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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
OPTIMAL REGULATION UNDER ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION AND RISK AVERSION WITH AN APPLICATION TO POLLUTION CONTROL
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| Autores: |
Bontems, Philippe
Thomas, Alban
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| Data: |
2001-05-10
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| Ano: |
2001
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| Palavras-chave: |
Environmental Economics and Policy
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| Resumo: |
We consider a general model of regulation for a risk-averse agent who observes her private-information parameter after the contract is signed. The latter specifies a quota for input used in production, whose decomposition among different production stages is unknown to the regulator. We characterize the optimal solution to the regulator problem, under general assumptions on net expected social surplus and the agent utility function. We apply the model to the case of pollution control by an environmental agency, where the agent is a risk-averse farmer facing production risk because of nitrogen leaching, and the private-information parameter measures the soil capacity in retaining nitrogen. The farmer sequential decision model is estimated on French crop production data and the results are then used to calibrate and simulate the optimal contract.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
2496
http://purl.umn.edu/20727
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
American Agricultural Economics Association>2001 Annual meeting, August 5-8, Chicago, IL
Selected Paper
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| Formato: |
39
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