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Measuring externalities in program evaluation
Janssens, Wendy - 2006
. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the …
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From homo-economicus to homo-virtus : a system-theoretic model for raising moral self-awareness
Friedland, Julian; Cole, Benjamin M. - In: Journal of business ethics : JOBE 155 (2019) 1, pp. 191-205
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Estimating the skill bias in agglomeration externalities and social returns to education : evidence from Dutch matched worker-firm micro-data
Groot, Stefan P. T.; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2014
relationship between agglomeration externalities and the level of education. While the positive relationship between economic … relationship between density and productivity for workers with different types of education. Apart from estimating the impact of … aggregate density, we also estimate whether the composition of the local labor market in terms of education is related to the …
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General geographical economics model with congestion
Marrewijk, Charles van - 2005
We derive and discuss a general, but simple geographical economics model with congestion, allowing us to explain the economic viability of small and large locations. The model generalizes some previous work and lends itself to analyzing the impact of public policy in terms of infrastructure...
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Capacity choice of dams under rivalry use and externalities
Houba, Harold; Kim Hang Pham Do; Zhu, Xueqin - 2014
This paper studies the relation between optimal dam capacity and water management under rivalry uses and externalities …-linear building cost of dam capacity and externalities in a welfare optimization model. We obtain the optimal dam capacity for multi …
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The implementation of marginal external cost pricing in road transport
Verhoef, Erik T. - 1998
This paper discusses a number of issues that will become increasingly important nowthat the concept of marginal external cost pricing becomes more likely to be implementedas a policy strategy in transport in reality. The first part of the paper deals with thelong-run efficiency of marginal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011299976
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Competing recombinant technologies for environmental innovation
Zeppini, Paolo; Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2010
This article presents a model of sequential decisions about investments in environmentally dirty and clean technologies, which extends the path-dependence framework of Arthur (1989). This allows us to evaluate if and how an economy locked into a dirty technology can be unlocked and move towards...
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The adoption of energy efficiency enhancing technologies
Verhoef, Erik T.; Nijkamp, Peter - 1997
This paper analyses the adoption of energy-efficiency enhancing technologies by heterogeneous firms. The fact that energy use does not only cause external environmental costs through pollution, but also directly affects the profitability of the firm and hence its behaviour on input and output...
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Renewable energy and negative externalities : the effect of wind turbines on house prices
Dröes, Martijn I.; Koster, Hans - 2014
In many countries, wind turbines are constructed as part of a strategy to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. In this paper, we measure the external effect of wind turbines on the transaction prices of nearby houses. A unique house price dataset covering the period 1985-2011 is used, including...
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Degree centrality, von Neumann-Morgenstern expected utility and externalities in networks
Brink, René van den; Rusinowska, Agnieszka - 2023
numbers of neighbours) of the positions in a network. Although this allows for externalities, in the sense that the … preferences of a position might depend on the way how other positions are connected, these externalities can be taken into account …
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