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Paavola , Jouni; Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP); Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds; j.paavola@leeds.ac.uk; Healey, John R.; School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography, Bangor University ; j.healey@bangor.ac.uk; Jones, Julia P.G.; School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography, Bangor University ; julia.jones@bangor.ac.uk; Baker, Timothy R.; School of Geography, University of Leeds; t.r.baker@leeds.ac.uk. |
Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) has received strong support as a major component of future global climate change policy. The financial mechanism of REDD+ is payment for the ecosystem service of carbon sequestration in tropical forests that is expected to create incentives for conservation of forest cover and condition. However, the costs of achieving emissions reduction by these means remain largely unknown. We assess the set-up, implementation, and monitoring costs, i.e., collectively the transaction costs, of six of the first seven REDD+ project designs from the Peruvian Amazon and compare them with established projects in Brazil and Bolivia. The estimated costs vary greatly among the assessed projects from US$0.16 to... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Additionality; Amazon; Peru; REDD+; Set-up implementation and monitoring costs; Transaction costs. |
Ano: 2013 |
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Hanna, Susan S; Oregon State University; susan.hanna@oregonstate.edu. |
Institutions are the mechanisms that integrate the human and ecological spheres. This paper discusses the institutional challenge of integrating salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) ecosystems and human systems in ways that effectively promote resilience. Salmon recovery in the Columbia River Basin demonstrates the challenge. Despite the comprehensive scope of Basin salmon management, it has a number of problems that illustrate the difficulties of designing institutions for ecosystem and human system resilience. The critical elements of salmon ecosystem management are incentives and transaction costs, and these comprise a large piece of missing institutional infrastructure. Once the focus is placed on incentives and costs, a number of different management strategies... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis |
Palavras-chave: Columbia River Basin; Ecosystems; Human systems; Incentives; Institutions; Resilience; Salmon; Transaction costs. |
Ano: 2008 |
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Guerra, Cristina Aparecida; Pereira, Claudia Maria Miranda de Araujo. |
This work discusses the importance of the kaki productive chain in the Antônio Carlos district and its growing potentialities, analysed from the perspective of Transaction Costs Economics. The objective is to verify how the transactions between the kaki producers from the Antônio Carlos district and the downstream and upstream agents of the productive chain occur, as well as to study the governance structure in this chain. The data were obtained from semi-structured interviews carried out with seven producers, who were chosen according to criteria such as accessibility and representativity of the district’s production. It was verified that the contracts made between the producers and the downstream industry are classic and the form of governance is the... |
Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Transaction costs; Kaki; Specificity; Agribusiness; Agricultural Finance; Industrial Organization. |
Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61475 |
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van Kooten, G. Cornelis. |
Activities that remove CO2 from the atmosphere and store it in forest and agricultural ecosystems can generate CO2-offset credits that can thus substitute for CO2 emissions reduction. Are biological CO2-uptake activities competitive with CO2 offsets from reduced fossil fuel use? In this paper, it is argued that transaction costs impose a formidable obstacle to direct substitution of carbon uptake offsets for emissions reduction in trading schemes, and that separate caps should be set for emissions reduction and sink-related activities. While a tax/subsidy scheme is preferred to emissions trading for incorporating biologically-generated CO2 offsets, contracts that focus on the activity and not the amount of carbon sequestered are most likely to lead to the... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Carbon sequestration; Transaction costs; Climate change; Environmental Economics and Policy; Land Economics/Use; Q54; Q23; Q42; H23; D23. |
Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/45505 |
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Zant, Wouter. |
We investigate measurement of market integration of staple food markets in developing countries. The analysis takes the Parity Bound Model as starting point and modifies this model by parameterizing and estimating transaction costs. The specification of transaction costs takes account of transport costs, fixed source costs, fixed destination costs, ad valorem taxes & levies and seasonality an is implemented on the basis of a specific sub-sample of price differentials. Price differentials combined with predicted transaction costs enable the measurement of market integration for each location and each period. The proposed method is applied to the Malawi maize market with monthly data from June 1999 to October 2009 for 26 districts. This period covers two... |
Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Food markets; Transaction costs; Trade; Market integration; Parity Bound Model; Malawi; Africa; Crop Production/Industries; Marketing; F14; Q13. |
Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/95777 |
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Tisdell, Clement A.. |
After briefly reviewing recent economic theories about the economic welfare consequences of public provision of private commodities, this article examines the cost efficient supply of publicly provided commodities. In the light of the presence of transaction costs and bounded rationality, and consequences for the competence of public bodies, it considers whether the following are cost effective: (1) increased out-sourcing of government funded work and supplies using market and competitive mechanisms; (2) greater contestability of employment in the public sector; (3) more widespread imposition of user charges for publicly supplied commodities; and (4) the increased use of performance budgeting and accounting in the public sector. These measures are often... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Bounded rationality; Competence; Economic efficiency; Transaction costs; User charges; Public Economics. |
Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/90529 |
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Gillespie, Jeffrey M.; Bu, Angel; Boucher, Robert W.; Choi, Won-Jun. |
Calf marketing, commercial beef carcass, and natural/implant-free beef strategic alliances were examined via case study to determine alliance structure and whether each addressed risk, transaction costs, capital availability, and other concerns. All alliances were structured differently through vertical or horizontal coordination, and each had been established within the past 12 years. Alliance administrators reported that an advantage to cow-calf producers was higher cattle prices received relative to producers outside the alliances. The alliances reduced transaction costs and increased information flow among segments. Alliances did not specifically address risk or increased access to capital for technology adoption or expansion purposes. |
Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Cattle industry; Industry structure; Risk; Strategic alliances; Transaction costs; Agribusiness; Livestock Production/Industries. |
Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/62278 |
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Richetti, Alceu; Santos, Antonio Carlos dos. |
Through this present piece of work we aim at analysing the integrated system of chicken production in Minas Gerais, in accordance to the Economy in Transaction Costs, seeking especifically to describing the transaction features, administration forms as well as contractual relations. Transactions in the poultry breeding business include a high degree of specificity of actives which undepend on the breeders’ category, whether small or big, besides plenty of uncertainty, quite often , mainly when working in the integrated system via contracts. Such contracts, although they may vary in shape, take certain technical indexes into considerarion, when it comes to rewarding the integrated breeders. The chief advantages in taking part in the integration system are... |
Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Transaction costs; Vertical integration; Butcher’s chicken.. |
Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43354 |
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de Janvry, Alain; Sadoulet, Elisabeth; Winters, Paul C.; Murgai, Rinku. |
The practice of mutual insurance is conditioned by two types of transaction costs: "association" costs in establishing links with insurance partners and "extraction" costs in using these links to implement insurance transfers. Data on insurance-motivated water exchanges among households along two irrigation canals in Pakistan show that households exchange bilaterally with neighbors and family members but the majority exchange with members of tightly knit clusters. We, therefore, develop a model that endogenizes both cluster formation and the quality of insurance in the chosen cluster as a function of the relative importance of association and extraction costs. Full insurance at the community level, the object of most empirical tests of mutual insurance, is... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Mutual insurance; Transaction costs; Clusters; Risk and Uncertainty. |
Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/12905 |
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