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| Parcell, Joseph L.; Westhoff, Patrick C.. |
| This study summarizes research on farm-, local-, regional-, and macro-level economic effects of ethanol production. Given current production levels, the ethanol production industry annually employees approximately 3,500 workers, pays out nearly $132 million in worker salaries, generates over $110 million in local taxes, and takes in some $2 billion in government incentive payments. Projections for a 60 million gallon per year ethanol plant indicate an annual increase in corn usage of 21 million bushels, a one-time capitalization of $75 million, an increase in local corn prices between $0.06/bushel and $0.12/bushel, a 54 direct and 210 indirect jobs created, and increase in local tax revenues of $1.2 million, a decrease in federal commodity program... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Biofuel; Ethanol; Local economy; Government subsidies; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; O13; Q40; Q42; R10. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43774 |
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| Sanchirico, James N.; Wilen, James E.. |
| We utilize a spatial bioeconomic model to investigate the impacts of creating reserves on limited-entry fisheries. We find that reserve creation can produce win-win situations where aggregate biomass and the common license (lease) price increase. These situations arise in biological systems where dispersal processes are prevalent and the fishery prior to reserve creation is operating at effort levels in a neighborhood of open-access levels. We also illustrate that using strictly biological criteria for siting reserves (e.g., setting aside the most biological productive areas) will likely induce the most vociferous objections from the fishing industry. In general, we find that the dispersal rate and the degree the patches are connected play a significant... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Fisheries; Limited-entry; Marine reserves; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; Q22; R10. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10487 |
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| Buonanno, Paolo; Galizzi, Matteo M.. |
| We explore the relationship between litigation rates and the number of lawyers, in a typical supplier-induced demand (SID) frame. Drawing on an original panel dataset for the 169 Italian courts of justice between 2000 and 2007, we first document that the number of lawyers is positively correlated with different measures of litigation rate. Then, using an instrumental variables strategy we find that a 10 percent increase of lawyers over population is associated with an increase between 1.6 to 6 percent in civil litigation rates. Thus, our empirical analysis supports the SID hypothesis for the Italian lawyers: following an increase in their relative number, lawyers may exploit their informational advantage to induce clients to access to courts even when... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Lawyers; Litigiosity; Causality; Labor and Human Capital; F22; J15; K42; R10. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/90903 |
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| Mundler, Patrick; Jauneau, Jean-Claude; Guermonprez, Bruno; Pluvinage, Jean. |
| A survey of more than 150 small dairy farms and local economic, professional and political stakeholders was conducted in six regions of France. It revealed five types of farm strategy in relation to the farm’s size, agricultural diversification, importance of direct selling, and farm and household incomes. A “resource-based” approach shows that the sustainability of small farms is linked to economic, social and human resources. In this way the study shows the important part played by the household’s income and the farmer’s integration in the social fabric. This approach is complemented by an institutional approach: The sustainability of a small farm depends on local economic, professional and political institutions and an important role is played by the... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Small dairy farms; Sustainability; Resources; Territorial institutions; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Q12; Q18; R10; R58. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/52820 |
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| Banzhaf, H. Spencer. |
| This paper illustrates how public goods may be incorporated into a cost-of-living index. When public goods are weak complements to a market good, quality-adjusted prices for the market good capture all the welfare information required. They are also consistent with a Laspeyres index that maintains the bound on a true cost-of-living index. The paper recovers this information from a discrete-choice model, using a simulation routine to solve for the appropriate price adjustments. These concepts are applied to the case of housing, education, crime, and air quality in Los Angeles for 1989 to 1994. Over a period of time when they are improving, incorporating pubic goods into the index lowers the estimated change in the cost of living by 0.5 to 2.6 percentage... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Air quality; Discrete choice models; Green accounting; Nonmarket valuation; Price index; Public Economics; C51; D12; D60; E31; H40; R10. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10833 |
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| Warziniack, Travis. |
| This article examines the provision of public goods in an urban area and the effect voting has on the level and location of amenities throughout a city. It is particularly appropriate for small communities that must finance economic development projects with limited funds. The work presented is a result of working with rural communities throughout America that have seen their historic downtowns deteriorate as big box retail grows on the urban fringe. I find this shift in community development may be a result of the way local economic development is financed and projects are decided upon. Specifically, I find significant welfare losses associated with voting for a public good in space. Small public projects that would lead to community-wide welfare... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Open space; Spatial economics; Referendum; Voting; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Land Economics/Use; Political Economy; R10; R14. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/60956 |
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| Ambrey, Christopher L.; Fleming, Christopher M.. |
| The narrative of the twentieth century is dominated by three key trends: population growth, economic growth and urbanisation. Moreover, these trends are expected to continue well into the twenty-first century. Australia has not been immune to these trends. Australia’s population is projected to increase by 65% to over 35 million by 2049, and be accompanied by an average growth in per-capita Gross Domestic Product of 1.5% per annum. Much of this population and economic growth will be concentrated in an already highly urbanised environment. As a consequence, the natural environment in which the majority of Australians live is likely to undergo rapid change. It is useful therefore, to better understand our relationship with this environment. Using data from... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; C21; I31; R10. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100548 |
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| Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc. |
| In this paper we find evidence that the new economic geography approach is able to describe and explain the spatial characteristics of an economy, in our case the German economy. Using German district data we estimate the structural parameters of a new economic geography model as developed by Helpman (1998) and Hanson (1998) and we find confirmation for a spatial wage structure. The advantage of the Helpman- Hanson model is that it incorporates the fact that agglomeration of economic activity increases the prices of local (non-tradable) services, like housing. This model thereby provides an intuitively appealing spreading force that allows for less extreme agglomeration patterns than predicted by the bulk of new economic geography models. Based on... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Economic geography; Empirical estimation; Germany; Labor and Human Capital; Political Economy; R10; R12; R23. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/26183 |
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| Santos, Venussia Eliane dos; Gomes, Marilia Fernandes Maciel; Braga, Marcelo Jose; Silveira, Suely de Fatima Ramos. |
| The objective of this work is to analyze coffee production and processing in the economic structure of Minas Gerais, to determine its importance and its linkages to the structure of the State economy, by using input-output matrix. Therefore, it is determined linkages indexes of Rasmussen-Hirschman, boarding fields, pure linkage index (GHS) and regional multipliers of product, income and employment. These applications are complementary to the identification of key sectors of the economy. The 1995 input-output matrix was used. Linkages indexes of Rasmussen-Hirschman and the analysis of the influence field pointed out that coffee production presents multiplying indicators above those of the economy, presenting higher backward and forward linkages. The coffee... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Coffee; Minas Gerais; Input-output model; Key sectors; Agribusiness; R10. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/60805 |
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| Massiani, Jerome; Rosato, Paolo. |
| In many developed countries, abandoned (derelict or underused) industrial areas often occupy important parts of the cities. This raises issues about the possibilities of reusing these areas as well as on the conservation of industrial heritage they often entail. Conjoint Analysis (CA) can shed light on these issues as it can elicit the preferences of inhabitants for different scenarios of reuse. So far, only a limited number of applications of CA have been made on this topic. In this article, we present the results of a CA experiment on the reuse of a large, mainly abandoned, port area in Trieste (Italy) featuring buildings with some historical and industrial heritage value. Three hundred computer assisted interviews have been made on a representative... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Land Use; Port; Trieste; Conjoint Analysis; Land Economics/Use; Community/Rural/Urban Development; H43; R52; R10. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44224 |
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| Sanchirico, James N.; Wilen, James E.. |
| This paper employs a spatial and intertemporal model of renewable resource exploitation to investigate the effects of marine reserve creation. The model combines the H. S. Gordon/Vernon Smith hypothesis of a rent dissipation process with Ricardian notions that resources are exploited across space in a pattern dependent upon relative profitabilities. The metapopulation model employed here incorporates modern biological ideas that stress patch heterogeneity, linkages, and dispersal processes between patches. The spatial bioeconomic model is then used to simulate the effects of reserve creation under various ecological structures. We find, under certain parameter configurations and ecological linkages, that there is potential for a "double-dividend" where... |
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Palavras-chave: Marine reserves; Spatial and intertemporal modeling; Bioeconomics; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; C62; Q22; R10. |
| Ano: 1998 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10715 |
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