PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Atallah, Shady S.
TI  - Spatial Bioinvasion Externalities with Heterogeneous Landowner Preferences: A Two-Agent Bioeconomic Model
AID  - 10.3368/le.101.2.112024-0209
DP  - 2025 Apr 01
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 262--283
VI  - 101
IP  - 2
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/101/2/262.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/101/2/262.full
AB  - Preference heterogeneity among landowners managing transboundary resources can determine the production of externalities across their lands. I test this hypothesis in the context of an invasive species affecting two forest landowners, where one values their property for recreation and the other produces timber. Using a spatially explicit first-mover repeated game, I find that the social cost of the externality is greatest when a bioinvasion starts on the recreation property. Except for species with fast long-distance dispersal, the optimal subsidy is nonuniform, targeting the landowner who acts as the weaker link, regardless of where a bioinvasion starts.