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A note on the performance measure of conservation auctions

Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe; Schilizzi, Steven - School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2011

We argue that previous assessments of discriminatory-price conservation auctions may have systematically overestimated …

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Does tendering conservation contracts with performance payments generate additional benefits?

Schilizzi, Steven; Breustedt, Gunnar; Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe - School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2011

Policy makers aiming to get private landholders to supply non-marketed environmental services may need to provide efficient economic incentives. Two ideas have been explored to achieve this: linking contract payments to environmental outcomes and submitting the contracts to competitive tender....

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Evaluating conservation auctions with limited information: the policy maker’s predicament

Schilizzi, Steven; Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe - School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2011

constraint. Auction theory has mostly focused on target-constrained auctions and is less well developed for this type of auction …

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AUCTIONING OUTCOME-BASED CONSERVATION CONTRACTS

Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe; Schilizzi, Steven; Breustedt, Gunnar - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2011

This paper explores two ideas to enhance the performance of agri-environmental contracting schemes: linking contract payments to environmental outcomes and putting the contracts up for tender. This paper investigates whether there are any gains to be had by combining the benefits of both...

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Are Auctions More Efficient Than Fixed Price Schemes When Bidders Learn?

Hailu, Atakelty; Schilizzi, Steven - In: Australian Journal of Management 29 (2004) 2, pp. 147-168

Auctions are increasingly being considered as a mechanism for allocating conservation contracts to private landowners … constructs an agent-based model to evaluate the long-term performance of conservation auctions under settings where bidders are … allowed to learn from previous outcomes. The results clearly indicate that the efficiency benefits of one-shot auctions are …

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Evaluating conservation auctions with unknown bidder costs: the Scottish fishing vessel decommissioning program

Schilizzi, Steven; Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2012

As an alternative to the more traditional fixed-price schemes, governments can run auctions to purchase environmental …-effectiveness. Using field data from two fishing vessel decommissioning auctions in Scotland, we find ambiguous results regarding relative …

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Should conservation contracts include incentive payments and also be put up for tender?

Schilizzi, Steven; Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2014

In order to maximize efficiency, should conversation contracts include incentive payments and also be put up for tender? This work uses laboratory experiments to investigate this question. We find that there exists an optimal share of performance payment which yields maximum total stewardship...

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How can we evaluate conservation auctions? Three Possible methods

Schilizzi, Steven - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2012

By design, tenders are used when costs are unknown. But if costs are unknown, how can we evaluate the tenders, when their evaluation involves measuring their cost-effectiveness? We identify three approaches: theoretical, empirical and experimental. We first use experimental data to compare the...

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Can a simple model predict complex bidding behaviour? Repeated multi-unit conservation auctions.

Schilizzi, Steven; Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2005

-unit procurement-type auctions. These can either be target-constrained or budget-constrained. Most of the theoretical literature has … examines the predictive power of a simple model previously developed for budget-constrained auctions, in comparison to that of …

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Should we combine incentive payments and tendering for efficiently purchasing conservation services from landholders?

Schilizzi, Steven; Breustedt, Gunnar; Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe - 2010

Policy makers aiming to get private landholders to provide non-marketed environmental services need to provide efficient economic incentives. Two ideas have been explored to achieve this: linking contract payments to environmental outcomes and putting the contracts up for tender. This paper...

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