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Willingness To Pay for Environmental Protection in Germany: Coping With the Regional Dimension

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H. Peter Witzke, Guido Urfei
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In this paper a two-step procedure is applied to estimate an indicator of environmental willingness to pay for Germany in considerable regional disaggregation. The first step is the estimation of an ordered probit model based on individual data from a representative survey. In the second step, this model is applied to aggregate NUTS III level data to produce an indicator of regional willingness to pay which is useful for the design of an efficient environmental policy. It turns out that the regional distribution of willingness to pay is dominated by the distribution of income in this data set. A partir d'une approchèadeux étapes, cet article cherche à estimer sur le plan régional un indicateur de la volonté de payer la protection de l'environnement en Allemagne. Dans un premier temps, on estime un modèle du type probit ordonné sur la base des données individuelles provenant d'une enquête représentative. Dans un deuxième temps, le modèle se voit appliquer à des données globales du type 'NUTS III' afin de produire un indicateur régional de la volonté de payer qui pourrait être utile pour la mise au point d'une politique efficace en faveur de l'environnement. Il s'avère que la distribution régionale de la volonté de payer s'explique en grande partie par la distribution du revenu que laisse voir cet ensemble de données. In diesem Aufsatz wird ein zweistufiges Verfahren angewandt, um in tiefer regionaler Differenzierung einen Indikator für umweltbezogene Zahlungsbereitschaft in Deutschland zu berechnen. Der erste Schritt ist dabei Schätzung eines geordneten Probit-Modells, gestützt auf Individualdaten aus einer repräsentativen Erhebung. Im zweiten Schritt wird das Modell auf aggregierte Daten auf der 'NUTS III' Ebene angewandt, um einen Indikator der Zahlungsbereitschaft zu erhalten, der für die Konzeption einer effizienten Umweltpolitik nützlich ist. Hierbei ergibt sich, dass die regionale Verteilung der Zahlungsbereitschaft in diesem Datensatz entscheidend von der regionalen Einkommensverteilung beeinflusst wird.

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Volume (Year): 35 (2001)
Issue (Month): 3 (May)
Pages: 207-214
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