Escalating Costs of Journals (2006)
The second in a series of articles published in OSU This Week by members of the Faculty Senate Library Committee regarding threats to an open and sustainable system of scholarly communication and...
THE IMPACT OF UNIONIZATION ON MOTOR CARRIER COSTS (1997)
KERKVLIET, JOE, MCMULLEN, B. STARR
Union trucking firms have significantly different cost structures than non-union firms. Further, average costs for union firms are higher than for non-union firms even after controlling for higher...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wyoming, 1986.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wyoming, 1986.
Examining the Role of Social Isolation on Stated Preferences
John A. List, Robert P. Berrens, Alok K. Bohara, Joe Kerkvliet
Externally validating contingent valuation: an open-space survey and referendum in Corvallis, Oregon
Vossler, Christian A., Kerkvliet, Joe, Polasky, Stephen, Gainutdinova, Olesya
Efficiency and Vertical Integration: The Case of Mine-Mouth Electric Generating Plants.
This paper tests four propositions regarding the efficiency of vertical arrangements: (1) vertically integrated and nonintegrated firms allocate inputs with efficiency and (2) achieve equal technical...
Productivity Growth and Environmental Regulation in Mexican and U.S. Food Manufacturing.
Alpay, Ebru, Buccola, Steven, Kerkvliet, Joe
Many argued during the NAFTA debate that trade liberalization would favor Mexican over U.S. food processors, especially because of lax environmental laws south of the border. We find through an...
Addressing Negative Willingness to Pay in Dichotomous Choice Contingent Valuation
Alok Bohara, Joe Kerkvliet, Robert Berrens
This paper has four purposes. First, we outline the controversy surroundingthe issue of negative willingness to pay (WTP)in contingent valuation (CV) studies. Second,we use Monte Carlo simulation to...
The Determinants of Coal Contract Duration for the Powder River Basin
Joe Kerkvliet, Jason F. Shogren
We examine coal contract duration using data on utility coal buyers and supplying mines in the Powder River Basin. Duration determinants are (1) measures of buyers' and sellers' transaction-specific...
Measuring the Multilateral Allocation of Rents: Wyoming Low-Sulfur Coal
Scott E. Atkinson, Joe Kerkvliet
This article develops a general econometric procedure for determining the amount of rent captured by buyers and sellers of goods produced under any market structure. We use this technique to measure...
Dual Measures of Monopoly and Monopsony Power: An Application to Regulated Electric Utilities.
Atkinson, Scott E, Kerkvliet, Joe
The inefficiency from monopoly pricing, monopsony pricing, and other institutional factors should be simultaneously estimated to avoid misspecification. Estimation of a behavioral profit function,...
The Impact of Unionization on Motor Carrier Costs.
Kerkvliet, Joe, McMullen, B Starr
Union trucking firms have significantly different cost structures than nonunion firms. Further, average costs for union firms are higher than for nonunion firms even after controlling for higher...
Langpap, Christian, Kerkvliet, Joe
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is one of the most controversial pieces of environmental legislation. Part of the controversy stems from doubts about its effectiveness in generating improvements in...
Allocating Conservation Resources under the Endangered Species Act
Langpap, Christian, Kerkvliet, Joe
The necessity to develop a priority system to guide the allocation of resources to the conservation of endangered species is widely recognized. The economic theory of biodiversity has established a...
Hunt, Gary L., Kerkvliet, Joe, Plantinga, Andrew
We empirically investigate the effects of the Northwest Forest Plan on two widely-used economic indicators: employment growth and net migration. We find weak evidence that that setting aside 10...
Allocating Conservation Resources under the Endangered Species Act
Langpap, Christian, Kerkvliet, Joe
The necessity to develop a priority system to guide the allocation of resources to the conservation of endangered species is widely recognized. The economic theory of biodiversity has established a...
The Hedging of an Uncertain Future Foreign Currency Cash Flow
Kerkvliet, Joe, Moffett, Michael H.
This paper derives the optimal hedge of an uncertain (unknown quantity) future foreign currency cash flow. This more general optimal hedge includes the traditional hedge for a certain (known...