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calculations of the scarcity value of time and marginal values of trips and
days on-site from people s observed optimal quantity choices.
Larson, Douglas M. (1993).
69(4):377-388.
On Measuring Existence Value. Land Economics,
The prevailing consensus that existence value can only be measured by
contingent valuation is questioned. The concern is over pure existence
value, a change in welfare when a public good changes that leaves no trace in
behavior. Pure existence value may well be more a consequence of the simple
models used to characterize nonuse value than a reflection of how people value
public goods. If so, nonuse value can in principle be obtained from observing
behavior as well as from asking questions, which offers a prospect for crosschecks
and corroboration using both approaches. Some possibilities for
empirical measurement are suggested.
Larson, Douglas M., Brett W. House, and Joseph M. Terry (1996). Towards
Efficient Bycatch Management in Multispecies Fisheries: A Nonparametric
Approach. Marine Resource Economics, 11(3):181-201.
Linear programming based models of individual multispecies groundfish
operations in the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands area are developed and applied
to the question of determining efficient bycatches. The policy tool is
halibut quotas, which restrict the bycatch of halibut and also induce changes
in the target species catch composition and bycatch of other prohibited
species. Efficient quotas can be interpolated from the locus of shadow values
for discrete halibut quotas relative to the opportunity cost of prohibited
species bycatch induced by the policy set quotas on halibut bycatch. Because
of information limitations intrinsic to fisheries management, the efficient
halibut quotas are considered in the context of ranges of marginal value and
marginal opportunity cost developed using short and long run groundfish
fishery models and standard error estimates of opportunity cost.
Larson, Douglas M., Brett W. House, and Joseph M. Terry (1998). Bycatch
Control in Multispecies Fisheries: A Quasi-Rent Share Approach to the
Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands Midwater Trawl Pollock Fishery. American
Journal of Agricultural Economics, 80(4):778-792.
Optimal bycatch rules and quota share price estimates are derived from
a multispecies production technology model of the factory trawler fleet
targeting on midwater pollock in the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands region of the
North Pacific Ocean. Data routinely collected by federal and state fisheries
officials on catch and revenue by species, week, and operation are used to
identify the aggregate restricted quasi-rent function for the fishery by
estimating the associated system of inverse demands for species quotas. The
model is estimated using data for the 1991 and 1992 seasons, and separability
and nonjointness of the technology are tested for and rejected.
Lave, Charles A. (1970). "The Demand for Urban Mass Transportation."
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 52:320-324.
This paper explores some of the factors which influence the commuter's
choice of mode. It attempts to provide quantitative estimates of the degree
of transit improvement that will be necessary to attract commuters.
Lea, J.D. and J.S. Shonkwiler (1988). "Misspecification in Simultaneous
Systems: An Alternative Test and Its Application to a Model of the
Shrimp Market." Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics,
20(2):65-72.
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