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| Mettepenningen, Evy; Beckmann, Volker; Eggers, Jorg. |
| Despite a total budget increase for rural development in the new programming period (2007- 2013), for most older Member States in the now expanded European Union the multi-annual spending plan for the period 2007-2013 predicts a substantial decrease of the budget for rural development and thus for agri-environmental schemes (AESs). It can be assumed that nothing or only part of this loss could be compensated by national funds in most countries. Therefore designing more efficient national governance structures for AESs, which decrease public transaction costs (TCs), would be an appropriate answer to this problem. The objective of this paper is to define the factors influencing these public TCs, because then appropriate action can be taken to reduce them. A... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Public transaction costs; Agrienvironmental schemes; Environmental Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44321 |
