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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"hedonic valuation"”.
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Topics in Hedonic Valuation
… values are not directly apparent. As a result, Hedonic methods have been employed as a tool to recover household Marginal Willingness To Pay (MWTP) for these goods to inform policy-making given constrained public resources. This thesis consists of three chapters tied to the Hedonic valuation of …
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The hedonic valuation of South African wine brands
… brands. Deploying blind and sighted versions of hedonic quality it defines (1) ‘functional’ wine brands as those with consistently higher levels of intrinsic quality as proxied by their blind tasting scores, and (2) placebo-type ‘symbolic’ wine brands as those with statistically significant …
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Hedonic Valuation of Environmental Amenities and Issues of Model Selection
… of the model with the standard two-step hedonic model reveals that the benefit estimates are consistently lower in the case of the former.
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Hedonic Valuation of Forested Riparian Buffers Along Rivers in Northwestern North Carolina
… Watauga River. House sales form the basis of the hedonic models used to value these environmental characteristics. Homes that border a river sell for at least $28,000 more than otherwise similar homes that do not border a river. Riparian area tree coverage positively impacts river-bordering house …
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Three approaches to measuring natural resource scarcity : theory and application to groundwater
… a refinement of revealed preference methods of valuation, by combining the hedonic and travel cost methods, and applies the refined model to derive the willingness to pay for groundwater quality. It is claimed t hat hedonic valuation of quality attributes can be misleading when the exogeneity …
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Three essays on environmental valuation: the social value of carbon storage in wetlands, the impact of wind turbines on home prices, and the effect of flood risk on home prices
… may lead to reduced property prices. Using a hedonic valuation approach and advanced GIS techniques, this study finds no significant impact of the UD Wind Turbine on the majority of local property prices, with the exception of properties that are located closest to the turbine and are in full …
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Essays on valuing non-market goods in imperfectly competitive markets
… of Feenstra (1995) and adapts the traditional hedonic valuation method to account for imperfect competition in the market. The theoretical technique is discussed and employed against current approaches to show its feasibility in measuring the true value of goods which are marked up when firms …
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Neuropharmacological Mechanisms Underlying Incentive Salience and Stress
… processing as opposed to alterations in hedonic valuation of rewards. A growing body of evidence points to a role for the mesolimbic dopamine (DA) system in the etiology of motivational deficits. However, the neurobiological mechanisms underlying the manifestation of anhedonic behavior …
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The Amenity Value of Trees: a Meta-analysis of Hedonic, Property-value Studies
… of climate induced tree migration. Numerous hedonic property value studies have estimated the implicit price of tree amenities associated with residential properties. Quantitative analysis of the results from multiple studies valuing trees can identify if the relationship between implicit …