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The Price Elasticity of African Elephant Poaching

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dc.contributor.authorDo, Quy-Toan
dc.contributor.authorLevchenko, Andrei A.
dc.contributor.authorMa, Lin
dc.contributor.authorBlanc, Julian
dc.contributor.authorDublin, Holly
dc.contributor.authorMilliken, Tom
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-03T20:11:42Z
dc.date.available2024-01-03T20:11:42Z
dc.date.issued2020-04-30
dc.description.abstractThe objective of this paper is to provide an estimate of the elasticity of elephant poaching with respect to prices. Ivory being a storable commodity subjects its price to Hotelling’s no-arbitrage condition, hence allowing identification of the supply curve. The price of gold, one of many commodities used as stores of value, is thus used as an instrument for ivory prices.The supply of illegal ivory is found to be price inelastic with an elasticity of 0.4, with changes in consumer prices passing-through to prices faced by producers at a rate close to unity. Estimations based on a number of alternative estimation approaches all confirm the conclusion that supply is inelastic. The paper ends with a brief discussionon of what such a finding implies for elephant conservation policies.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/40826
dc.identifier.issn1564-698X (online)
dc.identifier.issn0258-6770 (print)
dc.identifier.urihttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/40826
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherPublished by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subjectELEPHANT POACHING
dc.subjectPRICE ELASTICITY
dc.subjectIVORY TRADE
dc.subjectSTORAGE OF VALUE
dc.subjectWILDLIFE CONSERVATION POLICY
dc.subjectIVORY VALUE
dc.titleThe Price Elasticity of African Elephant Poachingen
dc.typeJournal Article
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.associatedcontenthttps://academic.oup.com/wber/article/35/3/545/5827188 Journal website (version of record)
okr.crossref.titleThe Price Elasticity of African Elephant Poaching
okr.date.disclosure2020-04-30
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Journal Article
okr.identifier.doi10.1093/wber/lhaa008
okr.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1596/40826
okr.language.supporteden
okr.pagenumber545–562
okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.topicEnvironment::Wildlife Resources
okr.topicEnvironment::Environmental Economics & Policies
okr.topicLaw and Development::Environmental & Natural Resources Law
okr.topicEnvironment::Ecosystems and Natural Habitats
okr.volume35 (3)
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