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It's becoming clear from the coverage that the U.S. negotiating strategy--to get the Albanians on board and then threaten the Serbs with airstrikes--has come a cropper because U.S. and NATO diplomats have been, in the NYT 's words, "flabbergasted" by the Albanians, especially by the Albanian guerrillas in the delegation.
In order to investigate the impact of using the CV based WTP estimates, the Alternative Estimate relies on a value for incidence of chronic bronchitis using a cost-of-illness estimate based Cropper and Krupnick (1990) which calculates the present value of the lifetime expected costs associated with the illness.
When my eye came a cropper on the word ornariness in a headline in the (Toronto) Globe and Mail , I was pretty sure it was either a misspelling or an editor's plain orneriness.
Krupnick, A.J., A. Alberini, M. Cropper, N. Simon, B. O'Brien, R. Goeree, and M. Heintzelman.
Cost of Illness (COI) estimate is based on Cropper and Krupnick Chronic Bronchitis (Alternative) $107,000 per case (1990).