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A Critical Analysis of the Feasibility and Usefulness of Using Shadow Prices in Accounting Measurement
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Benefit-cost analysis as applied to insect pest control programs
… are: consumer's surplus, social discount rate, shadow prices, characteristics of social costs, characteristics of social benefits, external effects, and risk and uncertainty. Chapters three and four discuss, respectively, the identification and measurement of social costs and benefits. Chapter …
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A hierarchical decision-making approach to resource management and valuation: The case of conjunctive water use
… taxes derived from the socially optimum shadow prices of shared resources may result in serious deviations between users' response and the socially optimal resource use when the users' profit motive is not shared by the social planner and the resultant objectives differ structurally or …
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China's Paper Industry: Growth and Environmental Policy during Economic Reform
… as efficiency performance; the other derives shadow prices for pollutants for the same group of mills, based on a distance function model, to examine the efficiency performance of current pollution control policy and the degree of regional variation in the policy enforcement. The basic …
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Transit productivity analysis in heterogeneous conditions using data envelopment analysis with an application to rail transit
… the degree of flexibility to changes in the shadow prices of the inputs, and a method to prioritize investment for expansion of operations. Its indirect contribution to transit operations planning consists of checking the consistency and feasibility of new rail projects. Moreover, this …
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Dominance Based Measurement of Environmental Performance and Productive Efficiency of Manufacturing
… to dispose of pollution) or by assigning shadow prices to pollution outputs. However, the frontier along with the required technological assumptions (such as convexity) needed for a definition of a frontier may be replaced with the concept of pair-wise dominance. With data from a …
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Industrial Management Models with Emphasis on Construction Waste
… revenues to waste by the employment of so-called shadow prices. The modified, mainly cost assessment oriented, methods are evaluated from a business economics perspective in relation to waste management. The effort in this work represents a shift of views within the field of waste management. This …
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Sustainability and economic policy analysis
… followed by rapidly increasing resource prices and scarcity. Chapter II show that the incompleteness of intergenerational insurance markets constitutes a market failure that leads to inefficient intergenerational investment decisions. Risks that increase from generation to generation …
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Capitalization of Environmental Amenities and Wildfire in Private Home Values of the Wildland Urban Interface of Northwest Montana, USA
… being able to see a burned area reduced sale prices by 3.1%. This was around an $8,060 reduction. Canopy cover is another integral component of amenity value to homebuyers wherein adding an additional hectare which is in medium canopy cover within 250 meters of the home increased property …
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Capitalization of Environmental Amenities and Wildfire in Private Home Values of the Wildland Urban Interface of Northwest Montana, USA
… being able to see a burned area reduced sale prices by 3.1%. This was around an $8,060 reduction. Canopy cover is another integral component of amenity value to homebuyers wherein adding an additional hectare which is in medium canopy cover within 250 meters of the home increased property …
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The influence of specific trader groups on price discovery in the live cattle futures market
… deemed most relevant for forecasting future prices and then make use of a translating mechanism to condense this information into a price expectation. A trader's price expectation taken along with his/her willingness to act on that expectation results in a trading behavior. It is the …
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Cost-benefit analysis and its application to a proposed freezing works in Hawke's Bay
… Finally the project is evaluated at market prices as well as at shadow prices (Chapter 12), and a brief sensitivity analysis is carried out. The results of the analysis suggest that the project is highly beneficial to the nation and its social net returns are considerably higher than that of …
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Essays on Bank Spatial Competition, Stability and Resolution
… focus is on bank performance, regional finance, shadow prices of equity capital, and cost efficiency. The first chapter presents a new competition measure based on two spatial variables: physical distances and Thiessen polygon market boundaries. The results show that spatial competition …
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Methods for Evaluating Agricultural Enterprises in the Framework of Uncertainty Facing Tobacco Producing Regions of Virginia
… Marketing of agricultural products that have prices that fluctuate seasonally is feasible only within the period of time called the "market window". When average historical prices were above total costs, a market window was identified. The optimal enterprise mix was addressed by LP from a …
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Essays on the Use of Duality, Robust Empirical Methods, Panel Treatments, and Model Averaging with Applications to Housing Price Index Construction and World Productivity Growth
… by both the production technology and market prices. Chapter 2 utilizes the duality between the production maximization problem and cost minimization problem to uncover the shadow prices of inputs, and constructs corresponding price indexes for further analysis. This chapter is motivated by …
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Three papers in regional economics: energy productivity convergence, water resource planning, and workforce occupation-industry dynamics
… costs of preserving streamflow through various ""shadow prices"" and also the different capacity of restoring streamflow. It discusses the shapes of the Pareto frontier, the sensitivity of the pumping boundary constraints, and the sensitivity of return flow coefficients. It concludes that the …