Aspects of the theory of environmental policy in developing countries (2002)
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Hamid Beladi
We study two issues relating to the conduct of environmental policy in developing countries (DCs). First, when faced with a self-financing constraint, should an environmental authority (EA)...
A theoretical analysis of season length restrictions in fisheries management (2002)
Qing Xu, Amitrajeet A. Batabyal
This paper studies season length restrictions in fisheries management from an ecological-economic perspective. We first construct a model of a stylized fishery in which season length restrictions are...
A theoretical analysis of season length restrictions in fisheries management (2002)
Qing Xu, Amitrajeet A. Batabyal
This paper studies season length restrictions in fisheries management from an ecological-economic perspective. We first construct a model of a stylized fishery in which season length restrictions are...
Aspects of the theory of environmental policy in developing countries (2002)
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Hamid Beladi
We study two issues relating to the conduct of environmental policy in developing countries (DCs). First, when faced with a self-financing constraint, should an environmental authority (EA)...
Herding in ranch operations: an analysis of a search problem
Herding is an integral part of ranch operations in contemporary times. An aspect of herding that has received scant attention in the literature concerns the pros and cons of searching for livestock...
On the tradeoff between cultural sensitivity and aggregate size in population control policy
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Hamid Beladi
Recently, Batabyal proposed an unconventional population control policy that is sensitive to the cultural desire for male progeny in many Asian nations. Although the proposed policy is culturally...
Meetings and exposure before an arranged marriage: a probabilistic analysis
It is now common for parents and relatives of an individual seeking to have an arranged marriage to set up one or more meetings between this individual and prospective spouses. As a result of these...
An Agenda for the Design and Study of International Environmental Agreements.
The combination of a general greening of international political debate, and the events of 1992 at the Rio Earth summit have led to great interest in the question of global environmental protection....
I analyze the problem faced by an asymmetrically informed supranational governmental authority (SNGA) with limited financial resources who wishes to design an International Environmental Agreement...
On Some Aspects of the Management of a Stochastically Developing Forest.
In this paper I focus on some important biological aspects of the forest management problem. I model a stochastically developing forest as a multidimensional, continuous-time Markov chain. Next, I...
Modeling Ecological Constraints on Tropical Forest Management: Comment.
Barrett, Christopher B., Amitrajeet A. Batabyal.
We comment on four aspects of Albers' [1] model of ecological constraints on tropical forest management. Albers structures her model in a highly asymmetric manner, with strong, uniform biases against...
Consistency and Optimality in a Dynamic Game of Pollution Control I: Competition.
I model the interaction between a regulator and polluting firms as a Stackelberg differential game in which the regulator leads. The firms create pollution, which results in a stock externality. I...
Atemporal and intertemporal use of public lands, the determination of optimal levels of wilderness designation and habitat preservation, and the appropriate regulation of natural resources have all...
The Queuing Theoretic Approach to Groundwater Management.
In this paper I propose and develop a new framework for modeling groundwater management issues. Specifically, I apply the methods of queuing theory—for the first time, to the best of my...
The Impact of Information on Land Development: A Dynamic and Stochastic Analysis.
In a two-period model, economists such as K.J. Arrow, A.C. Fisher, and C. Henry, have shown that when development is both indivisible and irreversible, a developer who ignores the possibility of...
A Renewal Theoretic Approach to Environmental Standard Setting.
The process of environmental regulation is usually a two-step one. In the first step, a standard for environmental quality is set. Then, in the second step, a regulatory mechanism is put in place to...
Game Models of Environmental Policy in an Open Economy.
In this paper we study some aspects of the question of international environmental regulation from a game theoretic perspective. We address two broad questions. First, we examine the circumstances...
Renewable Resource Management in Developing Countries: How Long Until Crisis?
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Hamid Beladi
A key goal of renewable resource managers in developing countries is to take actions to ensure that the resource being managed stays away from irreversible or crisis states, in which it provides...
The concept of resilience: retrospect and prospect
The modern study of stability in ecology can be said to have begun with the appearance of Fluctuations of Animal Populations and a Measure of Community Stability , by R.H. MacArthur in 1955. Since...
Corruption, Bribery, and Wait Times in the Public Allocation of Goods in Developing Countries
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Seung Jick Yoo
What are the nexuses between corruption, bribery, and wait times in the public allocation of goods in developing countries? This question has received scant attention in the literature. Consequently,...
Swidden Agriculture in Developing Countries
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Hamid Beladi
Small farmers in many tropical developing countries practice swidden agriculture. A key aspect of swidden agriculture is the time period during which the land is left fallow. This paper uses a new...
Environmental Policy in Developing Countries: A Dynamic Analysis.
A dynamic model is constructed of the environmental policy formulation process in a stylized developing country (DC). The paper analyzes the employment and output effects of three pollution control...
Optimal Resource Management in the Presence of a Deleterious Alien Species
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Peter Nijkamp
Various plants and resources such as orchards are vulnerable to the detrimental effects of successful invasions by alien animal or plant species. To outline an appropriate policy response, we first...
A Stackelberg Game Model of Trade in Renewable Resources with Competitive Sellers
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Hamid Beladi
We model international trade in renewable resources between a single buyer and competitive sellers as a Stackelberg differential game. The buyer uses unit and ad valorem tariffs to indirectly...
Book Review: Conflict Unending:India-Pakistan Tensions since 1947
Book Review of Sumit Ganguly, Conflict Unending:India-Pakistan Tensions since 1947, Columbia University Press, NewYork, NY, and Woodrow Wilson Press, Washington, DC, 2001, 187 pages, ISBN 023112368X,...
Book Review of Pranab Bardhan, Scarcity, Conflicts, and Cooperation: Essays in the Political and Institutional Economics of Development, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005. PP 306, US$25.00 (Paperback)...
Favoritism in the Public Provision of Goods in Developing Countries
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Peter Nijkamp
Goods are often allocated publically by means of queuing processes in developing countries. In such situations, which group of citizens should a corrupt government official favor? In addition, what...
Should Large Developing Countries Pursue Environmental Policy Unilaterally?
In this paper, we ask the following question. Why is it that despite the universal recognition of the need for global environmental protection, developing countries have been lax in instituting...
International trade and biological invasions: A queuing theoretic analysis of the prevention problem
The Steady State Distribution of Animals in Short Duration Grazing.
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A, Yoo, Seung Jick
This note addresses the following hitherto unstudied question in rangeland management: What is the steady state distribution of livestock animals for rangelands that are managed using short duration...
Arranged or Love Marriage? That Is the Question.
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A, Beladi, Hamid
Although arranged and love marriages have been around for a long time there seems to be no comparative analyses in the economics literature of the relative merits of one or the other kind of...
On Flood Occurrence and the Provision of Safe Drinking Water in Developing Countries.
Developing countries in South Asia and elsewhere are frequently ravaged by floods. An important part of most flood management programmes is the provision of safe drinking water (SDW) to prevent the...
The Stocking Rate versus Time in Range Management: A Review of Recent Theoretical Developments.
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A, Biswas, Basudeb, Godfrey, E Bruce
A long-standing question in range management concerns the relative importance of the stocking rate versus the length of time during which animals graze a particular rangeland. Recently, Batabyal and...
A complete characterization of mean wait times for citizens in the non-preemptive corruption regime
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Seung Jick Yoo
Recently, Batabyal and Yoo (2004) have used a queuing model with two types of citizens (high and low opportunity cost of time) to compute mean wait times in queue for the so called non-preemptive...
I analyze the problem faced by an imperfectly informed supra-national governmental authority (SNGA) that wishes to design an International Environmental Agreement (IEA). The SNGA cannot contract...
This article addresses the problem faced by an asymmetrically informed supra-national governmental authority (SNGA) with limited funds that wishes to design an international environmental agreement...
The persistence of ecological-economic systems: Alternate measures and their properties
A number of ecologists and some economists have commented on the significance of persistence as a stability concept for jointly determined ecological-economic systems. This notwithstanding, the...
Game models of environmental policy in an open economy
In this paper we study some aspects of the question of international environmental regulation from a game theoretic perspective. We address two broad questions. First, we examine the circumstances...
Games governments play: An analysis of national environmental policy in an open economy*
In this paper we study some of the consequences of national environmental policy in a strategic international setting. Two broad questions are analyzed. First, we examine the circumstances under...
An optimal stopping approach to land development under uncertainty
The Arrow-Fisher-Henry (AFH) analysis of land development under uncertainty has been conducted in a two period model. Recently, Capozza and Helsley (1990) and Batabyal (1996, 1997) have addressed the...
Price competition, pollution, and environmental policy in an open economy
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Qing Xu
We study three issues about environmental policy in a two country world in which national governments and polluting firms act strategically. First, we examine the conditions under which the pursuit...
A MODEL OF POTENTIALLY IMMISERIZING UNILATERAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS
Environmental Economics and Policy,
Amitrajeet A Batabyal, Hamid Beladi
We analyze the design of international environmental agreements (IEA) for developing countries (DCs) by a supranational governmental authority (SNGA). We focus on the interaction between an...
On Container Versus Time Based Inspection Policies in Invasive Species Management
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A., Nijkamp, Peter
We study the problem of precluding biological invasions caused by ships transporting internationally traded goods in containers between different regions of the world. Using the long run expected net...
INDIVISIBILITY AND DIVISIBILITY IN LAND DEVELOPMENT DECISIONS OVER TIME AND UNDER UNCERTAINTY
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A., Yoo, Seung Jick
The quasi-option value (QOV) literature originated by Arrow and Fisher (1974) and by Henry (1974) is largely concerned with the analysis of two-period models of land development. Our paper extends...
INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS: A QUEUING THEORETIC ANALYSIS OF THE PREVENTION PROBLEM
Beladi, Hamid, Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.
We propose and develop a new framework for studying the problem of preventing biological invasions caused by ships transporting internationally traded goods between countries and continents. In...
ON THE CHOICE BETWEEN THE STOCKING RATE AND TIME IN RANGE MANAGEMENT
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A., Biswas, Basudeb, Godfrey, E. Bruce
A long standing question in range management concerns the relative importance of the stocking rate versus the length of time during which animals graze a particular rangeland. We address this...
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Hamid Beladi
We first construct three measures of the expected damage from the unintentional introduction of alien species into a country called Home. We then focus on four market structures. First, perfect...
MODELING ECOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS ON TROPICAL FOREST MANAGEMENT: COMMENT
Barrett, Christopher B., Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.
We comment on four aspects of Albers' [1] model of ecological constraints on tropical forest management. Albers structures her model in a highly asymmetric manner, with strong, uniform biases against...
GAME MODELS OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY IN AN OPEN ECONOMY
In this paper we study some aspects of the question of international environmental regulation from a game theoretic perspective. We address two broad questions. First, we examine the circumstances...
ON SOME ASPECTS OF THE MANAGEMENT OF A STOCHASTICALLY DEVELOPING FOREST
In this paper I focus on some important biological aspects of the forest management problem. I model a stochastically developing forest as a multidimensional, continuous-time Markov chain. Next, I...
Atemporal and intertemporal use of public lands, the determination of optimal levels of wilderness designation and habitat preservation, and the appropriate regulation of natural resources have all...
THE IMPACT OF INFORMATION ON LAND DEVELOPMENT: A DYNAMIC AND STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS
In a two-period model, economists such as K.J. Arrow, A.C. Fisher, and C. Henry, have shown that when development is both indivisible and irreversible, a developer who ignores the possibility of...
A RENEWAL THEORETIC APPROACH TO ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARD SETTING
The process of environmental regulation is usually a two-step one. In the first step, a standard for environmental quality is set. Then, in the second step, a regulatory mechanism is put in place to...
AN AGENDA FOR THE DESIGN AND STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS
The combination of a general greening of international political debate, and the events of 1992 at the Rio Earth summit have led to great interest in the question of global environmental protection....
CONSISTENCY AND OPTIMALITY IN A DYNAMIC GAME OF POLLUTION CONTROL I: COMPETITION
I model the interaction between a regulator and polluting firms as a Stackelberg differential game in which the regulator leads. The firms create pollution, which results in a stock externality. I...
THE QUEUING THEORETIC APPROACH TO GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT
In this paper I propose and develop a new framework for modeling groundwater management issues. Specifically, I apply the methods of queuing theory—for the first time, to the best of my...
I analyze the problem faced by an asymmetrically informed supranational governmental authority (SNGA) with limited financial resources who wishes to design an International Environmental Agreement...
ENDOGENIZING THE RESERVATION VALUE IN MODELS OF LAND DEVELOPMENT OVER TIME AND UNDER UNCERTAINTY
The notion of a reservation value is a key feature of most contemporary dynamic and stochastic models of land development. It is clear that the magnitude of the reservation value has a fundamental...
The concept of resilience: retrospect and prospect
The modern study of stability in ecology can be said to have begun with the appearance of Fluctuations of Animal Populations and a Measure of Community Stability , by R.H. MacArthur in 1955. Since...
International Relations/Trade,
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A., Beladi, Hamid
We first construct three measures of the expected damage from the unintentional introduction of alien species into a country called Home. We then focus on four market structures. First, perfect...