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Tchetchik, Anat; Fleischer, Aliza; Finkelshtain, Israel. |
This paper applies a discrete-choice framework with product differentiation to model the rural tourism industry in Israel and to jointly estimate the effect of lodging and farm characteristics on consumer preferences and firms' costs. The model accounts for heterogeneity in tastes and technologies and allows for unobservable product characteristics. We find evidence for technological synergy in joint production of farming and rural hospitality, but none in the demand. The differentiation in the industry is vast and is the major contributor to the price-cost margin, which averages 62%. An additional minor cause are government regulations, which restrict supply. Simulation results demonstrate the growth potential of the industry and show that the government... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Rural tourism; Differentiated goods; Oligopoly markup; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Q10; L11; L83. |
Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7178 |
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Feinerman, Eli; Fleischer, Aliza; Simhon, Avi. |
This study examines the optimal allocation of funds between national and urban parks. Since travel costs to national parks are significantly higher than to urban parks, poor households tend to visit the latter more frequently, whereas rich households favor the former. Therefore, allocating public funds to improving the quality of national parks at the expense of urban parks disproportionately benefits high income households. By developing a theoretical model and implementing it using Israeli data, findings indicate all households, except for the richest decile, prefer that the park authority divert a larger proportion of its budget from national to urban parks. |
Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Budget allocation; Income distribution; National parks; Urban parks; Public Economics. |
Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31105 |
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Kaminski, Jonathan; Kan, Iddo; Fleischer, Aliza. |
This article proposes a proactive approach for analyzing agricultural adaptation to climate change based on a structural land-use model wherein farmers maximize profit by allocating their land between crop-technology bundles. The profitability of the bundles is a function of four technological attributes via which climate variables‟ effect is channeled: yield potential; input requirements; yields' sensitivity to input use; and farm-level management costs. Proactive adaptation measures are derived by identifying the technological attributes via which climate variables reduce overall agricultural profitability, despite adaptation by land reallocation among bundles. By applying the model to Israel, we find that long-term losses stem from yield potential... |
Tipo: Article |
Palavras-chave: Adaptation; Agricultural land use; Climate change; Crop-technology bundles; Land Economics/Use. |
Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/120076 |
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