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Valuing ecosystem services in general equilibrium

Carbone, Jared C. - 2010

We explore the consequences of treating the multiple, non-market benefits associated with improvements in ecosystem … to pay measures of use-based ecosystem services are impacted by the changes in demand for complementary market goods …. Demand for these goods shifts due to the introduction of pollution regulations that deliver improvements in ecosystem …

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Agro-Ecosystem Productivity and the Dynamic Response to Shocks

Chavas, Jean-Paul - 2016

This paper investigates the nonlinear dynamic response to shocks, relying on a threshold quantile autoregression (TQAR) model as a flexible representation of stochastic dynamics. The TQAR model can identify zones of stability/instability and characterize resilience and traps. Resilience means...

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Cash for Carbon : A Randomized Controlled Trial of Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Deforestation

Jayachandran, Seema - 2016

This paper evaluates a Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) program in western Uganda that offered forest …

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Redesigning Payments for Ecosystem Services to Increase Cost-Effectiveness

Izquierdo-Tort, Santiago; Jayachandran, Seema; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) are a widely used approach for forest conservation through which people are paid …

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Property Rights, Regulatory Capture, and Exploitation of Natural Resources

Costello, Christopher - 2015

We study how the strength of property rights to individual extractive firms affects a regulator's choice over exploitation rates for a natural resource. The regulator is modeled as an intermediary between current and future resource harvesters, rather than between producers and consumers, as in...

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Using Field Experiments in Environmental and Resource Economics

List, John A. - 2013

This study showcases the usefulness of field experiments to the study of environmental and resource economics. Our focus pertains to work related to field experiments in the area of 'behavioral' environmental and resource economics. Within this rubric, we discuss research in two areas: those...

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The Value of Secure Property Rights : Evidence from Global Fisheries

Grainger, Corbett A. - 2011

Property rights are commonly touted as a solution to common pool resource problems. But in practice the security of these property rights varies substantially owing to differences in design. In fisheries, the design of individual transferable quotas (ITQs) varies widely; the consequences of...

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