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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | Does tendering conservation contracts with performance payments generate additional benefits?
Autores: | Schilizzi,   Steven; Breustedt,   Gunnar; Latacz-Lohmann,   Uwe.
Data: | 2011-02-18
Ano: | 2011
Palavras-chave: | Conservation tenders; Auctions; Incentive contracts; Agricultural policy; Environmental policy; Market-based instruments; Experimental economics; Environmental Economics and Policy; Land Economics/Use; C92; D44; D82; D86; H57; Q24; Q28.
Resumo: | Policy makers aiming to get private landholders to supply non-marketed environmental services may need to provide efficient economic incentives. Two ideas have been explored to achieve this: linking contract payments to environmental outcomes and submitting the contracts to competitive tender. This paper investigates whether there are any gains to be had by combining the potential benefits of both approaches. Landholders’ risk aversion to only partially controlled outcomes may offset incentive effects if the fall in participation outweighs any increases in individual effort. Controlled lab experiments were designed on the basis of a theoretical model and were run in two countries, with varying rates of payments linked to environmental outcomes. Results suggest that it can be counterproductive in terms of expected environmental outcomes to combine tenders with incentive payments, especially when the target population is known to be risk-averse.
Tipo: | Working or Discussion Paper
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://purl.umn.edu/100883

Relação:

University of Western Australia, School of Agricultural and Resource Economics&gt;Working Papers

Working Paper

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Formato: | 39