Safeguarding tropical rainforests is one of the most important challenges for the future, particularly to mitigate climate change. The international community has actively sought international policy solutions to curb deforestation in tropical countries. Debt-for-nature swaps and certification...

This paper develops an analytical model of a REDD+ mechanism with an international payment tier and a national payment tier, and calibrate land users' opportunity cost curves based on data from Sumatra. We compare the avoided deforestation and cost-eciency of government purchases across the two...

This article analyzes the consequences for risk distribution of the French Flood Prevention Action Programme (PAPI). By redirecting floods from the most vulnerable to the least vulnerable areas, PAPIs expose farmers to greater flood risks. This has led local water management institutions to...

The purpose of this paper is to explore whether international income transfers can improve or worsen the global level of biodiversity and global social welfare by changing the relative contributions to biodiversity protection and to agricultural production. Because of the public good nature of...

La faisabilité de la réforme prévue pour l'industrie sucrière marocaine est évaluée à travers deux difficultés : le processus de négociation entre les producteurs de plantes sucrières et les unités de transformation ; l'abandon du système de prix fixé au niveau mondial pour la...

La politique agricole commune (Pac), qui fut au coeur de la construction européenne, divise aujourd'hui les États membres. On lui reproche son coût (près de 40 % du budget européen) et la répartition très inégalitaire de ses bénéfices. On l'accuse de nuire aux pays en développement,...

La faisabilité de la réforme prévue pour l'industrie sucrière marocaine est évaluée à travers deux difficultés : le processus de négociation entre les producteurs de plantes sucrières et les unités de transformation ; l'abandon du système de prix fixé au niveau mondial pour la...

The purpose of this paper is to explore whether international income transfers can improve or worsen the global level of biodiversity and global social welfare by changing the relative contributions to biodiversity protection and to agricultural production. Because of the public good nature of...

The paper presents a multi-agent model simulating a two-level public decision game in which politicians, voters and interest groups interact. The objective is to model the political market for influence at the domestic level and at the international level, and to assess how new consultation...

Multi-unit auctions are being used by public agencies to allocate resources and to purchase services. These auctions resolve the lumpy bid problem inherent in single-bid auctions by allowing bidders to submit a supply or demand schedule. However, the choice of pricing formats for multi-unit...