A difficult and challenging decision facing policy makers is the allocation of goods that generate externalities. It is well known that markets forces alone will lead to inefficient outcomes. Of particular interest in modern industrial societies is the task of choosing locations for siting noxious facilities such as waste treatment facilities, landfills, or nuclear waste repositories. Such faci...

Research on abstract and/or hypothetical energy projects (e.g., nuclear, wind, solar energy) has shown that people favour support their core values, and disfavour threaten values. The question is to what extent consider the implications for values once become concrete, have real consequences, come backyard. In a community affected by earthquakes induced gas extraction, we studied relationships ...

This paper studies the simultaneous reshuffle and yard crane scheduling problem in the yard of container terminals, which is one of the key logistics problems affecting the operation efficiency in container terminals. Although the reshuffle scheduling problem has received many research attention due to its importance, the problem without considering yard crane is not very practical, which is be...

Consider Fritz, who is nowadays a happy resident of Saarbrücken. On sunny Saturdays, Fritz has the habit of barbecuing Bratwurst with his friends in his yard and going thereafter to his local, the Nächstestrasse Biergarten, ‘NB’ for short. Fritz may have a couple of beers while eating his Bratwurst at home, but nothing which compares to the amount he will drink thereafter at the beer garden. Th...

This article analyzes the long-term consequences of nuclear waste storage within a general equilibrium framework. The objective is to determine the conditions for which the storage of waste, and thus the transfer of externalities towards the future, can be optimal. These conditions could explain the implementation of intergenerational externalities, justifying an intertemporal Not In My Back Ya...

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We consider the situation of rearranging freight trains in a shunting yard with a hump and several tracks. Here, an elementary shunting operation is to push a all cars of one track over the hump. On the way back to the tracks the cars can be guided individually to an arbitrary track. The goal is to create one or several trains that have their cars in a particular order. We measure the efficienc...