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The Spatial Economics of Transportation Middlemen in the Wildlife Trade.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Spatial Economics of Transportation Middlemen in the Wildlife Trade./
Author:	Rushlow, Jennifer R.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
Description:	165 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-04A.
Subject:	Hunting. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28648242
ISBN:	9798538152483

The Spatial Economics of Transportation Middlemen in the Wildlife Trade.
Rushlow, Jennifer R.

The Spatial Economics of Transportation Middlemen in the Wildlife Trade. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 165 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wyoming, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Middlemen are often found working in developing country resource markets providing transportation of goods from rural harvesters to urban markets and supplying training and equipment for harvesting. These middlemen can affect harvest levels and prices in these markets, and understanding these effects is critical for understanding the behavior of the harvesters and anticipating responses to any policy implemented to protect resources. I specifically focus on the role of middlemen in the wildlife trade and comment on the unique features and potential damages the wildlife trade presents. In this dissertation I present four chapters on the role of middlemen and their market power in wildlife harvesting. The first chapter is a review of the literature on the economics of wildlife hunting, trading, and consumption - including a section on middlemen in other resource markets. I also identify key features which can distinguish models of wildlife harvesting from general non-timber forest product (NTFP) models and discuss the known drivers of wildlife hunting and consumption.In the second chapter, I develop a spatial model of middlemen who transport wildlife from hunters located at villages increasingly far from the market. I use a case study of bat hunting on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia to parameterize the model and find numerical solutions for the harvesting and price levels of bats over time. I compare a case where there are no middlemen on the island to two different cases of middlemen - monopsonist and competitive - to show how middlemen and market power affect the market for bats.The third chapter is a more in-depth look at the effect of competition among middlemen across villages. Using a variation of the model developed in the second chapter, I model hunters and individual middlemen, with two different cases of market structure. In the first market structure, the middlemen enter the market sequentially, choosing both the price paid to hunters and the quantity purchased. The second market structure represents simultaneous moves by middlemen, where a spatial Nash equilibrium is approximated using iterated best response. The fourth chapter summarizes the results and identifies next steps from the previous chapters.

ISBN: 9798538152483Subjects--Topical Terms:

631526
Hunting.
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Market power

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