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Accounting for Negative, Zero and Positive Willingness to Pay for Landscape Change in a National Park [PDF]

, 2008
"In contingent valuation, despite the fact that many externalities manifest themselves as costs to some and benefits to others, most studies restrict willingness to pay to being non-negative.
Kristrom, Bengt, Watson, F., Sergio Colombo, Bengt Kriström, Kriström, B., Hanley, Nicholas, Hanley, N., Hanley, Nick, Fiona Watson, Nick Hanley, Colombo, Sergio, Colombo, S., Watson, Fiona, Kriström, Bengt,, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet.   +14 more
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Hemp Cultivation and Crop Diversification: Implications for Ecosystem Services in Kentucky

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the ecosystem benefits of expanding hemp cultivation by assessing its impact on crop diversity. Using scenario‐based simulations and fixed‐effect panel regressions with county‐level data in Kentucky, we find that increased hemp acreage tends to enhance crop diversity, improving water quality and bird diversity.
Yunsun Park, Seong D. Yun, Brandy E. Phipps, Tyler Mark, Craig Schluttenhofer   +4 more
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Keeping Pace or Falling Behind? The Depth of Latin American Trade Agreements

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether Latin American countries are keeping pace with global trends in trade agreement depth or falling behind. Using 681 agreements (1970–2019), we develop the Depth Index of Trade Agreements (DITA) to weight provisions endogenously through factor analysis based on co‐occurrence patterns.
Raphael Gomes da Silva, Fernanda Aparecida Silva, Lia Nogueira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE NECESSITY TO CHANGE THE APPROACH TO THE TEACHING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TAUGHT AS A SECOND FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN SLOVAK SCHOOLS

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Currently, most Slovak elementary and secondary schools teach English as the first foreign language and German, French, Spanish, Italian, or Russian as the second foreign language.
ŠUKOLOVÁ, Lucia, University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia, Magdaléna PATÉ   +2 more
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Department of Economics Action Plan

, 2013
Department of Economics Action Plan for Academic Program ReviewDepartment of Economics, Action Plan, Academic Program ReviewDepartment of Economics, Action Plan, Academic Program ...
Economics, Department of Economics, Academic Program Review, APR   +2 more
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Chinese Trade Competition and Rural Mexican Migration

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001 reshaped global trade, reducing U.S. demand for Mexican manufactured goods and weakening Mexico's manufacturing employment. This study estimates how this trade‐induced decline affected migration and employment decisions among rural Mexicans.
Zachariah Rutledge, Joaquin Mayorga
wiley   +1 more source

Temporary Programs, Lasting Questions: Ad Hoc Assistance in the U.S. Farm Safety Net

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Large ad hoc assistance programs have returned to U.S. farm policy since 2017, operating alongside a more developed safety net built around federally subsidized crop insurance, Title I commodity programs, and standing disaster assistance. This paper reviews the renewed use of ad hoc assistance, documents its recent scale using USDA data, and ...
Alejandro Plastina, Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn   +1 more
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Islamic economics and economics as a system of power

Islamic economics emerged in the post-colonial period as a novel and independent approach to political and economic discourse. It sought an ideal economic system that could encompass interest-free commercial relations, moral behavioral norms that ...
Levent, Adem, Afacan, Fahriye
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Heterodox Economics: A Common Challenge to Mainstream Economics? [PDF]

, 2007
First paragraph: Heterodox economics has been going through a period of change. The most noticeable change has been the drawing together of heterodox economists using different approaches into the larger category of ‘heterodox economics’.
Dow, Sheila
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Rural Labor Supply and Economic Opportunities: Commuting, Migration, Tariffs, and Immigration

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Some rural counties remain dependent on agricultural or manufacturing jobs, but an increasing proportion have diversified economics. Rural counties also differ in their abilities to commute to an urban market characterized by higher wages and labor productivity.
Peter F. Orazem, Mary C. Ahearn
wiley   +1 more source