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The purpose of this paper is to analyse land allocation between competing agri-environmentalcontracts taking into account institutional issues and farm household and farm characteristics. Weconsider a Biodiversity Protection Contract, Landscape Management Contract and a Restriction onIntensive...
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This thesis consists of three chapters on the choice of institutional governance. The first chapter provides empirical evidence on the effect of local norms on the contractual choice, using a comprehensive dataset on US agricultural leasing contracts. We focus on the choice between cash-rent and...
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A crucial factor in the success of any water quality trading market is its ability to cost-effectivelyreallocate nutrient allowances from initial holders to those users who find them most valuable;the market's trading efficiency. We explore causes of and solutions to trading inefficiency...
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On November 8, 1996, various Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials, scholars and industry representatives gathered at Resources for the Future (RFF) to examine the EPA's method for classifying private SO2 allowance transactions by the Allowance Tracking System (ATS). The one-day...
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Firms increasingly look outside their organizational boundaries to identify partners that can improve the effectiveness of R&D projects. The strategy for using partners, however, varies significantly across projects. In some, partners are used primarily to lower development costs and/or...
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Much of the extensive empirical literature on insurance markets hasfocused on whether adverse selection can be detected. Once detected, however, therehas been little attempt to quantify its welfare cost, or to assess whether and whatpotential government interventions may reduce these costs. To...
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This paper analyzes potential cost savings to the U.S. agricultural sector associated with applying marketable permit designs for methyl bromide critical use exemptions (CUE), under the phase-out of methyl bromide. A necessary condition for an efficient trading system is heterogeneity among...
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The aim of this paper is to quantitatively assess the long run economic impact of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) abolition, where in particular, we focus on the Spanish economy. To carry out our analysis, we employ the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) computable general equilibrium model...
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A positive mathematical programming model was constructed in this study to assess theeffect of three water pricing scenarios on Teboulba’s agricultural production systems.The effects of these scenarios were estimated for three groups of farmers from three irrigated districts. Results show that...
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