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greatest benefits. They also can serve as one of several analyses that
support the decision process for any specific water quality policy. Case
studies are used to clarify points. Data needs, key assumptions, and other
relevant points are covered for different ways of determining the relationship
between desirable and undesirable effects of a program decision.
Desvousges, William H., V. Kerry Smith, and Matthew P. McGivney (1983).
A Comparison of Alternative Approaches for Estimating Recreation
and Related Benefits of Water Quality Improvements. EPA Contract
No. 68-01-5838, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Economic
Analysis Division, Washington, D.C. 20460.
The results of this project strongly support the feasibility of
measuring the recreation and related benefits of water quality improvements.
Moreover, the benefits measurement approaches - several contingent valuation
formats and the travel cost method - show consistent results for comparable
changes in water quality. Indeed, the range of variation is generally less
than that expected in models used to translate the effects of effluents in a
water body into the corresponding water quality parameters. In addition, the
results also clearly show that the intrinsic benefits of water quality
improvements, especially option values, can be measured and that they are a
sizable portion (greater than half) of the total recreation and related
benefits total.
Desvousges, William H., Alicia R. Gable, Richard W. Dunford, and Sara P.
Hudson (1993). "Contingent Valuation: the Wrong Tool to Measure
Passive-Use Losses." Choices, 2nd Quarter: 9-11.
Passive use values have no associated behavior to use in estimation of
existence value of unique natural resources.
Devadoss, S. and William H. Meyers (1987). "Relative Prices and Money:
Further Results for the United States." American Journal of
Agricultural Economics, 69(4):838-842.
Empirical results support the hypothesis that agricultural prices
respond faster than manufactured product prices to a change in money supply in
the United States. Sims' vector autoregression (VAR) technique was applied in
examining this hypothesis. The monte carlo integration method was used to
test the significance of the impulse responses generated by the VAR technique.
Devadoss, Stephen, Jurgen Kropf, and Thomas Wahl (1995). "Trade
Creation and Diversion Effects of the North American Free Trade
Agreement of U.S. Sugar Imports from Mexico." Journal of
Agricultural and Resource Economics, 20(2): 215-230.
A world sugar model consisting of 21 countries was developed to
determine the effects of NAFTA on U.S. and Mexican sugar markets and to
quantify the trade creation and diversion effects on U.S. imports from Mexico.
Mexican sugar production increases under NAFTA, causing Mexico to become a net
exporter. NAFTA induces sugar imports from Mexico to displace U.S.
production, to meet demand expansion, and also to divert U.S. imports from
other foreign suppliers to Mexico. Effects of NAFTA on the U.S. sugar market
are small because of the side agreements which limit Mexican exports and which
include corn sweetener consumption when computing Mexico s production surplus.
DeVoretz, Don and Richard Schwindt (1985). Harvesting Canadian Fish and
Rents: A Partial Review of the Report of the Commission on Canadian
Pacific Fisheries Policy. Marine Resource Economics, 4(1):347-367.
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