Kremer and Morcom focus on how the price of ivory affects the incentive to poach elephants and how government policies …€™ that is assumed throughout the paper is so far removed from the real world of elephant conservation that the authorsâ … elephant conservation—an approach that depends not in devaluing the animals under an open-access regime, but in making them …

whether limited legalized trade in otherwise illegal goods can be helpful for achieving policy goals like reducing poaching. …

poaching has not subsided. The paper suggests two additional measures that might help ameliorate the situation—eliminating the …

In this paper an econometric model is used to describe consumer demand for ivory and rhino horn in Japan, using the … Hendry research methodology. The demand for ivory in Japan, a final consumer, was found to be primarily income-led, with an … elasticity of 0.75. International trade restrictions have had a profound effect on the ivory market since 1985. The data for …

Ivory poaching and trading in central and eastern Africa has recently received a lot of attention. On the one hand … is a relatively minor actor in poaching – it can by far not explain the strong intensification of elephant poaching in … the LRA in ivory poaching are useful in bringing attention to the poaching problem, the strict attention to the LRA is not …

international price differences that encourage the smuggling of goods across borders. This article presents an equilibrium model of … smuggling where the supply and demand for smuggled goods depend on interregional price disparities in the presence of a trade … ban. In this model, smuggling is more prevalent when demand and supply among trade partners is more inelastic or when …