Data/hora: 07/06/2024 02:48:27

Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | Agri-environmental Regulation on the Back of a Data Envelopment Analysis
Autores: | White,   Benedict; Raguragavan,   Jananee; Chambers,   Robert G.
Data: | 2008-01-14
Ano: | 2007
Palavras-chave: | Agri-environmental policy; Distance functions; Efficiency; Mechanism design; Environmental Economics and Policy; Q12.
Resumo: | A land retirement policy whereby land is taken out of agriculture and converted to natural vegetation or forestry has the potential to reduce environmental damage related to dryland salinity in Western Australia. This paper uses some recent results in the theory of directional distance functions (Chambers and Fare, 2004) to analyse alternative policy designs for a land retirement scheme. The results indicate that a fixed price scheme is inefficient compared with a first-best solution, but performs adequately. A scheme requiring a fixed proportion of area retired by all producers is inefficient. A separating solution, based on mechanism design, gives a small but significant increase in welfare compared to a fixed price scheme.
Tipo: | Conference Paper or Presentation
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

28806

http://purl.umn.edu/7963

Editor: | AgEcon Search

Relação:

Agricultural Economics Society&gt;81st Annual Conference, April 2-4, 2007, Reading University, UK

Conference Paper

Formato:

19

application/pdf