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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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Trade, Competitive Exclusion, and the Slow-Motion Extinction of the Southern Resident Killer Whales

Taylor, Michael Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Orcinus Orca is the world's largest predator, and simultaneously a significant tourist asset and cultural icon for much of the Pacific Northwest. In the past two decades, the Southern Resident Killer whales (SRKW) have declined by more than 25 percent, and this population appears on a...

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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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Measuring the Economic Effect of Global Warming on Viticulture Using Auction, Retail, and Wholesale Prices

Ashenfelter, Orley C. - 2010

Although auction prices are based on actual transactions, they provide a thick market only for high quality, expensive wines and may overestimate climate's effect on farmer revenues. Wholesale prices, on the other hand, do provide broad coverage of all wines sold and probably come closest to...

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French Wine and the U.S. Boycott of 2003 : Does Politics Really Affect Commerce?

Ashenfelter, Orley - 2007

In early 2003, France actively tried to thwart the plans of the Bush administration to build international support for a war to depose Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein. In response, calls in the United States for a boycott of French products, wine in particular, rebounded through all forms of media....

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Long Run Health Impacts of Income Shocks : Wine and Phylloxera in 19th Century France

Banerjee, Abhijit - 2007

This paper provides estimates of the long-term effects on height and health of a large income shock experienced in early childhood. Phylloxera, an insect that attacks the roots of grape vines, destroyed 40% of French vineyards between 1863 and 1890, causing major income losses among wine growing...

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The Value of Terroir : Hedonic Estimation of Vineyard Sale Prices

Cross, Robin - 2011

We examine the value of terroir, which refers to the special characteristics of a place that impart unique qualities to the wine produced. We do this by conducting a hedonic analysis of vineyard sales in the Willamette Valley of Oregon to ascertain whether site attributes, such as slope, aspect,...

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The Consumption Effects of the Disposition to Sell Winners and Hold Losers

Loos, Benjamin - 2020

We use individual-level data on all security trades, holdings, spending, and income from an online retail bank. We study the effects of an exogenous change in the displayed purchase prices of the mutual funds in individuals' portfolios. We find that individuals are more likely to sell what we...

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Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda

Jones, Maria - 2020

We examine constraints to adoption of new technologies in the context of hillside irrigation schemes in Rwanda. We … leverage a plot-level spatial regression discontinuity design to produce 3 key results. First, irrigation enables dry season … horticultural production, which boosts on-farm cash profits by 70%. Second, adoption is constrained: access to irrigation causes …

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Institutional Path Dependence in Climate Adaptation : Coman's "Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation"

Libecap, Gary D. - 2010

Katharine Coman's "Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation," published in March 1911 in the first issue of the American … and irrigation districts that emerged in the American West in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in response to …

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