We study the impact of new information about food safety on subjects' willingness-to-pay for food products, in an experimental setting. We elicit prices using either a second price auction or the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak procedure. There are three stages of bidding. In stage 1, subjects bid for...

La biodiversité en forêt est au coeur d’enjeux économiques et environnementaux. Elle a une valeur économique, révélée par les ménages et elle conditionne l’état écologique de la forêt. Des incitations à la préserver sont parfois nécessaires. Plus généralement, elle pose la...

L'importance de la forêt pour la société rend nécessaire l’évaluation du patrimoine forestier qu’elle représente, des biens et services qu’elle produit et du fonctionnement de la filière. Une comptabilité économique et environnementale régulière reposant sur une méthodologie...

Forest land use is often associated with the protection of water resources from contamination and the reduced cost of drinking water supply. This study attempted to measure the value of the forest on the quality of water resources from a contingent market, namely drinking water supply, by...

In this article, we empirically assess the efficiency of Natura 2000 contracts in forest, a payment for environmental service (PES) scheme, aiming at biodiversity conservation. To do so, we perform a bio-econometric analysis of public and private contracts in France. We estimate a cost function...

Natura 2000 is a European Union network of protected areas. In France, all forest owners whose forests are located in a Natura 2000 site are eligible to enroll in a biodiversity conservation program by signing a Natura 2000 contract. In this case, the forest owner benefit from financial support...

Procurement auctions are one of several policy tools available to incentivise the provision of ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation. Successful biodiversity conservation often requires a landscape-scale approach and the spatial coordination of participation, for example in the...