Keywords
Invasive; Nonindigenous; Risk; Species
Abstract
This thesis investigates the optimal ex-ante mix of self-protection and self-insurance technologies employed to reduce the risk of biological invaders in the presence of exogenous variables within the probability and damage functions. This is accomplished by using a theoretical endogenous risk model that extends previously developed frameworks. This thesis contributes to the previous work in two ways. (1) Employing a general framework with simultaneous decision making over self-protection and self-insurance, this thesis analyzes how each parameter including income, the costs of each activity, an exogenous factor that affects only the probability of an invasion, and a separate exogenous factor that affects only the damages influence the level of self-protection and self-insurance. (2) The comparative static results are derived in the benchmark case of risk neutral preferences and qualitatively compared to an extended case of risk averse preferences. The results of the analysis indicate that under risk neutral preferences the signs of the comparative statics are unambiguous while under risk aversion the results are not clearly defined. Thus, the ambiguity of signs in the latter case can be attributed to the unobservable utility terms present under risk averse preferences. Therefore, it can be concluded that the model is not capable of yielding a decision criteria that will hold universally because the results are dependent on the nature of the risk averse curve
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Graduation Date
2004
Semester
Fall
Advisor
Finnoff, David
Degree
Master of Arts (M.A.)
College
College of Business Administration
Department
Economics
Degree Program
Economics
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0000156
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0000156
Language
English
Release Date
December 2004
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
STARS Citation
Safford, Pamela, "A Comparative Static Analysis For Invasive Species Management Under Risk Neutral Preferences" (2004). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 238.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/238