Estimating the demand for peace and quiet using property market data

Working Paper - Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment

Volumn , Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-37

  Day, Brett ^a   Bateman, Ian ^a   Lake, Iain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Demand system; Hedonic pricing; Model based clustering; Noise valuation; Partial linear model; Simultaneous equation tobit; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMETRICS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; HEDONIC ANALYSIS; NOISE POLLUTION; NONLINEARITY; PEACEKEEPING; POLLUTION CONTROL; PROPERTY MARKET; VALUATION;

EID: 56449131137     PISSN: 09678875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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