Estimating the Welfare Cost of Somali Piracy
| Title: | Estimating the Welfare Cost of Somali Piracy |
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| Authors: | Tim Besley; Thiemo Fetzer; Hannes Mueller |
| Contributors: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Source: | http://www.theigc.org/sites/default/files/Besley%20Fetzer%20Mueller%20Piracy%20Final.pdf. |
| Publication Year: | 2013 |
| Collection: | CiteSeerX |
| Description: | This paper estimates the effect of piracy attacks on shipping costs using a unique data set on shipping contracts in the dry bulk market. We look at shipping routes whose shortest path exposes them to piracy attacks and find that the increase in attacks in 2008 lead to around a ten percent increase in shipping costs. We use this estimate to get a sense of the welfare loss imposed by piracy. Our intermediate estimate suggests that the creation of $120 million of revenue for pirates in the Somalia area led to a welfare loss of over $1.5 billion. |
| Document Type: | text |
| File Description: | application/pdf |
| Language: | English |
| Relation: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.278.4653; http://www.theigc.org/sites/default/files/Besley%20Fetzer%20Mueller%20Piracy%20Final.pdf |
| Availability: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.278.4653; http://www.theigc.org/sites/default/files/Besley%20Fetzer%20Mueller%20Piracy%20Final.pdf |
| Rights: | Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
| Accession Number: | edsbas.AB041D62 |
| Database: | BASE |