Browsing by Author "Mitchell Renkow, Member"
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- Economic and Risk effects of Bt Corn and Integrated Pest Management Farmer Field Schools: A Developing Country Perspective.(2012-04-19) Sanglestsawai, Santi; Roderick Rejesus, Chair; Bruce Branson, Graduate School Representative; Michele Marra, Member; Barry Goodwin, Member; Mitchell Renkow, Member
- Economic Consideration in Vector-Borne Disease Management.(2016-02-03) Walsh, Amanda Carol; Walter Thurman, Co-Chair; Melinda Morrill, Co-Chair; Zachary Brown, Member; Mitchell Renkow, Member; Fred Gould, Minor
- Essays on Deforestation and Forest Ecosystem Services: An Economic Perspective.(2018-08-21) Wu, Yu; Erin Sills, Chair; Walter Thurman, Member; Mitchell Renkow, Member; Zachary Brown, Member
- Essays on Price Adjustment in a Competitive Storage Model.(2013-05-14) Tran, Anh Nam; Michael Roberts, Chair; Laura Taylor, Member; Walter Thurman, Member; Mitchell Renkow, Member
- Essays on the Effects of China's accession to the WTO.(2015-08-18) Wang, Junwen; Ivan Kandilov, Chair; Mitchell Renkow, Member; Kathryn Boys, Member; Edward Kick, Member
- Essays on the External Debt of Turkey.(2019-03-25) Koksal, Ismail; Kathryn Boys, Chair; Mitchell Renkow, Member; Giuseppe Fiori, Member
- Experimental Techniques Applied to Development Economics.(2017-03-24) Hample, Kelsey Catherine; Robert Hammond, Chair; Zachary Brown, Member; Mitchell Renkow, Member; Erin Sills, Member
- From Local Production to Global Detection - Essays on Food Security and Food Fraud in International Settings(2024-03-22) Gimonkar, Shweta Sunil; Kathryn Boys, Chair; Ivan Kandilov, Member; Mitchell Renkow, Member; Raymond Guiteras, Member
- Funding Local Rural Highways.(2014-07-17) Clark, Craig Richard; Joseph Hummer, Chair; George List, Member; Edward Jaselskis, Member; Mitchell Renkow, Member
- Statistical Analyses of Diverse Issues in Sustainable Agriculture(2015-06-18) Marticorena, Drew Chandler William; Nancy Creamer, Chair; Terri Long, Graduate School Representative; Michael Schulman, Member; Mitchell Renkow, Member; Jeffrey White, Minor
- The Effects of Terrorism and Political Instability on International Tourist Arrivals: A Focus on Turkey.(2019-03-26) Aktas, Mehmet Celalettin; Kathryn Boys, Chair; Carla Barbieri, Member; Mitchell Renkow, Member
- The Formation and Effects of Taobao Villages.(2018-07-09) Qi, Jiaqi; Xiaoyong Zheng, Chair; Edward Kick, Member; Mitchell Renkow, Member; Zheng Li, Member
- Three Essays on New Approaches for Agricultural Crop Insurance Premium Rate Policy.(2014-05-14) Burton, Julia Irina; Barry Goodwin, Chair; Mehmet Caner, Member; Mitchell Renkow, Member; Sujit Ghosh, Member
- Three Essays on Rice: Consumption, Production and Prices.(2015-10-21) Pornsawang, Chotima; Roderick Rejesus, Chair; Barry Goodwin, Member; Walter Thurman, Member; Mitchell Renkow, Member
- Trade and Environment - Essays on Pollution Haven Hypothesis(2015-05-13) Yang, Tsung Yu; Ivan Kandilov, Chair; Praveen Kolar, Graduate School Representative; Mitchell Renkow, Member; Walter Thurman, Member; Roger von Haefen, Member
- Wildlife on Private Land: Contracting over Wildlife-Inflicted Property Damage and Abatement(1999-04-07) Yoder, Jonathan Keith; Gerald Carlson, Chair; Mitchell Renkow, Member; Charles Knoeber, Member; Alastair Hall, MemberIn its search for sustenance and cover, wildlife imposes costs on agricultural property owners. A mosaic of privateand public contractual arrangements has evolved to address this problem, with private agricultural organizations,county commissions, wildlife agencies and state and federal departments of agriculture all involved. A set ofprevalent contractual arrangements over wildlife damage is formally examined in this dissertation, includingabatement labor sharing, abatement cost sharing, and damage sharing contracts. Wildlife is modeled as a publicand potentially common-property good that is affected by and destructive to private agricultural inputs.Independent production choices that affect the wildlife stock may impose externalities on neighboring landownersor other interested parties. Contracts develop to account for these externalities, and contract structure isdependent on the costs associated with potential contract mechanisms. A fundamental problem of contractingover wildlife damage is that abatement labor effort is difficult to monitor by participants. Contract structures reflectthis difficulty. Two of the theoretical models form the basis for empirical examinations. First, livestock producersin many western states maintain cost-share programs for predator control. A contract value function is developedfor a prevalent cost-sharing rule, and the model is used to explain the observed structure and incidence of theseprograms across counties and states. Second, landowner incentives to alter crop choice in the face ofdeer-inflicted crop damage are examined. A multicrop econometric model allowing for differential damage ratesacross crops is estimated using data from Wisconsin. The model provides implications about the effects ofchanges in certain wildlife agency policy instruments. This dissertation expands the existing economic literature onwildlife damage, as well as the literature on joint production of private and public goods, the economics of pestand wildlife management, and the empirical literature on contracting over common-property and public goods.Private landowners provide much of the land on which wildlife resides, and their incentives are important in thecalculus of wildlife management. This dissertation hopefully will provide a framework useful to wildlife managersfor understanding the impacts on and the reactions of private landowners to wildlife damage policy.
