The Price Elasticity of African Elephant Poaching

The 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 commod...

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Main Authors: Do, Quy-Toan, Levchenko, Andrei A., Ma, Lin, Blanc, Julian, Dublin, Holly, Milliken, Tom
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/358291518460602605/The-price-elasticity-of-African-elephant-poaching
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29369