We review nonparametric estimation of efficiency and productivity, by which we mainly mean activity analysis, or data envelopment analysis (DEA). The review covers topics that we hope will be of special interest to those doing research in the realm of agriculture. We also include a brief appendix addressing nonparametric estimation...
Numerous studies have linked individual nutrient loadings from the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers to
the growth of the hypoxic, or oxygen depleted, zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico. However, in the
discussion of policy to remediate Gulf hypoxia, it is beneficial for stakeholders and policymakers to obtain
a single...
In recent years, economists have started to move beyond calculating regulatory effects on a pollutant-by-pollutant basis since their interaction is important. In this study, we take up this issue. To allow for joint production of multiple pollutants and marketable output, we specify our technology using a directional distance function. This...
Reducing harvesting capacity in fisheries is of international importance. In 1999, member nations of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) agreed to an International Plan of Action to reduce fishing capacity. Two initial concerns were the acceptance of a workable definition of capacity and the development of methods...
With the advent of tradable permit programs for bad outputs (e.g., SO₂ emissions); concerns arose over whether
the theoretical gains from trade would be realized. We will employ a methodology that calculates the potential
gains accruing to coal-fired electric power plants from implementing a tradable permit program. The magnitude
of...
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Tradable permits and unrealized gains from trade☆
RolfFäre a,b, Shawna Grosskopf c, Carl A
The Sustainable Fisheries Act (SFA) and Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries Management require restoration of fishery resources and a matching of capacity to desired resource levels. There is, thus, a need to reduce harvesting capacity throughout many of the fisheries of the world. Yet, even the term capacity is...
Interest in ecosystem-based management or the ecosystem-based approach
to fisheries management has rapidly increased on a global basis. Most
options for ecosystem-based management have emphasized some type of
biological and natural conservation or non-use, and minimal attention has
been given to assessing the social and economic ramifications of
ecosystem-based management....
Jointly with kilowatt-hours (kWh), electric power plants also produce CO₂, NO[subscript x], and SO₂. In this paper, we apply an environmental production model based on data envelopment analysis (DEA) to compare the production of kWh under command-and-control regulation of the undesirable byproduct with tradable permit regulation of the byproduct. This...
The three essays in this dissertation progressively answer the following questions: (a) How important are constraints? (b) Who benefits from removing constraints? (c) When does a constraint for a single market predominantly affect closely related markets? These questions are applied in the context of time, weather, and minimum wage constraints,...
The spatial and dynamic pattern of landscape changes has a profound effect on the supply of environmental services, including the provision of habitat for fish and wildlife. Spatial heterogeneity is a common feature of landscapes in the Pacific Northwest, most notably in areas important to the production of salmonid fish...