Resource Competition among Plants: From Maximizing Individuals to Community Structure (2008)
Evidence indicates that natural systems worldwide are threatened by increasing economic activity, suggesting a need for improved understanding of how ecosystems and economies interact. The model of...
Natural monopoly regulation : pronciples and practice / Sanford V. Berg, John Tschirhart (1988)
Berg, Sanford V, Tschirhart, John
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Behavior of a Monopoly Offering Interruptible Service
A monopoly offering service to its customers on an interruptible basis has the option of curtailing delivery of this service when available supply falls short of demand. Shortages occur because of...
Club theory: Thirty years later
This paper presents a self-contained survey of club theory with an emphasis on the contributions of the last fifteen years. Club goods are contrasted with pure public goods, and equilibrium and...
Bank commercial loan fair value practices
John Tschirhart, James O'Brien, Michael Moise, Emily Yang
Recent accounting changes, for the first time, permit the use of fair value in the primary financial statements for held-to-maturity (HTM) bank loans. While the use of fair value has historically...
Club Theory: Thirty Years Later.
Sandler, Todd, Tschirhart, John
This paper presents a self-contained survey of club theory with an emphasis on the contributions of the last fifteen years. Club goods are contrasted with pure public goods, and equilibrium and...
A Market Test for Natural Monopoly in Local Exchange.
Berg, Sanford V, Tschirhart, John
Is the incumbent local exchange carrier (LEC) a natural monopolist? The analysis indicates that the LEC cost function is not supportable: LECs appear to be either nonsustainable natural monopolies or...
The Public Utility Regulatory Policy Act and Regulatory Behavior.
Nowell, Clifford, Tschirhart, John
The 1978 Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act set energy conservation and efficient, equitable electricity rates as national goals. The decision on whether to implement innovative rates to meet...
Ecosystems, externalities, and economies
Thomas Crocker, John Tschirhart
This paper incorporates an ecosystem model into a model of a simple economy. The decisionmaking agents in the ecosystem are individual organisms aggregated to the species level. A species may provide...
Efficient ecosystem services and naturalness in an ecological/economic model
Thomas Eichner, John Tschirhart
In an integrated economic/ecological model, the economy benefits from ecosystem services that include: (1) the consumptive use of a harvested species, (2) the non-consumptive use of popular species,...
Takings, Compensation and Endangered Species Protection on Private Lands.
Innes, Robert, Polasky, Stephen, Tschirhart, John
Preserving endangered species on private land benefits the public, but may confer cost on landowners if property is 'taken.' Government compensation to landowners can offset costs, although the...
Measuring the Impact of Asymmetric Information: An Example from Energy Conservation.
Settle, Chad, Tschirhart, John
Asymmetric information has occupied a central role in theoretical microeconomics for almost two decades, but little has been done to ascertain when it matters in practice. The regulatory problem of...
Non Utility Power, Alternative Regulatory Regimes and Stranded Investment.
Wen, Shiow-Ying, Tschirhart, John
The electric industry is experiencing increasing competition in generation encouraged by non utility generators and regulatory agencies. An electric utility's problem of satisfying stochastic demand...
Entry into the Electric Power Industry.
Entry of new firms into the electric power industry is becoming commonplace. The entrants typically are unregulated firms that compete with regulated electric utilities only in the generation stage...
Synopsis: The oft-cited analogies between ecological and economic systems are exploited to develop a many-species model of population dynamics. In economies, markets are the fundamental institutions...
Revenue Sharing as an Incentive in an Agency Problem: An example from the National Football League
Scott E. Atkinson, Linda R. Stanley, John Tschirhart
We consider a professional sports league's use of a well-defined incentive mechanism, revenue sharing, to encourage the desired behavior of teams in the league. The incentive mechanism works by...
Hedonic Prices for a Nondurable Good: The Case of Breakfast Cereals.
Stanley, Linda R, Tschirhart, John
Numerous studies have estimated hedonic price functions for durable goods. In this paper, the authors apply the methodology to breakfast cereals, a nondurable good. They employ maximum likelihood to...
Flexible Modelling of Time to Failure in Risky Careers.
Atkinson, Scott E, Tschirhart, John
Failure time models correcting for heterogeneity are used to explain the length of participation in a risky career. Using data from t he National Football League, the authors first employ a class of...
David Finnoff, Aaron Strong, John Tschirhart
Across western North America, invasive plant species and elevated levels of nitrogen are threatening the productivity of rangelands. A bioeconomic model of stocking cattle on these rangelands is used...
Linking dynamic economic and ecological general equilibrium models
Finnoff, David, Tschirhart, John
Although ecosystems provide myriad services to economies, only one service is considered in most renewable-resource models. The general equilibrium bioeconomic model introduced here admits a second...
Finnoff, David, Strong, Aaron, Tschirhart, John
The material contained herein is supplementary to the article named in the title and published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
Protecting an Endangered Species While Harvesting Its Prey in a General Equilibrium Ecosystem Model
David Finnoff, John Tschirhart
Because endangered species are in predator/prey, competitive, and other relationships with many species who share their habitat, efficient conservation requires simultaneously considering the needs...
Protecting Endangered Species in the United States
Shogren,Jason F., Tschirhart,John
This collection of original essays by economists, biologists and political scientists has a common theme: that protecting species at risk while safeguarding social order is a policy challenge that...
Protecting Endangered Species in the United States
Shogren,Jason F., Tschirhart,John
This collection of original essays by economists, biologists and political scientists has a common theme: that protecting species at risk while safeguarding social order is a policy challenge that...
Berg,Sanford V., Tschirhart,John
Considered the cutting edge of microeconomic theory in the 1970s, natural monopoly research remains an active and fertile field. Policy makers and regulators have begun to implement entry and pricing...
On the Use of 'Adders' by Public Utility Commissions
State public utility commissions are developing programs to reduce emissions from electric generation facilities. Programs call for minimizing the total cost of meeting future demands for power,...
Contributions of Neoclassical Economics to Public Utility Analysis
Sanford V. Berg, John Tschirhart
Neoclassical economics, the dominant economics paradigm, has influenced and been influenced by developments in regulated industries. We identify major theoretical and empirical accomplishments,...