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Reliability of benefit value transfers from contingent valuation data with forest-specific attributes

Scarpa, Riccardo; Hutchinson, George W.; Chilton, Sue M. - 2000

We investigate the reliability of transferring benefit estimates of forest recreation obtained from discrete choice CV data and conditional on forest-specific attributes. The transfer reliability is checked against the forest-specific estimates of mean and median willingness to pay. We report...

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Dynamic labour demand with lumpy and kinked adjustment costs

Rota, Paola - 2001

We analyse the dynamics of firms' employment decisions which underlie lumpy and kinked adjustment costs. We consider a dynamic structural model in which, in each period, firms face a choice of whether to vary the labour input or to postpone the adjustment to the future. By exploiting the first...

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Beyond national institutions: Labour taxes and regional unemployment in Italy

Brunello, Giorgio; Lupi, Claudio; Ordine, Patrizia; … - 2001

By focusing on the Italian experience, we ask whether the relationship between labour taxes and unemployment varies … stronger in the highly industrialised North than in the underdeveloped South, where unemployment is much higher. An important … source of variation in the regional responsiveness of unemployment originates from the fact that regional gross wages in the …

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Absolute risk aversion and the returns to education

Brunello, Giorgio - 2001

Individual absolute risk aversion is measured for a sample of 1373 male household heads, using the 1995 wave of the …

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On the complementary between education and training in Europe

Brunello, Giorgio - 2001

This paper is an empirical investigation of the complementarity between education and training in 13 European countries, based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). After confirming the standard result that training incidence is higher among individuals with more education, I find...

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A note on testing for environmental Kuznets curves with panel data

Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Vollebergh, Herman R. J. - 2001

This paper casts doubt on empirical results based on panel estimations of an "inverted-U" relationship between per capita GDP and pollution. Using a new data set for OECD countries on carbon dioxide emissions for the period 1960-1997, we find that the crucial assumption of homogeneity across...

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Investigating the shape of the EKC: A nonparametric approach

Baiocchi, Giovanni; DiFalco, Salvatore - 2001

recommendations. The flexible nature of nonparametric estimation allows us to develop a nonparametric test in the spirit of Silverman …

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Desperately seeking (environmental) Kuznets: A new look at the evidence

Galeotti, Marzio; Lanza, Alessandro; Pauli, Francesco - 2001

The number of studies seeking to empirically characterize the reduced-form relationship between a country economic growth and the quantity of pollutants produced in the process has recently increased significantly. In several cases researchers have found evidence pointing to an inverted-U...

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Privatisation around the world: New evidence from panel data

Bortolotti, Bernardo; Fantini, Marcella; Siniscalco, … - 2001

This paper presents new evidence about privatisation processes and their determinants from a panel of 34 countries over the 1977-99 period. The empirical analysis shows that privatisation takes place typically in wealthy and democratic countries, endowed with deep and liquid stock markets, and...

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Is the irrigation water demand really convex?

Bontemps, Christophe; Couture, Stéphane; Favard, Pascal - 2001

to generate the data allowing the estimation of irrigation water demand by a nonparametric procedure. An application …, where water is no more an essential input and is not yet a risk reducing input, the demand is elastic. But, we find a third …, non-intuitive, area for larger quantities where the water is a risk reducing input and the demand becomes inelastic again …

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