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The Amenity Value of the Italian Climate
The hedonic price literature suggests that locations with more favourable characteristics should display compensating wage and house price differentials. Estimates of the marginal willingness to pay for small changes in climate variables are derived using the hedonic price technique applied to Italian data. A hedonic price model was specified in terms of January and July averages. There exists ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Obesity
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1930-7381,1930-739X
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2007.252