Applications of Simulation Methods in Environmental and Resource Economics

431 Pages·2005·7.338 MB·English

by  Kenneth Train, Melvyn Weeks (auth.), Riccardo Scarpa, Anna Alberini (eds.)

APPLICATIONSOFSIMULATION METHODS IN
ENVIRONMENTALAND RESOURCE ECONOMICS
THE ECONOMICSOF NON-MARKETGOODS AND RESOURCES
VOLUME6
Series Editor: Dr. Ian J. Bateman
Dr. Ian J. Bateman is Professor of Environmental Economics at the School of
Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia (UEA) and directs the research
theme Innovation in Decision Support (Tools and Methods) within the Programme on
Environmental Decision Making (PEDM) at the Centre for Social and Economic
Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE), UEA. The PEDM is funded by the UK
Economic and Social Research Council. Professor Bateman is also a member of the
Centre for the Economic and Behavioural Analysis of Risk and Decision (CEBARD) at
UEAand Executive Editor of Environmental and Resource Economics, an international
journal published in cooperation with the European Association of Environmental and
Resource Economists. (EAERE).
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combines and contrasts perspectives from environmental, ecological and resource
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Applications of Simulation
Methods in Environmental and
Resource Economics
Edited by
Riccardo Scarpa
University of York, U.K.,
and University of Waikato,
New Zealand
and
Anna Alberini
University of Maryland, U.S.A.
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Contents
Dedication v
ListofFigures xv
ListofTables xvii
ContributingAuthors xxi
Foreword xxv
Acknowledgments xxvii
Introduction xxix
AnnaAlberiniandRiccardoScarpa
1. Backgroundandmotivation xxix
2. Heterogeneityindiscretechoicemodels xxx
3. Bayesianapplications xxxii
4. Simulationmethodsindynamicmodels xxxiii
5. MonteCarloexperiments xxxiv
6. Computationalaspects xxxv
7. Terminology xxxvi
1
Discrete Choice ModelsinPreferenceSpaceandWilling-to-paySpace 1
KennethTrainandMelvynWeeks
1. Introduction 2
2. Specification 4
3. Data 6
4. Estimation 7
4.1 Uncorrelatedcoefficientsinpreferencespace 7
4.2 UncorrelatedWTP’sinWTPspace 11
4.3 CorrelatedcoefficientsandWTP 14
5. Conclusions 16
2
Using Classical Simulation-Based Estimators to Estimate Individual WTP Values 17
WilliamH.Greene,DavidA.HensherandJohnM.Rose
1. Introduction 18
vii
viii APPLICATIONSOFSIMULATIONMETHODS
2. TheBayesianapproach 19
3. TheMixedLogitModel 21
4. AnEmpiricalExample 24
4.1 StatedChoiceExperimentalDesign 25
4.2 Findings 27
4.3 WTPDerivedfromIndividualParameters 30
4.4 WTPDerivedfromPopulationMoments 31
5. Conclusions 32
3
IntheCostofPowerOutages to Heterogeneous Households 35
DavidF.LaytonandKlausMoeltner
1. Introduction 36
2. ApproachestoEstimatingResidentialOutageCosts 37
3. TheEconometricModel 39
4. EmpiricalAnalysis 42
4.1 Data 42
4.2 ModelEstimation 43
4.3 OutageAttributes 45
4.4 HouseholdCharacteristics 48
4.5 PastOutageHistory 48
4.6 CovarianceParameters 51
4.7 ComparisonwithPreviousEstimates 51
5. DiscussionandConclusion 53
4
CapturingCorrelationandTasteHeterogeneitywithMixedGEVModels 55
StephaneHess,MichelBierlaire,JohnW.Polak
1. Introduction 56
2. Methodology 57
2.1 Closed-formGEVmodels 58
2.2 MixedGEVmodels 59
3. Empiricalanalysis 62
3.1 Multinomiallogitmodel 65
3.2 NestedLogitmodel 65
3.3 Cross-NestedLogitmodel 65
3.4 MixedMultinomialLogitmodel 68
3.5 MixedNestedLogitmodel 71
3.6 MixedCross-NestedLogitmodel 72
4. SummaryandConclusions 73
5
AnalysisofAgri-EnvironmentalPaymentPrograms 77
JosephCooper
1. Introduction 77
2. TheTheoreticalModel 79
3. EconometricModel 80
Contents ix
4. NumericalIllustration 84
5. Conclusion 94
6
A Comparison between MultinomialLogitandProbitModels 97
AndreasZiegler
1. Introduction 98
2. MethodologicalApproachandVariables 99
2.1 BackgroundonDeterminantsofEnvironmentalPerformance 99
2.2 MultinomialDiscreteChoiceModels 100
2.3 DependentandExplanatoryVariables 103
3. Data 105
4. Results 106
4.1 MultinomialLogitandIndependentProbitAnalysis 106
4.2 FlexibleMultinomialProbitAnalysis 108
5. Conclusions 115
7
MixedLogitwithBoundedDistributionsofCorrelatedPartworths 117
KennethTrainandGarrettSonnier
1. Introduction 118
2. Mixedlogitwithnormallydistributedpartworths 121
3. Transformationofnormals 124
4. Application 125
4.1 Choiceexperiments 126
4.2 Models 127
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Kuhn-TuckerDemandSystemApproachestoNon-MarketValuation 135
RogerH.vonHaefen,DanielJ.Phaneuf
1. Introduction 136
2. Modelingframeworkandchallenges 137
vi 3. Empiricalspecificationsandimplementationstrategies 140
3.1 Fixedandrandomparameterclassicalestimationapproaches 141
3.2 RandomparameterBayesianestimationapproaches 144
3.3 Welfareanalysis 146
3.4 Simulatingtheunobservedheterogeneity 147
3.5 CalculatingCSH 148
3.6 Ourwelfarecalculationapproach: arestatement 151
4. Empiricalillustration 151
5. Results 153
5.1 Parameterestimates 153
5.2 Welfareestimates 155
6. Discussion 156
9
HierarchicalAnalysisofProductionEfficiency 159
in a Coastal Trawl Fishery
x APPLICATIONSOFSIMULATIONMETHODS
GarthHolloway,DavidTomberlin,XavierIrz
1. Introduction 160
2. Coastalfisheriesefficiencymeasurement 163
2.1 Whymeasuretechnicalefficiencyinfisheries? 163
2.2 ModellingTechnicalEfficiency 163
2.3 Whathavewelearned? 166
3. Bayesiancomposederrormodeldevelopment 168
3.1 Composed Error Frontier Model With Exponential Ineffi-
ciency 169
3.2 Gibbssamplingthecomposederrormodel 171
3.3 Composed-errormodelscomparison 175
3.4 Truncated-normal,paneldataestimation 177
3.5 Estimationinatwo-layerhierarchy 179
4. EmpiricalevidencefromthePacificCoastGroundfishFishery 180
5. Data 182
6. Results 183
7. ConclusionsandExtensions 184
10
BayesianApproachestoModelingStatedPreffferenceData 187
DavidF.LaytonandRichardA.Levine
1. Introduction 188
2. TheEconometricModelandBayesianEstimationApproach 189
2.1 ModelSpecification 190
2.2 BayesianEstimation 191
2.3 ModelComparisonandMarginalLikelihoodComputation 194
3. TheStatedPreferenceDataSets 196
4. Results 197
5. Conclusion 203
6. AppendixA 204
7. AppendixB 205
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Bayesian Estimation of Dichotomous Choice Contingent Valuation with Follow-up 209
JJJorrgeE.Arrran˜a,CarmeloJJJ.Leo´n
1. Introduction 210
2. Modeling 211
3. Applicationandresults 215
4. Conclusions 220
5. Appendix 221
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ModelingElicitationEffffectsinContingentVVValuationStudies 223
MargaritaGeniusandElisabettaStrazzera
1. Introduction 223