Land Economics articles from November 1989

Land Economics archives from November 1989

Indivisible toxic torts: the economics of joint and several liability.
November 1, 1989... Indivisible Toxic Torts: The Economics of Joint and Several Liability The economic literature concerned with cost-effective or efficient pollution control has traditionally devoted most of its attention to analyzing the effects of legislative...

Targeting the conservation reserve program to maximize water quality benefits.
November 1, 1989... Targeting the Conversion Reserve Program to Maximize Water Quality Benefits There is a growing desire on the part of environmental and conservation groups to see agricultural programs that remove cropland from production, or that require...

Economics of reducing off-site costs of wind erosion.
November 1, 1989... Economics of Reducing Off-Site Costs of Wind Erosion Wind erosion in the western United States represents a major soil conservation problem. Of the over two billion tons of soil eroded annually by wind on nonfederal land in the U.S. nearly...

Selectivity bias in urban land value functions.
November 1, 1989... Selectivity Bias in Urban Land Value Functions Existing studies of land values in urban areas can be grouped into four broad categories: (1) those that combine several land uses and estimate a single function without distinguishing the type...

A structural approach to the economic base multiplier.
November 1, 1989... A Structural Approach to the Economic Base Multiplier Recent economic base multiplier literature is largely empirical, relying implicitly for theoretical justification on a model of the local economy that is little changed since Tiebout...

A capitalization approach to fiscal incidence at the local level.
November 1, 1989... A Capitalization Approach to Fiscal Incidence at the Local Level This paper argues that an analysis of the capitalized burdens and benefits of the local public sector offers a simple, straightforward and objective computational methodology to...

User fees and equity issues in public hunting expenditures: the case of ring-necked pheasant in Oregon.
November 1, 1989... User Fees and Equity Issues in Public Hunting Expenditures: The Case of Ring-Necked Pheasant in Oregon Declining real budgets for wildlife agencies are focusing attention on the potential for user fees to supply specific services. While...

Characteristics of limited entry fisheries and the option component of entry licenses.
November 1, 1989... Characteristics of Limited Entry Fisheries and the Option Component of Entry Licenses Entry limitations are frequently proposed as a partial solution to the common pool problem that characterizes most fisheries. Entry limitations have...

Designing electricity rate structures for irrigation.
November 1, 1989... Designing Electricity Rate Structures for Irrigation The U.S. electric power utility industry, including rural electric cooperatives (RECs), has excess generation capacity. Estimates of the excess commonly range from about 25 percent...

On the development of the theory of land rent.
November 1, 1989... On the Development of the Theory of Land Rent W. S. Jevons (1879, Chapter VI) reports that "the Theory of Rent was first discovered and clearly stated by James Anderson in a tract published in 1777" (p. 228). He quotes a key passage (pp....