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Banzhaf, H. Spencer - 2020

The National Park Service and other agencies have argued that our recreation lands face a crisis of deferred maintenance. This paper evaluates two proposals for funding public lands, increasing gate fees and taxing recreational gear. It analyzes the joint welfare effects of such taxes and the...

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Tourism and Economic Development : Evidence from Mexico's Coastline

Faber, Benjamin - 2016

Tourism is a fast-growing services sector in developing countries. This paper combines a rich collection of Mexican … consequences of tourism both locally and in the aggregate. We find that tourism causes large and significant local economic gains … regions, so that the national gains from trade in tourism are mainly driven by a classical market integration effect …

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Sticky Price for Declining Risk? : The Case of Cancellation Premia in the Hotel Industry

Lacetera, Nicola; Piga, Claudio A.; Zirulia, Lorenzo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Using data from about seven millions room postings by hotels in France and the UK, we document that, rather than smoothly decreasing to zero, cancellation premia remain positive at roughly 10% to 15% of the full price until two days before the stay. A model where travelers have different...

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Crowding In with Impure Altruism : Theory and Evidence from Volunteerism in National Parks

Kotchen, Matthew - 2019

This paper makes three contributions to the literature on private provision of public goods. First, we identify limitations of the frequently used specification test that distinguishes between the standard models of pure and impure altruism based on the extent of crowding out. While the...

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Should We Drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? An Economic Perspective

Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2007

This paper provides model-based estimates of the value of oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The best estimate of economically recoverable oil in the federal portion of ANWR is 7.06 billion barrels of oil, a quantity roughly equal to US consumption in 2005. The oil is worth...

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Is the Endangered Species Act Endangering Species?

List, John A. - 2006

We develop theory and present a suite of theoretically consistent empirical measures to explore the extent to which market intervention inadvertently alters resource allocation in a sequentialmove principal/agent game. We showcase our approach empirically by exploring the extent to which the...

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Reservation Prices : An Economic Analysis of Cigarette Purchases on Indian Reservations

DeCicca, Philip - 2014

The special legal status of Indian tribes in the U.S. means that state excise taxes are not necessarily collected on cigarette purchases on Indian reservations. We focus on two under-studied but basic empirical economic questions this raises. Using novel data from New York surveys that asked...

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Global Benefits of Marine Protected Areas

Rising, James - 2014

Case studies suggest that Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) can be effective tools for fishery management. This study uses global datasets of MPAs and stock assessments to estimate the strength and robustness of their benefits. We apply multiple models, including a treatment-control pairing, a...

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User Rights for Ocean Ecosystem Conservation

Libecap, Gary D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Non-target marine fish species and ocean ecosystems are increasingly valuable. Ongoing efforts to preserve them emphasize spatial controls on human entry and use via Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). They cover 7.6% of world oceans and aim for 30% by 2030 under the Convention for Biological...

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The Environmental Impacts of Protected Area Policy

Reynaert, Mathias; Rodrigues, Eduardo Augusto de Souza; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The world has pledged to protect 30 percent of its land and waters by 2030 to halt the rapid deterioration of critical ecosystems. We summarize the state of knowledge about the impacts of protected area policies, with a focus on deforestation and vegetation cover. We discuss critical issues...

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