Valuing water resources in Switzerland using a hedonic price model

Water Resources Research

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 3510-3526

  van Dijk, Diana ^a   Siber, Rosi ^a   Brouwer, Roy ^a,b   Logar, Ivana ^a   Sanadgol, Dorsa ^c  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

hedonic pricing; spatial error; spatial lag; Switzerland; water resources

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COSTS; ECONOMICS; HOUSING; RIVERS;

ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERISTIC; HEDONIC PRICING; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS; SPATIAL ERRORS; SPATIAL LAGS; SWITZERLAND;

WATER RESOURCES;

AUTOCORRELATION; COST ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEDONIC ANALYSIS; HOUSING MARKET; NEIGHBORHOOD; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; WATER RESOURCE;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84966332506     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015WR017534     Document Type: Article

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