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Valuing ecosystem services in general equilibrium

Carbone, Jared C. - 2010

We explore the consequences of treating the multiple, non-market benefits associated with improvements in ecosystem … to pay measures of use-based ecosystem services are impacted by the changes in demand for complementary market goods …. Demand for these goods shifts due to the introduction of pollution regulations that deliver improvements in ecosystem …

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Agro-Ecosystem Productivity and the Dynamic Response to Shocks

Chavas, Jean-Paul - 2016

This paper investigates the nonlinear dynamic response to shocks, relying on a threshold quantile autoregression (TQAR) model as a flexible representation of stochastic dynamics. The TQAR model can identify zones of stability/instability and characterize resilience and traps. Resilience means...

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Cash for Carbon : A Randomized Controlled Trial of Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Deforestation

Jayachandran, Seema - 2016

This paper evaluates a Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) program in western Uganda that offered forest …

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Optimal Harvest with Multiple Fishing Zones, Endogenous Price and Global Uncertainty

Pizarro, Jose; Schwartz, Eduardo S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The literature on the optimal harvest of fisheries has concentrated on a single fishing area with biomass uncertainty and to a lesser degree also with price uncertainty. We develop and implement a stochastic optimal control approach to determine the harvest that maximizes the value of a fishery...

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Big Fish in Thin Markets : Competing with the Middlemen to Increase Market Access in the Amazon

Bartkus, Viva Ona; Brooks, Wyatt; Kaboski, Joseph Paul; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Middlemen are ubiquitous in supply chains. In developing countries they help bring products from remote communities to end markets but may exert strong market power. We study a cooperative intervention which organizes together poor fishing communities in the Amazon -- one of the poorest and most...

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Non-Parametric Tests of the Tragedy of the Commons

Banzhaf, H. Spencer - 2019

Extending recent results in the industrial organization literature (Carvajal et al. 2013), we de-rive non-parametric tests of behavior consistent with the tragedy of the commons model. Our approach derives testable implications of such behavior under any arbitrarily concave, differentiable...

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Coasean Approaches to Ending Overfishing : Bigeye Tuna Conservation in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean

Ovando, Daniel - 2020

Bigeye tuna in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean were perceived as overfished for nearly 20 years, in large part due to incidental catch in the much larger skipjack tuna fishery. Efforts to halt the overfishing of bigeye stalled due to disagreements over the distribution of costs and...

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Efficiency Advantages of Grandfathering in Rights-Based Fisheries Management

Anderson, Terry L. - 2010

We show that grandfathering fishing rights to local users or recognizing first possessions is more dynamically efficient than auctions of such rights. It is often argued that auctions allocate rights to the highest-valued users and thereby maximize resource rents. We counter that rents are not...

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Overcoming the common pool problem through voluntary cooperation : the rise and fall of a fishery cooperative

Deacon, Robert T. - 2010

We analyze a seldom used, but highly promising form of rights-based management over common pool resources that involves the self-selection of heterogeneous fishermen into sectors. The fishery management regime assigns one portion of an overall catch quota to a voluntary cooperative, with the...

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Property Rights, Regulatory Capture, and Exploitation of Natural Resources

Costello, Christopher - 2015

We study how the strength of property rights to individual extractive firms affects a regulator's choice over exploitation rates for a natural resource. The regulator is modeled as an intermediary between current and future resource harvesters, rather than between producers and consumers, as in...

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