Browsing by Author "Haight, Robert G."

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    Cooperative Management of Invasive Species: A Dynamic Nash Bargaining Approach
    Cobourn, Kelly M.; Amacher, Gregory S.; Haight, Robert G. (2019-04)
    We use a Nash bargaining framework to examine scope for bargaining in invasive species problems where spread depends on the employment of costly controls. Municipalities bargain over a transfer payment that slows spread but requires an infested municipality to forgo nonmarket benefits from the host species. We find that when the uninfested municipality has a relative bargaining power advantage, bargaining may attain the first-best solution. However, in many cases a short-term bargaining agreement is unlikely to succeed, which suggests a role for higher levels of government to facilitate long-term agreements even when the details are left to municipalities to negotiate.