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Valuing Option, Existence, and Bequest Demands for Wilderness

Land EconomicsPublished 1 February 1984
Richard Walsh, John B. Loomis, Richard A. Gillman
Citations391
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SJR score0.69
SNIP0.67

Abstract

To assess the relative importance of current costs and future benefits of nuclear waste storage, we develop a simple model of bequest value. The basic model of nonparternalistic altruism is extended to account for the uncertain nature of the externality. ...

Keywords

Decision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance