BackBrowsing by Subject "AGRICULTURAL AND NATURAL RESOURCE ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS"
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An Approach to the stability of international environmental agreements: the absorbing sets solution
Olaizola Ortega, María Norma
(2003-12)
We study international environmental negotiations when agreements between countries can not be binding. A problem with this kind of negotiations is that countries have incentives for free-riding from such agreements. We ... -
An austerity-driven energy reform
Espinosa Alejos, María Paz (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2013-12)
In July 2013, the government approved a major overhaul of the Spanish electricity sector to correct existing imbalances that have led to an exponential increase of regulated electricity costs and a huge tariff deficit. The ... -
Analysis of volatility transmissions in integrated and interconnected markets: The case of the Iberian and French markets
Ciarreta Antuñano, Aitor; Zárraga Alonso, Ainhoa (2012)
This paper models the mean and volatility spillovers of prices within the integrated Iberian and the interconnected Spanish and French electricity markets. Using the constant (CCC) and dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) ... -
Can the change in the composition of the US GDP explain the Great Moderation? A test via oil price shocks
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2012)The paper investigates whether the growing GDP share of the services sector can contribute to explain the great moderation in the US. We identify and analyze three oil price shocks and use a SVAR analysis to measure their ... -
Choice experiment study on the willingness to pay to improve
Abdullah, Sabah; Mariel Chladkova, Petr (2009-06)
Modern forms of energy are an important vehicle towards poverty alleviation in rural areas of developing countries. Most developing countries’ households heavily rely on wood fuel which impact their health and social–economic ... -
Comparing the performance of different approaches to deal with attribute non-attendance in discrete choice experiments: a simulation experiment
Hoyos Ramos, David; Mariel Chladkova, Petr ; (2010)
There is a growing body of literature acknowledging that respondents to DCE often use simplifying strategies, like ignoring one or several attributes to provide with their choices. Two main approaches have appeared to ... -
DANTE: Un MEGA dinámico para el control del cambio climático en España
(2006)El estudio de los impactos económicos de las políticas de control del cambio climático requiere del uso de modelos adecuados. Este artículo presenta un Modelo Dinámico de Equilibrio General Aplicado tipo Ramsey. El modelo ... -
Economic Growth and Electricity Consumption in 12 European Countries: A Causality Analysis Using Panel Data
Ciarreta Antuñano, Aitor; Zárraga Alonso, Ainhoa (2008)
We apply recent panel methodology to investigate the relationship between electricity consumption and real GDP for a set of 12 European Union countries using annual data for the period 1970-2004. Recently developed tests ... -
Economic Integration and Privatization of Publicly-owned Firms
; Garzón San Felipe, María Begoña (2001-12)
[EN] We analyse in this paper whether it should be the government of each country that decides whether to privatise a publicly-owned firm (non integration) or whether a supra-national authority should decide whether ... -
Eko-berrikuntza sustatzen duten faktore eragile batzuen azterketa meta-analisiaren bidez
; Zubeltzu Jaka, Eugenio (Facultad de Economía y Empresa. Sección Gipuzkoa, 2016-12-30)
[EU] Berrikuntza epe ertain zein luzean ekonomi hazkundearen giltzarria izan den heinean, berrikuntza berdea, edo eko-berrikuntza, ondorengo hamarkadetan ekonomiaren hazkunde berdea sustatuko duen indar ... -
Electricity consumption and economic growth: evidence from Spain
Ciarreta Antuñano, Aitor; Zárraga Alonso, Ainhoa (2007-01)
The paper investigates both linear and nonlinear causality between electricity consumption and economic growth in Spain for the period 1971-2005. We use the methodology of Toda and Yamamoto (1995) and Dolado and Lütkepohl ... -
Endogenous fisheries management in a stochastic model: Why do fishery agencies use TAC
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2010-12)The aim of this paper is to explain under which circumstances using TACs as instrument to manage a fishery along with fishing periods may be interesting from a regulatory point of view. In order to do this, the deterministic ... -
Environmental Standards, Wage Incomes and the Location of Polluting Firms
; Garzón San Felipe, María Begoña (2000-03)
The purpose of this paper is to study how the choice of environmental standards by governments is affected by the existence of wage incomes when firms' location is endogenous. In developed countries labor is unionized, ... -
Fishing effort validation and substitution possibilities among components: the case study of the VIII division European anchovy fishery
Del Valle Erquiaga, Miren Ikerne; Astorquiza Icazuriaga, María Inmaculada ; Astorkitza Ikazuriaga, Kepa Andoni (Routledge. Taylor & Francis, 2003)
Command and control regulation programs, particularly input constraints, typically fail to achieve stated objectives, because fishermen may substitute unregulated for regulated inputs. It is, thus, essential to have an ... -
Fishing Technology and Optimal Distribution of Harvest Rates
Escapa García, Marta; Prellezo Iguarán, Raúl (1999-06)
In this paper we analyze the optimal management of a joint ownership fishery exploitation model where agents use different fishing gears. As opposed to other works, we consider a model in which the fishing technology affects ... -
Foreign Aid Linked to Infrastructure and/or Pollution Abatement
Barañano Mentxaka, Ilaski; San Martín Lizarralde, Marta (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2014-03)
This paper studies the macroeconomic effects of a permanent increase in foreign aid in a model that takes into account environmental quality. We develop a dynamic equilibrium model in which both public investment in ... -
Fractional Integration Analysis and its Implications on Profitability: the Case of the Mackerel Market in the Basque Country
García Enríquez, Javier; Arteche González, Jesús María ; Murillas Maza, Arantza (2010)
This paper analyses weekly prices for mackerel landed by the inshore fleet at the ports of the Basque Country in 1995-2008, using new econometric techniques never before applied to the fishing market. The idea is to learn ... -
Gobernanza, procesos participativos y conflictos en los Espacios Naturales Protegidos de la Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco
Díez López, María Ángeles; Etxano Gandariasbeitia, Iker; (Eusko Jaurlaritza, Ogasun eta Finantza Saila / Gobierno Vasco, Departamento de Hacienda y Finanzas, 2010)
[ES] El objetivo del artículo es explorar la potencialidad de la Evaluación Multi-criterio Social como enfoque metodológico para evaluar Espacios Naturales Protegidos (ENP) e iniciar un proceso de discusión sobre la ... -
Growth in an oil abundant economy: The case of Venezuela
Agnani, Betty; Iza Padilla, María Amaya (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2005-09)
Venezuela's growth experience over the past fifty years is characterized by a high economic growth rate from 1950 to 1970 and a low economic growth rate in the last thirty years. Although Venezuela is an oil abundant ... -
Growth in Overlapping Generation Economies with Non-Renewable Resources
Agnani, Betty; Gutiérrez Huerta, María José; Iza Padilla, María Amaya (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2002)
Feasibility of positive steady-state growth in overlapping generation (OLG) economies that use non-renewable resources as essential inputs in the production process is analyzed. The model we use is, in essence, that of ...