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Alleviation and sanctions in social dilemma games

Drouvelis, Michalis - In: Games 6 (2015) 3, pp. 368-380

This paper reports an experiment which compares behaviour in two punishment regimes: (i) a standard public goods game with punishment in which subjects are given the opportunity to punish other group members (democratic punishment regime) and (ii) a public goods game environment where all group...

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Consultative democracy and trust

Bogliacino, Francesco; Jiménez Lozano, Laura; … - In: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 44 (2018), pp. 55-67

We report experimental results from three Colombian villages concerning the impact of a voting mechanism on interpersonal trust and trustworthiness. The vote is purely consultative in that participants are asked to declare in a secret ballot the most “appropriate” plan of action for...

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Multifunctional Agriculture and the Preservation of Environmental Benefits

Hediger, Werner; Lehmann, Bernard - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 143 (2007) 4, pp. 449-470

We investigate environmental aspects of agriculture from a welfare economic perspective and show that both positive and negative effects exhibit the character of undepletable externalities. To internalise these externalities while taking equity concerns into account, we propose compensation of...

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Impact Evaluation of Alternative Irrigation Technology in Crete: Correcting for Selectivity Bias

Vrachioli, Maria; Stefanou, Spiro E.; Tzouvelekas, Vangelis - In: Environmental and Resource Economics 79 (2021) 3, pp. 551-574

impact of these projects. This study evaluates the impact from transitioning to a modern irrigation technology. Deciding to … adopt or not an alternative irrigation technology (sprinklers) is not necessarily a random determination. Therefore …-2013. The results reveal that the average technical efficiency for farmers who adopted sprinkler irrigation is lower than the …

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Kurz zum Klima: Zu viel Salz verdirbt den Boden

Zimmer, Markus; Lippelt, Jana; Frank, Jonas - In: ifo Schnelldienst 65 (2012) 19, pp. 51-53

Der zunehmende Einsatz von Anlagen zur Bewässerung sowie mangelnde Erfahrungswerte und Unkenntnis über den richtigen Einsatz der künstlichen Bewässerung haben in den letzten Jahrzehnten zu einer massiven Zunahme der Versalzung des Bodens geführt. Durch diese Bodenversalzung werden weite...

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Production risk and adoption of irrigation technology: Evidence from small-scale farmers in Chile

Salazar, César; Rand, John - In: Latin American Economic Review 25 (2016) 1, pp. 1-37

In most developing countries non-irrigation status often dominates adoption of traditional and modern irrigation … technology. In this paper, we study the effect of production risk on irrigation technology choice among small-scale farmers in …, receiving extension services, and living in communes with more adopters are more likely to use modern irrigation techniques …

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Institutions, reform policies, and productivity growth in agriculture: Evidence from former communist countries

Rizov, Marian - In: NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences 55 (2008) 4, pp. 307-323

commonly attributed to variation in inherent institutions and reform policy choices. In this paper the link between … institutions, reforms and (labour) productivity growth in agriculture is analysed within an augmented neo-classical growth model … democratic institutions, have positively contributed to the (labour) productivity growth in former communist countries …

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The Sustainability of Fish Consumption in Romania: Customer Behaviour prior and after the Country's Adherence to the EU

Rosca, Vlad; Ignat, Raluca - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 16 (2014) 35, pp. 243-257

offered by the EU have had any effect on the sustainability of the environment. …

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Sharing the costs of complex water projects: Application to the West Delta water conservation and irrigation rehabilitation project, Egypt

Moretti, Stefano; Patrone, Fioravante; Dinar, Ariel; … - In: Games 7 (2016) 3, pp. 1-23

sustainability of the project. Projects that are heterogeneous both in terms of the landscape of the area under development or the … beneficiaries in an equitable and fair way. The proposed approach is applied to theWest Delta irrigation project. It sketches a …

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Development of a decentralized monitoring system of domestic water consumption

Kuski, L.; Maia, E.; Moura, P.; Caetano, N.; Felgueiras, C. - In: Energy Reports 6 (2020) 1, pp. 856-861

Inefficient use of water represents a major source of direct cost of water production, but especially of excessive energy use to purify it. Greater efficiency could be achieved if management were supported by objective data in addition to the rules of good practice that have been disseminated....

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