caa a22 4500 386316686 CHVBK 20180307111607.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198812 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0081305200017647 doi S0081305200017647 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0081305200017647 A Welfare Analysis of Port User Fees: The Case of Grain and Soybean Exports [Elektronische Daten] [E. Wesley F. Peterson, Hector Viscencio-Brambila, Stephen Fuller] User fees have become a popular means of financing public services, including certain transportation facilities. The Water Resources Development Act of 1986 includes provisions for user fees to finance part of the costs of operations, maintenance, and new construction of the U.S. port system. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the welfare implications of this legislation. An analytical model is developed and used to estimate the impact of port user fees on grain and oilseed producers, consumers, and the government. The results of the analysis indicate that the user fee has a relatively small effect on producer welfare and that the efficiency gains resulting from the replacement of the government subsidy for port operations, maintenance, and new construction with a user fee are negligible. Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1988 user fee nationallicence transportation costs nationallicence social welfare nationallicence international trade nationallicence Peterson E. Wesley F. Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University aut Viscencio-Brambila Hector Food and Resource Economics Department, University of Florida aut Fuller Stephen Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University aut Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics Cambridge University Press 20/2(1988-12), 101-108 0081-3052 20:2<101 1988 20 AAE https://doi.org/10.1017/S0081305200017647 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0081305200017647 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Peterson E. Wesley F. Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Viscencio-Brambila Hector Food and Resource Economics Department, University of Florida aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fuller Stephen Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics Cambridge University Press 20/2(1988-12), 101-108 0081-3052 20:2<101 1988 20 AAE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge