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Using the hedonic pricing approach, we investigate how the information released on public registries of contaminated and potentially contaminated sites affects nearby commercial and industrial properties in Baltimore, Maryland. We find that commercial and industrial properties are virtually...
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State Voluntary Cleanup Programs (VCPs) were established starting in the 1990s to encourage the environmental remediation and redevelopment of contaminated properties. These programs typically offer liability relief, subsidies and other regulatory incentives in exchange for site cleanup. This...
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reuse of brownfields. Policies that encourage cleanup and re-use of brownfields offer real estate developers reductions in … for regeneration of brownfields. We use conjoint choice experiments - a stated preference approach - to assess the …
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comparison of brownfields and greenfields belong to them. Note that the importance of these themes is given by their close … relationship to sustainable development principles. Generally, location characteristics of brownfields are regarded as worse than … contribute to the discussion on the location characteristics of brownfields, redeveloped sites and greenfields. We chose the …
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Policy has increasingly shifted towards economic incentives and liability attenuation for promoting cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated sites, but little is known about the effectiveness of such policies. An example of such legislation is State Voluntary Cleanup Programs (VCPs), which were...
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Liability rules affect the incentives of intermediaries to disseminate and curate creative works, in particular when works build on the work of predecessors and they are potentially infringing copyright. In an application to the visual arts, we show that appropriation artists borrow images from...
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, but depending on the category of equipment, their involvement in repair, recycling, or reuse actions is different. There …
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Research about the circular economy is dominated by engineers, architects, and social scientists in fields other than economics. The concepts they study can be useful in economic models of policies – to reduce virgin materials extraction, to encourage green design, and to make better use of...
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The EOQ repair and waste disposal problem was studied first by Richter, 1997. A first shop is providing a homogeneous product used by a second shop at a constant demand rate. The first shop is manufacturing new products and it is also repairing products used by a second shop, which are then...
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technological change often leaves little room for the consideration of product reuse. In this paper, we study the design for … reusability and product reuse decisions in the presence of both a known rate of incremental innovations and a stochastic rate of … reusability as well as the amount of reuse the firm ends up doing. Interestingly, the design for reusability decreases much more …
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