Land Economics articles from August 1991

Land Economics archives from August 1991

Land-use and demographic change: results from fast-growth counties.
August 1, 1991... Population deconcentration has been the primary force shaping changes in urban land use in the United States since World War II (Long and DeAre 1983). The rate, causes, and effects of agricultural land urbanization received much national...

A dynamic interregional theory of migration and population growth.
August 1, 1991... I. INTRODUCTION This paper is an attempt to integrate the theory of amenity value determination in regions as developed by Rosen (1979) and Roback (1982, 1988), and the theoretical framework on migration (see Greenwood 1975, 1981 for a...

Really useful tests of the monocentric model.
August 1, 1991... I. INTRODUCTION The models of residential location in urban land markets originally developed by Alonso (1964) and Muth (1969) have long since established themselves as the foundations of urban economic theory. The fundamental results...

The opportunity cost of coastal land-use controls: an empirical analysis.
August 1, 1991... I. INTRODUCTION For more than a decade demographers have been documenting the migration of the U.S. population from interior to coastal states. A belief that this trend will persist has led to concern about increased housing and...

Option-pricing and timberland's land-use conversion option.
August 1, 1991... I. INTRODUCTION Land expectation value applications to forestry often assume that the land will be allocated to timber growing in perpetuity (Davis 1966, 358-66; Leuschner 1984, 58-65). However, the purchase of a timberland tract...

Bargaining rules for a thin spot water market.
August 1, 1991... I. INTRODUCTION Markets for water rights have long been advocated to resolve user conflicts and to improve efficiency (Trelease 1961; Hartman and Seastone 1970). The potential for efficiency gains from market allocation of water has...

Water permitting behavior under the 1972 Florida Water Resources Act.
August 1, 1991... A water user participating in a political process generally has to actively interact with an agent of the state when applying for water permits and water. The interaction involves contact with such agents, and possibly with other water users....

A note on price perception in water demand models.
August 1, 1991... I. INTRODUCTION In a recent article, Shin (1985) noted that there is still some uncertainty among economists concerning the proper specification of demand equations when consumers face block pricing structures. Much of this uncertainty...

A note on choice of residential location in travel cost demand models.
August 1, 1991... I. INTRODUCTION The price of a trip to a recreation site in a modern travel cost demand model is the sum of an individual's travel cost, opportunity cost of time, site fee, and relevant equipment costs. That price is assumed to be...

Revenue and land-use effects of proposed changes in sin taxes: a general equilibrium perspective.
August 1, 1991... In recent years, large budget deficits have been of great concern to the U.S. government as well as to the general population, leading to pressures for alternative sources of revenue. One possibility is raising income taxes. However, this...