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Douglas W. Yu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the market triumph of ecotourism an economic investigation of the private and social benefits of competing land uses in the peruvian amazon
PLOS ONE, 2010Co-Authors: Christopher A Kirkby, Renzo Giudicegranados, Luz Marina Velardeandrade, Agusto Duenasduenas, Juan Carlos Lararivas, Kerry Turner, Douglas W. YuAbstract:Annual revenue flow to developing countries for ecotourism (or nature-based tourism) could be as large as US$ 210×1012, providing an enormous financial incentive against habitat loss and exploitation. However, is ecotourism the most privately and/or socially valuable use of rainforest land? The question is rarely answered because the relevant data, estimates of profits and fixed costs, are rarely available. We present a social cost-benefit analysis of land use in an ecotourism cluster in the Tambopata region of Amazonian Peru. The net present value of ecotourism-controlled land is given by the Producer Surplus (profits plus fixed costs of ecotourism lodges): US$ 1,158 ha−1, which is higher than all currently practiced alternatives, including unsustainable logging, ranching, and agriculture. To our knowledge, this is the first sector-wide study of profitability and Producer Surplus in a developing-country ecotourism sector and the first to compare against equivalent measures for a spectrum of alternative uses. We also find that ecotourism-controlled land sequesters between 5.3 to 8.7 million tons of above-ground carbon, which is equivalent to between 3000–5000 years of carbon emissions from the domestic component of air and surface travel between the gateway city of Cusco and the lodges, at 2005 emission rates. Ecotourism in Tambopata has successfully monetized the hedonic value of wild nature in Amazonian Peru, and justifies the maintenance of intact rainforest over all alternative uses on narrow economic grounds alone.
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the market triumph of ecotourism an economic investigation of the private and social benefits of competing land uses in the peruvian amazon
PLOS ONE, 2010Co-Authors: Christopher A Kirkby, Renzo Giudicegranados, Luz Marina Velardeandrade, Agusto Duenasduenas, Juan Carlos Lararivas, Kerry Turner, Douglas W. YuAbstract:Annual revenue flow to developing countries for ecotourism (or nature-based tourism) could be as large as US$ 210×1012, providing an enormous financial incentive against habitat loss and exploitation. However, is ecotourism the most privately and/or socially valuable use of rainforest land? The question is rarely answered because the relevant data, estimates of profits and fixed costs, are rarely available. We present a social cost-benefit analysis of land use in an ecotourism cluster in the Tambopata region of Amazonian Peru. The net present value of ecotourism-controlled land is given by the Producer Surplus (profits plus fixed costs of ecotourism lodges): US$ 1,158 ha−1, which is higher than all currently practiced alternatives, including unsustainable logging, ranching, and agriculture. To our knowledge, this is the first sector-wide study of profitability and Producer Surplus in a developing-country ecotourism sector and the first to compare against equivalent measures for a spectrum of alternative uses. We also find that ecotourism-controlled land sequesters between 5.3 to 8.7 million tons of above-ground carbon, which is equivalent to between 3000–5000 years of carbon emissions from the domestic component of air and surface travel between the gateway city of Cusco and the lodges, at 2005 emission rates. Ecotourism in Tambopata has successfully monetized the hedonic value of wild nature in Amazonian Peru, and justifies the maintenance of intact rainforest over all alternative uses on narrow economic grounds alone.
Christopher A Kirkby - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the market triumph of ecotourism an economic investigation of the private and social benefits of competing land uses in the peruvian amazon
PLOS ONE, 2010Co-Authors: Christopher A Kirkby, Renzo Giudicegranados, Luz Marina Velardeandrade, Agusto Duenasduenas, Juan Carlos Lararivas, Kerry Turner, Douglas W. YuAbstract:Annual revenue flow to developing countries for ecotourism (or nature-based tourism) could be as large as US$ 210×1012, providing an enormous financial incentive against habitat loss and exploitation. However, is ecotourism the most privately and/or socially valuable use of rainforest land? The question is rarely answered because the relevant data, estimates of profits and fixed costs, are rarely available. We present a social cost-benefit analysis of land use in an ecotourism cluster in the Tambopata region of Amazonian Peru. The net present value of ecotourism-controlled land is given by the Producer Surplus (profits plus fixed costs of ecotourism lodges): US$ 1,158 ha−1, which is higher than all currently practiced alternatives, including unsustainable logging, ranching, and agriculture. To our knowledge, this is the first sector-wide study of profitability and Producer Surplus in a developing-country ecotourism sector and the first to compare against equivalent measures for a spectrum of alternative uses. We also find that ecotourism-controlled land sequesters between 5.3 to 8.7 million tons of above-ground carbon, which is equivalent to between 3000–5000 years of carbon emissions from the domestic component of air and surface travel between the gateway city of Cusco and the lodges, at 2005 emission rates. Ecotourism in Tambopata has successfully monetized the hedonic value of wild nature in Amazonian Peru, and justifies the maintenance of intact rainforest over all alternative uses on narrow economic grounds alone.
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the market triumph of ecotourism an economic investigation of the private and social benefits of competing land uses in the peruvian amazon
PLOS ONE, 2010Co-Authors: Christopher A Kirkby, Renzo Giudicegranados, Luz Marina Velardeandrade, Agusto Duenasduenas, Juan Carlos Lararivas, Kerry Turner, Douglas W. YuAbstract:Annual revenue flow to developing countries for ecotourism (or nature-based tourism) could be as large as US$ 210×1012, providing an enormous financial incentive against habitat loss and exploitation. However, is ecotourism the most privately and/or socially valuable use of rainforest land? The question is rarely answered because the relevant data, estimates of profits and fixed costs, are rarely available. We present a social cost-benefit analysis of land use in an ecotourism cluster in the Tambopata region of Amazonian Peru. The net present value of ecotourism-controlled land is given by the Producer Surplus (profits plus fixed costs of ecotourism lodges): US$ 1,158 ha−1, which is higher than all currently practiced alternatives, including unsustainable logging, ranching, and agriculture. To our knowledge, this is the first sector-wide study of profitability and Producer Surplus in a developing-country ecotourism sector and the first to compare against equivalent measures for a spectrum of alternative uses. We also find that ecotourism-controlled land sequesters between 5.3 to 8.7 million tons of above-ground carbon, which is equivalent to between 3000–5000 years of carbon emissions from the domestic component of air and surface travel between the gateway city of Cusco and the lodges, at 2005 emission rates. Ecotourism in Tambopata has successfully monetized the hedonic value of wild nature in Amazonian Peru, and justifies the maintenance of intact rainforest over all alternative uses on narrow economic grounds alone.
Hee Kwon Seo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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how do government transfer payments affect retail prices and welfare evidence from snap
Social Science Research Network, 2017Co-Authors: Justin Leung, Hee Kwon SeoAbstract:We study the effect of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on retail prices nationwide. Program adjustments at the state level motivate our identification strategy. A 1% increase in benefits per population raises grocery prices by a persistent 0.08%. A calibrated partial-equilibrium model implies a marginal benefit dollar raises a recipient’s consumer Surplus from groceries by $0.7, Producer Surplus by $0.5, and lowers each non-SNAP consumer’s Surplus by $0.06, because of a large marginal-propensity-to-consume-food out of SNAP, low elasticities of demand, and market power. To guarantee the real intended spending power on food, benefits should be increased by 10%.
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how do government transfer payments affect retail prices and welfare evidence from snap
Social Science Research Network, 2017Co-Authors: Justin Leung, Hee Kwon SeoAbstract:The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) pays for around 15% ($70 billion) of US food-store consumption each year. We assess the impact of SNAP disbursements on real consumption over the Great Recession and the ensuing decade. We document the payment formula as specified in government computer codes used to audit SNAP, and use the codes to simulate how the payments would have evolved had recipient characteristics remained fixed at pre-specified levels. Using national scanner data available since 2006 and the simulated instrument, we estimate that a 1% increase in SNAP benefits per population led to a persistent 0.08% increase in grocery prices. We verify long and flat pre-trends, sharp timing, and stronger effects in counties where the recipient share of the population is larger. Estimates of marginal propensities to consume food (MPCF) support past findings. We develop and calibrate a partial equilibrium model, both to test the consistency of the findings with theory and to interpret the results. A marginal dollar of benefits raises the recipient’s consumer Surplus from groceries by $0.7, Producer Surplus by $0.5, and lowers each non-SNAP consumer’s Surplus by $0.06, because of the large MPCF out of SNAP, low elasticities of demand, and market power. If the objective of SNAP is to guarantee the intended floor of real spending power on food, federal maximum benefits should be increased by 10% to account for the price response.
Justin Leung - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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how do government transfer payments affect retail prices and welfare evidence from snap
Social Science Research Network, 2017Co-Authors: Justin Leung, Hee Kwon SeoAbstract:We study the effect of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on retail prices nationwide. Program adjustments at the state level motivate our identification strategy. A 1% increase in benefits per population raises grocery prices by a persistent 0.08%. A calibrated partial-equilibrium model implies a marginal benefit dollar raises a recipient’s consumer Surplus from groceries by $0.7, Producer Surplus by $0.5, and lowers each non-SNAP consumer’s Surplus by $0.06, because of a large marginal-propensity-to-consume-food out of SNAP, low elasticities of demand, and market power. To guarantee the real intended spending power on food, benefits should be increased by 10%.
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how do government transfer payments affect retail prices and welfare evidence from snap
Social Science Research Network, 2017Co-Authors: Justin Leung, Hee Kwon SeoAbstract:The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) pays for around 15% ($70 billion) of US food-store consumption each year. We assess the impact of SNAP disbursements on real consumption over the Great Recession and the ensuing decade. We document the payment formula as specified in government computer codes used to audit SNAP, and use the codes to simulate how the payments would have evolved had recipient characteristics remained fixed at pre-specified levels. Using national scanner data available since 2006 and the simulated instrument, we estimate that a 1% increase in SNAP benefits per population led to a persistent 0.08% increase in grocery prices. We verify long and flat pre-trends, sharp timing, and stronger effects in counties where the recipient share of the population is larger. Estimates of marginal propensities to consume food (MPCF) support past findings. We develop and calibrate a partial equilibrium model, both to test the consistency of the findings with theory and to interpret the results. A marginal dollar of benefits raises the recipient’s consumer Surplus from groceries by $0.7, Producer Surplus by $0.5, and lowers each non-SNAP consumer’s Surplus by $0.06, because of the large MPCF out of SNAP, low elasticities of demand, and market power. If the objective of SNAP is to guarantee the intended floor of real spending power on food, federal maximum benefits should be increased by 10% to account for the price response.
Rizal Rustam - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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EFFECT OF IMPORT TARIFF IMPLEMENTATION POLICY ON REFINED SUGAR PRODUCT COMPETITIVENESS IN INDONESIA
2020Co-Authors: Rizal RustamAbstract:ABSTRACT This research is set out to determine the effect of welfare distribution the respect to import duty on the government revenue, consumer expenditures, Producer revenues, and efficiency losses (in production, in consumption and net effect), and the level of competitiveness of cane sugar in Indonesia by calculating the Domestic Resource Cost (DRC). The research used secondary data from related preceding researches and other references such as magazines, journals, bulletins and the like. The research result showed that the government revenue, change of consumer Surplus, Producer Surplus, economic net loss in production and consumption and exchange gain economization, are influenced by the import tariff and elasticity price toward supply and demand. It also showed that sugar product competitiveness in Indonesia is higher than the same product from other countries as the value of DRC is less than one
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Effect Of Import Tariff Implementation Policy On Refined Sugar Product Competitiveness In Indonesia
Agro-Science, 2010Co-Authors: Rizal RustamAbstract:This research is set out to determine the effect of welfare distribution the respect to import duty on the government revenue, consumer expenditures, Producer revenues, and efficiency losses (in production, in consumption and net effect), and the level of competitiveness of cane sugar in Indonesia by calculating the Domestic Resource Cost (DRC). The research used secondary data from related preceding researches and other references such as magazines, journals, bulletins and the like. The research result showed that the government revenue, change of consumer Surplus, Producer Surplus, economic net loss in production and consumption and exchange gain economization, are influenced by the import tariff and elasticity price toward supply and demand. It also showed that sugar product competitiveness in Indonesia is higher than the same product from other countries as the value of DRC is less than one. Key word: Sugar, Welfare Distribution, Domestic Resource Cost (DRC), Import tariff.
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Effect Of Import Tariff Implementation Policy On Refined Sugar Product Competitiveness In Indonesia
2010Co-Authors: Rizal RustamAbstract:This research is intent to determining: (a) the effect of welfare distribution with applied import tariff of the government revenue, consumer expenditures, Producer revenues, and efficiency losses (in production, in consumption and net effect), and (b) the level of competitiveness of cane sugar in Indonesia by calculating the Domestic Resource Cost (DRC). The research using libraries research method, that is collecting data from the related preceding researches and other references such as magazines, journals, bulletins and the like. The research result showed that : (a) the government revenue, change of consumer Surplus, Producer Surplus, economic net loss in production and consumption and exchange gain economization, are influenced by the import tariff and elasticity price toward supply and demand, so that the welfare distribution value will be bigger; (b) sugar product competitiveness in Indonesia by knowing cane field calculation in East Java both wet and dry field is higher than the same product from other countries as it is shown by the value of DRC