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individual transferable quotas, in major commercial fisheries have been
fraught with delay and controversy, largely because of the distributional
issues raised by privatization and recourse to market based regulation. The
second concerns the structure of decision making, and in particular how user
groups and their interests and concerns are and are not brought into the
decision making process. The third concerns the distributional effects of
changes in fisheries property rights and how people respond to them. In this
paper, we touch upon aspects of these topics with particular emphasis on the
hypothetical intersection of privatization and comanagement.
McConnell, Kenneth E. (1979). "Values of Marine Recreational Fishing:
Measurement and Impact of Measurement." American Journal of
Agricultural Economics, 61(5):921-925.
Economists can help improve resource allocation by applying their
evaluation techniques to marine recreational fishing. In this paper, two
approaches to evaluation are reported: the travel cost method and the hedonic
price method. The two approaches are similar in that they rely on observed
behavior rather than responses to hypothetical questions. They differ in the
extent to which they assume an individual can control his environment.
McConnell, Kenneth E. (1985). "The Economics of Outdoor Recreation."
Chapter 15 in Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics,
Allen V. Kneese and James L. Sweeney (eds.), North-Holland, New
York.
The survey is divided into three parts; (1) the extent of and rationale
for government involvement in the provision of outdoor recreation services is
explored; (2) conceptual and empirical issues are investigated in estimating
the demand for benefits of outdoor recreation; (3) some issues relating to the
quality of outdoor recreation are explored. The greatest proportion of the
chapter is devoted to empirical and conceptual demand issues.
McConnell, Kenneth E. (1988). "Heterogeneous Preferences for
Congestion." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management,
15:251-258.
The paper studies the problem of congested recreation facilities when
the users differ with regard to their willingness to pay for access to the
site and their aversion to congestion. The simple model of the paper shows
that some user groups may actually increase their use of a site if they are
less price responsive and more averse to congestion than the central
tendencies of all users. These results help explain many administrators'
reluctance to use fees to ration entrance to congested sites. Under plausible
assumptions about the effects of income on price and congestion
responsiveness, the use of a fee would tend to ration sites toward people with
higher incomes.
McConnell, K.E. (1997). Does Altruism Undermine Existence Value? Journal
of Environmental Economics and Management, 32(1):22-37.
The debate over the use of contingent valuation for existence values or
passive-use values has failed to explore the validity of motives for such
values. One potential motive, altruism, has conflicting implications for
benefit-cost analysis, depending on whether the altruist is paternalistic.
This paper constructs models of three types of altruism and shows how benefitcost
analysis responds to each type of altruism, how damage assessment and
restoration depend on each type, and the implications of heterogeneous
altruists.
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