Structural Agricultural Land Use Modeling for Spatial Agro‐Environmental Policy Analysis
In: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Band 93, Heft 4, S. 1168-1188
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In: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Band 93, Heft 4, S. 1168-1188
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In: Environmental and resource economics, Band 76, Heft 4, S. 885-900
ISSN: 1573-1502
AbstractIn response to the COVID-19 emergency, many countries have introduced a series of social-distancing measures including lockdowns and businesses' shutdowns, in an attempt to curb the spread of the infection. Accordingly, the pandemic has been generating unprecedented disruption on practically every aspect of society. This paper demonstrates that high-frequency electricity market data can be used to estimate the causal, short-run impacts of COVID-19 on the economy, providing information that is essential for shaping future lockdown policy. Unlike official statistics, which are published with a delay of a few months, our approach permits almost real-time monitoring of the economic impact of the containment policies and the financial stimuli introduced to address the crisis. We illustrate our methodology using daily data for the Italian day-ahead power market. We estimate that the 3 weeks of most severe lockdown reduced the corresponding Italian Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by roughly 30%. Such negative impacts are now progressively declining but, at the end of June 2020, GDP is still about 8.5% lower than it would have been without the outbreak.
In: FEEM Working Paper No. 94.2013
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Working paper
In: Energy economics, Band 126, S. 107006
ISSN: 1873-6181
The paper seeks to contribute to the expanding literature on ecosystem service assessment by considering its integration with economic analyses of such services. Focussing upon analyses for future orientated policy and decision making, we initially consider a single period during which ecological stocks are maintained at sustainable levels. The flow of ecosystems services and their contribution to welfare bearing goods is considered and methods for valuing resultant benefits are reviewed and illustrated via a case study of land use change. We then broaden our time horizon to discuss the treatment of future costs and benefits. Finally we relax our sustainability assumption and consider economic approaches to the incorporation of depleting ecological assets with a particular focus upon stocks which exhibit thresholds below which restoration is compromised.
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In: Environmental management: an international journal for decision makers, scientists, and environmental auditors, Band 44, Heft 2, S. 256-267
ISSN: 1432-1009
In: Environmental and resource economics, Band 48, Heft 2, S. 177-218
ISSN: 1573-1502
In: Environmental and resource economics, Band 57, Heft 2, S. 215-231
ISSN: 1573-1502
In: Environmental and resource economics, Band 57, Heft 2, S. 197-214
ISSN: 1573-1502
In: Environmental and resource economics, Band 57, Heft 2, S. 273-297
ISSN: 1573-1502