"Valuation Methods for Natural Resources" Summer Term 2010: experiment.

The slides of Erwin Schmid's part are available on a seperate page.
Here I inform about organizational issues for the applied part of the lecture and provide material. I will regularly update the webpage. For certain areas of the webpage you will need a login and a password which I will tell you in the lecture.
If you need to get in contact with me, try ulrich.morawetzÄTboku.ac.at or 01/47654-3672.


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Date Where What/Slides Comment/Material
29.4. SE 03 Auction of public good.
Hedonic Price Method: The theory. 		Bring money for the auction of a summary of the article by Bergstrom and Ready (2009), see below, to be uploaded to this webpge.

If you would like to wirte a summary of "What have we learned from Over 20 Years of Farmland Amenity Valuation Research in North America" (Bergstrom and Ready, 2009), which is relevant for the final exam, prepare an one minute presentation for 29 April which includes
1) a description of your offer (e.g. how many pages),
2) a date wenn you will provide it, and
3) how much you want to have payed for it.

A vote in class we will decide which proposal will be auctioned. 		--
6.5. Computer Lab @ top level of Guttenberghaus Introduction to R.
Hedonic Price Method: An example. 		R-Folder
Map
Hanley and Barbier (2009): Chapter 5 on HPM.
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20.5. SE 03 Preparation and training for CVM.
 Blumenschein et Al (2008);
Cummings and Taylor (1999);
Volksbefragung Wien 2010 (part 1, part 2)
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27.5. SE 03/
outdoors		 Data collection.
Questionnaire English version 4
Questionnaire German version 4 (If you want, email suggestions for corrections/changes of the questionnaires in tracking mode ("Änderungen nachverfolgen") the latest until 26.5..)
Thanks to Philippe Herkrath we now have an improved version (Version 4)! 		Be prepared to collect data for 1.5 h outdoors (Learn the questionnaire!). --
10.6. Computer Lab @ top level of Guttenberghaus CVM Data analysis. Save the following data files in the working directory of R [you find out where this is by typing "getwd()" in the R-Command line]: data as csv file
Save the following text file which contains the R-Code where ever you will find it again later and open it with the Software "Textpad": R-code 		--
17.6. SE 03 Exam first date. At 13.00 in Room XII in Gregor Mendel Haus. Register via BOKUonline --
24.6. SE 03 Exam second date.At 13.00 in Room GH01 in Gutenberghaus. Register via BOKUonline --



LINKS:

The software we will use:
R-Project Webpage. From "CRAN" you can download "R". You also find links to documentations etc there.




















Impressum:
Ulrich Morawetz
1180 Wien