource challenge that faces the eastern United States today is how to regulate water withdrawals by offstream users, while preserving the fair sharing philosophy of the common-law Riparian Doctrine. Traditionally, this doctrine requires that riparians (users owning land adjacent...

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Institutions and economic research: a case of location externalities on agricultural resource allocation in the Kat River basin, South Africa

Mbatha, C. Nhlanhla; Antrobus, G.G. - 2008

The Physical Externality Model is used to illustrate the potential limitations of blindly adopting formal models for economic investigation and explanation in varied geographical contexts. As argued by institutional economists for the last hundred years the practice limits the value and...

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A method for assessing the importance of farm level capital investment decisions in the analysis of water reforms

Letcher, R - 2003

Traditional approaches to estimating the potential benefits of water reform, including the introduction of water markets, have relied on short-run models which assume irrigation capital is either fixed or not a constraint on decision making. Other studies have incorporated a long-run decision...

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Portfolio optimization with risk constraints

Gandy, Ralf - 2005

In dieser Arbeit setzen wir uns mit den Auswirkungen von Risikobeschränkungen auf das optimale Verhalten eines Investors auseinander, welcher versucht, den erwarteten Endnutzen zu einem festgelegten Zeitpunkt zu maximieren. Dazu kann er ein vorgegebenes Anfangsvermögen in einem Markt...

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Treasury Management Model with Foreign Exchange Exposure

Volosov, K; Mitra, G; Spagnolo, F; Lucas, C A - 2005

In this paper we formulate a model for foreign exchange exposure management and (international) cash management taking into consideration random fluctuations of exchange rates. A vector error correction model (VECM) is used to predict the random behaviour of the forward as well as spot rates...

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Dynamic Asset (and Liability) Management under Market and Credit Risk

Jobst, N J; Mitra, G; Zenios, S A - 2003

mul-tistage stochastic programming model which focuses on optimum risk decisions. Thesemodels exploit the dynamical …

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Crop decision planning under yield and price uncertainties

Kantanantha, Nantachai - 2007

This research focuses on developing a crop decision planning model to help farmers make decisions for an upcoming crop … outcomes of these uncertain factors. The output from both forecasting models are incorporated into the crop decision planning … decision planning. For yield forecasting, we propose a crop-weather regression model under a semiparametric framework. We use …

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Assessing the Farm Level Impacts of Yield and Revenue Insurance: an Expected Value-Variance Approach

Berg, Ernst - 2002

This paper investigates the farm level impacts of multiple peril yield and revenue insurance in an expected value-variance framework. The analysis is conducted using stochastic simulation jointly with numerical optimisation. Simulation is used to compute the means and variances of revenues as...

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