Tahun Terbit

2013

Upon the outbreak of a contagious animal disease, a primary motive for restoring disease-free status is often to regain access to international product markets. Efforts applied toward continuing or regaining such access generate a public good�all growers benefit regardless of the extent of private effort taken, while exclusion is impractical. Private incentives to take preventive measures…

This article develops a choice model for environmental public goods, which allows for consumers to learn about their preferences through consumption experiences. We develop a theoretical model of Bayesian updating, perform comparative statics over the model, and show how the theoretical model can be consistently incorporated into a reduced form econometric model. Our main findings are that in a…

Tahun Terbit

2014

Tahun Terbit

2014

In many parts of the world, natural vegetation has been cleared to allow agricultural production. To ensure a long-term flow of ecosystem services without compromising agricultural activities, restoring the environment requires a balance between public and private benefits and costs. Information about private benefits generated by environmental assets can be utilized to identify conservation o…

Farmland conservation policies typically use zoning and differentiated taxes to prevent urban development of farmland, but little is known about the effectiveness of these policies. This study adds to current knowledge by examining the impact of British Columbia�s Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR), established in 1973, which severely restricts subdivision and nonagricultural uses for more th…

Tahun Terbit

2014

Tahun Terbit

2014

Tahun Terbit

2014