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A comparison of compensating surplus and budget reallocation with opportunity costs specified
Citation
Morrison, M and Hatton MacDonald, D, A comparison of compensating surplus and budget reallocation with opportunity costs specified, Applied Economics, 43, (30) pp. 4677-4688. ISSN 0003-6846 (2010) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2011 Taylor & Francis
DOI: doi:10.1080/00036846.2010.493143
Abstract
The use of most nonmarket valuation techniques is predicated on respondents paying additional amounts of money for increased provision of a public good. However, in many circumstances this may not be appropriate. Treaty rights or the capacity of a government to raise and collect taxes in the context of a developing country may preclude the introduction of new taxes. Alternatively, there may be settings where respondents reject the notion of an additional payment and a different approach to estimating nonmarket values is needed. This article demonstrates a methodology for estimating compensating budget reallocation, which is the amount of expenditure on other public goods that respondents are willing to forego for the government to provide more of another public good. One of the main contributions of this article is a demonstration of how to improve the specification of the opportunity costs of budget reallocations. Second, using choice modelling for the estimation of budget reallocations is compared with the standard approach of estimating compensating surplus. The two approaches produce aggregate results that are of a similar magnitude, however the relative importance of the environmental attributes differs. We also investigate the similarity of value estimates across income groups, and similar to Swallow and McGonagle (2006), we find that budget reallocations produce a different set of preferences for lower income earners.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Research Division: | Economics |
Research Group: | Applied economics |
Research Field: | Environment and resource economics |
Objective Division: | Environmental Policy, Climate Change and Natural Hazards |
Objective Group: | Environmental policy, legislation and standards |
Objective Field: | Environmental protection frameworks (incl. economic incentives) |
UTAS Author: | Hatton MacDonald, D (Professor Darla Hatton MacDonald) |
ID Code: | 103258 |
Year Published: | 2010 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 13 |
Deposited By: | Faculty of Business |
Deposited On: | 2015-09-30 |
Last Modified: | 2015-11-05 |
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