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Economic Analysis of Wildfire Management Organizations David Rossi, Ph.D. student Department of Applied Economics Oregon State University Olli-Pekka Kuusela, Assistant Professor Department of Forest Engineering, Resources, and Management Oregon State University

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Economic Analysis of Wildfire Management

Organizations

David Rossi, Ph.D. student

Department of Applied Economics

Oregon State University

Olli-Pekka Kuusela, Assistant Professor

Department of Forest Engineering, Resources, and Management

Oregon State University

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Presentation Outline

1. Motivating Questions

2. Literature Review

• Review C+NVC model

• Extensions of the C+NVC model

3. Discrete Choice Model

4. Discussion

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Source: Hoover and Lindsay (2017); USFS Annual Budget Justifications

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Suppression's Share ofAnnual WFMAppropriations

Suppression's Share of TotalWildfire Mgmt.Expenditures

Suppression's Share of TotalUSFS Budget

Wildfire ManagementExpenditures as % of TotalUSFS Budget

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• Complements or substitutes?

o Donovan and Rideout (2003); Snider et al., (2005); Thompson et al. (2013); Rideout et al. (2008)

• Fragmented budgeting?

o Rideout et al., (2008); Minas et al., (2015)

▪ Strategic behavior?▪ Rossi and Kuusela (2019)

▪ Externalities from availability of suppression reserve funds – misaligned incentives?

o Donovan and Brown (2005); Lueck (2012)

• Satisficing behavior, “selective rationality”, or inverse probability weighting amongst IMTs?

o Holmes and Calkin (2013); Wibbenmeyer et al., (2013)

• Non-neutral risk attitudes?

o Blattenberger et al., (1984); Canton-Thompson et al. (2008); Hand et al., (2017)

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Literature Review

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Deterministic Sequential C+NVC Model with Cost Externality

Pre-suppression

Appropriations

Suppression + Reserve Funding

(all costs not internalized)

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Proposition #1

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… or given 𝜃′ 𝑡 > 0…

𝐴𝑠 𝜃 ↑, 𝑆∗ ↓𝐴𝑠 𝜃 ↑, 𝑃∗ ↑

𝐴𝑠 𝑡 ↑, 𝑆∗ ↓𝐴𝑠 𝑡 ↑, 𝑃∗ ↑

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• Shift arises from improvement in decision technology.

• The introduction of a better decision heuristic can enable the IMT to incorporate all costs with less cognitive/computational search time.

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Incorporating Stochastic outcomes and Risk Preferences in the C+NVC model

(CARA Utility)

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Pre-suppression

Appropriations

Suppression +

Downside Risk Aversion

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Incorporating Downside Risk Aversion

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Proposition #2 (when tail risk is present)

• 𝐴𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑒: 𝐴𝑠 𝑆 ↑, 𝜎2 ↓• 𝐴𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑒: 𝐴𝑠 𝑆 ↑, 𝜑 ↑. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑛…

• 𝐴𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑑: 𝐴𝑠 𝑆 ↑, 𝜑 ↓. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 …

𝐴𝑠 𝑟 ↑, 𝑆∗ ↑𝐴𝑠 𝑟 ↑, 𝑃∗ ↓

𝐴𝑠 𝑟 ↑, 𝑆∗ ↓𝐴𝑠 𝑟 ↑, 𝑃∗ ↑

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Recovering the Implicit Price of Suppression Resources

𝑠𝑖𝑡 = ቊ1 𝑖𝑓 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛0 𝑖𝑓 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑜𝑟, 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑜𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑒

Pr 𝑈 𝑠𝑖𝑡 = 1|𝐱𝑖𝑡 > 𝑈 𝑠𝑖𝑡 = 0|𝐱𝑖𝑡

Pr 𝑠𝑖𝑡 = 1 𝐱𝑖𝑡 = 𝐱𝑖𝑡′ 𝛃 + ത𝐱𝑖

′𝜻 + 𝑢𝑖 + 𝜀𝑖𝑡

• CRE-IV LPM

• Recover estimates of MWTP for each suppression resource 𝑥𝑖𝑡𝑘

𝑀𝑊𝑇𝑃𝑘 = −

𝜕 Pr 𝑠𝑖𝑡 = 1 𝐱𝑖𝑡𝜕𝑥𝑖𝑡

𝑘

𝜕 Pr 𝑠𝑖𝑡 = 1 𝐱𝑖𝑡𝜕𝑚𝑖𝑡

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Estimation Sample

• 91.5% of 22,052 ICS-209 reports filed by USFS between 2002-2013 were classified as Full Suppression days

• Each time a manager fills out a report, a “choice occasion” is observed

• 3,439 Incident Managers for USFS managed fires over this period

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Region 1 Region 2 Region 3 Region 4 Region 5 Region 6 Region 8 Region 9

USFS Region

=1 if Incident Manager chooses to suppress, =0 otherwise Mean

Incident Manager Suppression Decisions by Region of the U.S. Forest Service

Estimation Sample

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Full Suppression

Decision

{0,1}

Pre FLAME Act

Period (2002-2009)

Post-FLAME Act

Period (2010-2013)

0 13.8% 0%

1 86.2% 100%

Estimation Sample

𝜒(1)2 = 1300.00 > 𝜒𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑡

2 ; 𝑅𝑒𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝐻0 𝑜𝑓 𝑛𝑜 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛

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Full Suppression

Decision

{0,1}

Type 3,4,5 Incident

Complexity

Type 1,2 Incident

Complexity

0 12.6% 1.7%

1 87.4% 98.3%

Estimation Sample

𝜒(1)2 = 787.8849 > 𝜒𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑡

2 ; 𝑅𝑒𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝐻0 𝑜𝑓 𝑛𝑜 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛

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Distance to Wildland-Urban Intrface or Intermix areas (in meters) Mean

Distances Between Wildfire Ignition Points and the WUI by Region of the U.S. Forest Service

Estimation Sample

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Estimation Sample

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CRE-IV LPM 2nd Stage Results

Dependent Variable: Suppress {0,1} N=22,052

Coefficient St. Error

ln(ACRES) 0.1747*** (0.0220)

DESTRUCTION -0.00008 (0.00002)

GROUNDCREWS 0.0001 (0.0001)

AIRRESOURCES -0.0002*** (0.00004)

FIREENGINES -0.0007* (0.0004)

BULLDOZERS 0.0004*** (0.00007)

ln(SIZE) -0.1122*** (0.0127)

MILESINF 0.0007*** (0.0001)

percAcRetAv -0.2777*** (0.0982)

COMPLEX {0,1} 0.0422*** (0.0160)

WINDSPEED -0.00007* (0.00004)

TEMP -0.0001*** (0.00004)

RELHUM 0.0004*** (0.0001)

WUIDIST -0.000008*** (0.0000009)

POSTFLAME {0,1} 0.1457*** (0.0087)

TC_HARVEST 0.000003*** (0.0000008)

Significant Region Interactions with Monetary Attribute: R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R8, R9

Time-averaged Variables are Jointly significant @ 1% level

0.4256

0.2438

0.7529

Wald Statistic: 661.40***

Instruments: HUMAN, LIGHTNING, SUMMER, avgHUMAN, avgLIGHTNING,

avgSUMMER

𝜎

𝜎

=𝜎

𝜎 +𝜎

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Postestimation Tests

• Fixed or Random Effects? → Hausman Principle.

oPerform F-test on time-demeaned terms.

𝐻0: 𝜻 = 0𝐻𝐴: 𝜻 ≠ 0

𝜒(21)2 = 37.25 > 𝜒𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑡

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𝑝 = 0.0158 < 0.05; 𝑅𝑒𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝐻0

oEvidence suggests that unobserved manager-specific factors are systematically related to the observed determinants of suppression demand and resource use.

oPure Random Effects or RE-IV is thus invalid.

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Postestimation Tests

• IVs are strong predictors of the Endogenous Variables

• Sargan-Hansen Test of Overidentifying Restrictions (are IVs valid)?

𝐻0: 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐶𝑅𝐸𝐼𝑉 𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑟𝐻𝐴: 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐶𝑅𝐸𝐼𝑉 𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑟

𝜒(2)2 = 4.526 < 𝜒𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑡

2

𝑝 = 0.1041 > 0.1; 𝐹𝑇𝑅 𝐻0@ 10% 𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙

oEvidence suggests that Instruments are valid/exogenous (unrelated to CRE-IV residual).

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Estimates of Implicit Prices by Region

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