The purpose of this research is to assess the welfare effects of climate change on the Chilean agricultural sector, with special focus on changes in water availability. The productive impacts of climate change on the agricultural sector are well analyzed at both a global and national level. There is, however, a lack of evidence about the aggregated impacts, considering both demand and supply. T...

Open space protection and the new ‘Smart Growth’ movement have to date been policy slogans lacking any formal analysis and evaluation. Evaluation of land protection policies requires a structural model for land markets with spatial delineation so that the impacts of policy on locational attributes can be described. This paper uses estimates for household preferences derived from a locational eq...