John P. Hoehn

Michigan State University | MSU · Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics

The analysis evaluates factors that motivate voter support for eminent domain reform. Economic models emphasize property ownership as a motivation for eminent domain restrictions (0045 and 0070). Other research and court opinions point to ideology and vulnerability to takings as motivations for eminent domain reform. The empirical analysis tests th...

One unresolved issue arising from the use of eminent domain power involves how the perceived benefits and costs of eminent domain power affect people's positions on the reform of eminent domain and police power law. The paper addresses this issue by estimating a voting model that explains voters' decisions on eminent domain and police power reform...

This analysis examined optimum supply formula (OSF) in the tart cherry industry. The OSF is a tool for stabilizing market prices as authorized by a federal market order (FMO). The current OSF sets free sales of tart cherries in a given harvest year, or optimum supply volume (OSV), equal to the average sales of the three prior years plus 10 percent....

Stated choice experiments about ecosystem changes involve complex information. This study examines whether the format in which ecosystem information is presented to respondents affects stated choice outcomes. Our analysis develops a utility-maximizing model to describe respondent behavior. The model shows how alternative questionnaire formats alter...

Researchers using questionnaires to elicit preferences must decide whether to include response options that allow respondents to express "no opinion." Using a split-sample design, we explore the implications of alternative answer formats including and not including no-opinion responses in an attribute-based choice experiment. The results indicate t...

We analyze the price determinants of specialty coffees traded at e-auctions. We hypothesize that since specialty coffees are a highly differentiated product, prices will be determined by both sensory and reputation attributes. To test our hypotheses, we estimate a hedonic price function using data from Central and South American e-auctions and calc...

A two-sector, country-wide model of production, consumption, and regulation is developed to examine the linkages between water use and economic activity. The model indicates that water use is influenced by economic scale, composition, national income, openness to trade, and climatic factors. The relationships described by the model are tested using...

Agricultural zoning and land-use restrictions are long-standing approaches for controlling non-agricultural development. We provide a theoretical explanation for variation in agricultural landowner support for zoning based on landowners’ positions—whether a landowner is a buyer or a seller—in the land market. Hypotheses derived from the model are t...

The US specialty coffee industry has grown from $1 billion in 1990 to $11 billion in 2006 and is expected to continue to grow into the foreseeable future. This growth particularly depends on prices coordinating the specialty coffee supply chain through two-way information exchange between roasters and producers. We analyze the determinants of speci...

We analyze price and quality information at the procurement level in the specialty coffee supply chain using data from small and large volume e-auctions. Hedonic price equations reveal that the Cup of Excellence auction is a more differentiated market disclosing more information about coffee values associated with ratings, rankings, quantities avai...

Abstract Atwo-sector, country-wide model of production, consumption, and regulation is developed to examine,the linkages between,water use and economic activity. The model indicates that water use is influenced by economic scale, composition, national income, openness to trade, and climatic factors. The relationships described by the ,model are tes...

The purpose of this special issue of Ecological Economics is to elucidate the state-of-the-art and science of environmental benefit transfer and to assist in the design and reporting of future benefit estimation research. Compiling the insights of thirty-two international experts from seven countries, the special issue reviews the latest developmen...

The analysis develops an approach for dealing with selection effects in the meta regression of ecological values. The approach is based on Heckman's [Heckman, James. 1979. Sample Selection Bias as a Specification Error. Econometrica 47 (1):153–161.] two stage procedure and is adaptable to cross section and unbalanced panel data. The approach identi...

All rights reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. Acknowledgements: The research reported here was supported in part by the Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Program, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency. The authors are s...

Agricultural zoning and land use restrictions are long-standing approaches for controlling non-agricultural development. Agricultural landowners may contest agricultural zoning if they expect zoning to reduce land prices on restricted land. However, it is common to find agricultural landowners on both sides of this issue. A prevailing economic expl...

The analysis distinguishes two types of standards for defining organic produce; process standards and product standards. Process standards define organic products by the method and means of production. Product standards define organic by the physical quality of the end product. The National Organic Program (NOP) uses process standards as the basis...

Hedonic research indicates that residential property values are reduced by increased proximity to hazardous waste sites, a measure of diminished environmental quality. Standard hedonic procedures measure proximity by the linear distance between a property and a waste site of interest. A sample of properties is then used to estimate a distance-to-si...

In this chapter we present a case study of an iterative multiple-method approach to survey design and evaluation. Three types of focus groups, as well as cognitive interviews, were used to develop a survey instrument. The case study focuses on two aspects of the experience. First, the case illustrates how the information from the group discussions...

Certified labeling for credence attributes is examined using the concepts of pooled and separating equilibria. The analysis addresses a latent credence good demand that differs from a conventional good demand by willingness to pay for the credence characteristic. Third-party certified labeling vertically differentiates the two products and a two se...

This paper describes efforts to estimate economic benefits of improved sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) suppression on the St. Marys River. By linking an economic model of recreational fishing in Michigan to fish populations in the Great Lakes, a method is illustrated for estimating economic benefits that accrue to recreational anglers when fish po...

A utility-theoretic model indicates that mitigation prices for wetland ecosystems depend on preferences and technical knowledge. Empirical analysis found gaps in respondents' knowledge about such ecosystems. Valuing wetland types requires dealing with respondents' possible misinformation, by developing tools for informing respondents or by combinin...

An analytical model is developed to examine product quality labeling. Prior to labeling all consumers are willing to pay a premium for the quality characteristic but product quality cannot be observed directly. If production costs are increasing, the total quantity produced may contain a mix of products - with and without the high-valued attribute....

Certified labeling for credence attributes is examined using the concepts of pooled and separating equilibria. Credence attributes are product features that cannot be experienced directly by consumer, features such as pesticide-free, dolphin-safe, hormone-free, and organic. Without labeling, the traded good is a mix of credence and conventional goo...

The multifunctional set of services provided by farmland complicates the task of identifying which farmland should be preserved. For this reason many states and local governments establish criteria to rank and select parcels of farmland for protection. This study examines whether criteria commonly used by state programs to guide purchases of agricu...

A stated choice model is used to estimate wetland mitigation preferences. In a split sample mail survey, a main effects design is compared to a randomized design. Although randomized designs estimate main effects less efficiently, several policy relevant interactions were found to be significant, suggesting some merits of randomized designs.

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The analysis examines how resource injury information provided by a questionnaire affects contingent valuations. A key determinant is the difference between new and prior information. Redundant information has no effect. Also, respondents have different priors so the effect of new information is uneven; information increases restoration value for s...

Hedonic pricing methods typically employ a distance-to-site variable to measure variation in exposure to environmental disamenities. Some environmental disamenities, like hazardous waste sites, may be spatially correlated with another prominent feature of the urban plain— zones of industrial activity. In these cases, failure to account for indus...

In this paper, we report the results of a pilot study on the public's willingness-to-accept wetland mitigation as in-kind compensation for the loss of an existing wetland. A choice experiment was developed to relate the acceptance of mitigation projects to the characteristics of both the lost and mitigated wetland. The wetland characteristics descr...

Focus groups and individual interviews have become accepted methods used in the initial stages of valuation research. Whether focus groups and individual interviews reveal similar valuation information has not been thoroughly studied. The research tests the hypothesis that focus groups yield the same ecosystem service information as do individual i...

A utility-theoretic model indicates that mitigation prices for wetland ecosystems depend on preferences and technical knowledge. Empirical analysis found gaps in respondents' knowledge about such ecosystmes. Valuing wetland types requires dealing with respondents' possible misinformation, by developing tools for informing respondents or by combinin...

The following report outlines the results of focus group discussions that were conducted to help researchers learn what it is about wetlands, wetland services, and wetland characteristics that matter to people. The participants were asked questions in the areas of natural resources, their prior knowledge of wetlands, wetland types, public policies...

Donor agencies invested millions of dollars in the 1980s and 1990s to improve water and wastewater services in Cairo, Egypt. An economic analysis of these investments raised several issues relevant to planning and financing similar projects. First, some service improvements have more value to households than others (i.e., a water connection was wor...

Nonmarket valuation methods have proved useful in planning and evaluating investments in water and wastewater infrastructure in developing countries. This study used contingent referendum methods to estimate household willingness to pay for each of four types of service improvements stemming from water and wastewater investments in Cairo, Egypt. An...

A 15 kV class high temperature superconducting fault current limiter was developed as part of a Department of Energy Superconductivity Partnership Initiative (SPI) Phase II effort. This is an inductive/electronic fault current limiter (FCL) that can double as a fast sub-cycle solid state breaker. The said device was shipped to Southern California E...

Respondents are heterogeneous in their prior information about resource injury. The analysis derives an updating model of how heterogeneous respondents incorporate new information contained in resource injury descriptions. The analysis confirms that the sign of the information effect is determined by the difference between new and prior information...

Obtaining economically consistent values for changes in low probability health risks continues to be a challenge for contingent valuation (CV) as well as for other valuation methods. One often cited condition for economic consistency is that estimated values be sensitive to the scope (differences in quantity or quality) of a good described in a CV...

We employ a combination of survey design and econometric techniques to explore ways to deal with health concerns in restoration projects where environmental injuries are severe. We use data from a referendum contingent valuation survey for a natural resource restoration project to demonstrate the extent to which health concerns can be controlled.

this report is to document an economic model of recreational fishing in Michigan and illustrate how the model can be used to estimate some of the economic benefits associated with fisheries management decisions. The illustration presents estimates of some of

The various devices currently being constructed for electric power and high-energy physics applications demand different performance, cost, and geometry requirements of high-temperature superconductors. At Intermagnetics General Corporation, four types of high-temperature superconductors (powder-in-tube Bi-2223, surface-coated Bi-2212, powder-in-tu...

All states in the Great Lakes region of the United States, as well as the Canadian province of Ontario, issue some form of public health advisory to warn sport anglers about potential risks from chemical residues in fish. Most of these advisory programs tell anglers which sites have been monitored and found to contain fish with unsafe levels of che...

Sustainable investments in urban infr astructure present major analytica l and management challenges. Where citizens' needs are addressed and real ben efits are produced, infr astructure investments contribute fundamentally to the quality of life and the economic development of urban areas. These investments can also be financi ally viable. Where c...

The high energy physics experiment known as the Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS), which is intended for the study of neutrinos, will incorporate a large particle detector system. The detector employs an analyzing magnetic field generated by magnetizing an array of steel plates, called absorbers, with a current-carrying coil. We hav...

The manuscript summarizes the results of a travel cost model developed for recreational angling in Michigan. The model and method are briefly described. The discussion focusses on how Great Lakes trout and salmon catch rates were related to angler behavior. The model is used to value changes in trout and salmon catch rates at Great Lakes fishing si...

Significant progress has been made in the development of Ag-clad BSCCO conductors, which makes them attractive for electrical power and high-field magnet applications. Long conductors of up to several hundred meters in length and with high critical current densities have been fabricated by the powder-in-tube technique. For efficient use of these co...

This analysis examines an innovative approach to transportation policy in Curitiba, Brazil. Curitiba is a city of 1.6 million residents that has grown fourfold in the last 30 years. Unlike many cities, quality of life and transportation has not been a casualty of growth. Curitiba's transportation system actively helps residents obtain the benefits...

Long lengths of Ag-clad mono- and multicore BSCCO tapes were fabricated by the powder-in-tube technique. The critical current density (Jc) of 125-m-long monocore tapes was ≈12,000 A/cm2 (critical current, Ic ≈20 A) at 77 K. A 230-m-long 37-filament tape carried an Ic of 14 A (corresponding to a Jc of ≈10,000 A/cm2). Pancake-shaped coils were formed...

Pb0.4Bi1.8Sr2Ca2.2Cu3Ox (Bi-2223) precursor powder was prepared by a solid-state reaction of carbonates and oxides of lead, bismuth, strontium, calcium, and copper, and the powder was then used to fabricate silver-clad tapes by the powder-in-tube technique. Transport critical current density (Jc) values>4×104 A/cm2 at 77K and 2×105 A/cm2 at 4.2 and...

After fabricating long lengths (30–100 m) of Ag-clad Bi-2223 tapes by the powder-in-tube process, we co-wound them into pancake-shaped coils by the “wind-and-react” approach. Test magnets were then fabricated by stacking and connecting the coils in series. We then characterized the magnets at the temperatures of liquid helium (4.2 K), liquid neon (...

The powder-in-tube process has been used to fabricate long lengths of flexible, high-Jc, silver-clad Bi-2223 HTS conductors. By improving thermomechanical processing and precursor powder preparation, we have succeeded in achieving Jc values of≥4×104 A/cm2 at liquid nitrogen (77K) temperature and >105 A/cm2 at liquid helium (4.2K) and liquid neon (2...

Bi-2223 high Tc superconductors have been fabricated by the powder-in-tube technique to yield long lengths of flexible silver clad composites. Short samples sectioned from the long lengths were characterized by measuring their transport properties and evaluating their microstructure. The dc transport critical current densities measured on short mon...

Bi-2223 precursor powders were prepared via a solid-state reaction using carbonates and oxides of Bi, Pb, Sr, Ca, and Cu. Results indicate that an in-situ reaction between constituent phases with tho formation of a transient liquid that is consumed during final heat treatment, is essential to obtain increased density with greater connectivity betwe...

A theoretical framework for understanding substitution and complementary effects between environmental programs is derived. A multiple program valuation function is specified and its structure analyzed. A maximum likelihood estimator is derived to estimate the parameters of the valuation function using referendum-type, contingent valuation data. Th...

A utility theoretic model is derived to examine personal risk and environmental perceptions as determinants of households' evaluations of groundwater protection. Perceived severity of health effects and non-use environmental effects are important determinants for both rural and urban households. Interpersonal altruism is an important determinant fo...

Using improved processing conditions, we have succeeded in increasing the transport critical current density (J c ) of powder‐in‐tube fabricated silver sheathed Bi‐Pb‐Sr‐Ca‐Cu‐O superconducting tapes. J c values at zero field now exceed 1.6×10⁵ A/cm² (I c ∼164 A) at 4.2 K and 1.3×10⁵ A/cm² (I c ∼133 A) at...

This paper reports progress in the achievement of high transport Jc in 3–5 cm long melt processed polycrystalline Y1Ba2Cu3O7−δ samples. Optical and scanning electron micrographs show apparently clean platelet connection across high angle boundaries between grains (domains) composed of parallel ab platelets. Critical current densities determined by...

Critical current densities up to 24 000 A/cm² (I c ∼23.6 A) at 77 K, zero field, have been measured in short tape samples of silver‐sheathed Bi‐Pb‐Sr‐Ca‐Cu‐O superconductors made by the powder‐in‐tube technique. These samples carried 3000 A/cm² at 1 T and 1000 A/cm² at 2 T, also at liquid‐nitrogen temperature. A rep...

A hedonic based interregional wage-rent model is used to estimate the local area damages of Superfund sites. The damages are statistically significant and used to rank the clean up efforts of Superfund sites. The rank depends on total damages, local population, and number of sites located in the area.

A theoretically consistent framework is developed for valuing the multidimensional impacts of environmental policy. Conventional benefit estimates are shown to be biased because of the presence of substitution and complementarity effects in valuing policy impacts. Procedures are developed for implementing a valid framework. Consistent with theory,...

One method used for overcoming the problem of preference revelation for safety improvements is to infer willingness-to-pay from consumer choice of private goods (Blomquist 1979, Dardis 1980, Hammitt 1986, Ippolito and Ippolito 1984). This strategy may be useful for estimating willingness-to-pay for food safety because in recent years information on...

Procedures are developed for estimating the economic damages imposed on small rural communities when groundwater becomes contaminated. Net economic damages are the sum of producer and consumer surplus. In the case of nitrate contamination, annual damages for communities typical of rural Michigan range from $40 to $330 per household. Damage levels w...

Procedures are developed for estimating the economic damages imposed on small rural communities when groundwater becomes contaminated. Net economic damages are the sum of producer and consumer surplus. In the case of nitrate contamination, annual damages for communities typical of rural Michigan range from $40 to $330 per household. Damage levels w...

Conventional benefit cost analysis (BCA) procedures are invalid for evaluating complex policy. Where the number of policy components under consideration is very large, conventional IVS procedures would provide a systematically biased filter and, as a result, a wastefully large portfolio of policies may be implemented. This chapter presents the vali...

Filter strips are an important addition to farm conservation programs. Farmers' willingness to participate in a 10-year filter strip program were measured using contingent valuation survey methods. Data indicate that the yearly payment offered to participants, farmers' preferences, and opportunity costs make a difference in their decisions about pa...

Valuation of site-specific environmental services by the weak complementarity approach is often precluded by insufficient price variation. To circumvent this problem, demand and price are respecified in terms of quality adjusted prices. The resulting framework demonstrates that variation in environmental quality alone enables demand estimation. An...

Implicit markets capture compensation for intraurban and interregional differe nces in amenities and yield differences in housing prices and wages. These pecuniary differences become preference-based weights in a qual ity-of-life index. Hedonic equations are estimated using microdata fr om the 1980 Census and assembled county-based amenity data on...

ABSTRACT This paper develops a general multimarket hedonic model appropriate for a national, interregional study of wages, housing prices, and location-specific amenities. The model encompasses the effects of interregional location, intraurban location, and city size. Typically, hedonic studies focus on a single market such as labor or housing and...

Standard economic concepts are used to develop a model of individual behavior when subject to the constraints of the contingent valuation choice context. The model yields refutable consequences that are consistent with previously reported empirical findings, including some that have been thought to be anomalous. The model is used to show that diffe...

Fisheries management involves trade-offs across recreational, commercial, and aesthetic goods. Contingent valuation assists in quantifying these trade-offs by eliciting resource values directly from the individuals who are affected by resource management. Recent research identifies three sources of potential error in contingent valuation design: (1...

Reviews the extensive literature aimed at calculating willingness to pay for non-market goods. Concludes that all the techniques used are imperfect but in different ways. The next stage is a systematic conceptual and empirical exploration of the various influences on the performance of contingent markets. -T.O'Riordan

Replaced with revised version of paper 08/06/10.

This book was originally published by Westview Press, Boulder CO, 1995.