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California Agriculture, 2008
Foundations and Trends® in Microeconomics, 2007
Agricultural Economics, 2000
ABSTRACT The Environmental Stewardship Scheme provides payments to farmers for the provision of e... more ABSTRACT The Environmental Stewardship Scheme provides payments to farmers for the provision of environmental services based on agricultural foregone income. This creates a potential incentive compatibility problem which, combined with an information asymmetry on farm land heterogeneity, could lead to adverse selection of farmers into the scheme. However, the Higher Level Scheme (HLS) design includes some features that potentially reduce adverse selection. This paper studies the adverse selection problem of the HLS using a principal agent framework at the regional level. It is found that, at the regional level, the enrolment of more land from lower payment regions for a given budget constraint has led to a greater overall contracted area (and thus potential environmental benefit) which has had the effect of reducing the adverse selection problem. In addition, for landscape regions with the same payment rate (i.e. of the same agricultural value), differential weighting of the public demand for environmental goods and services provided by agriculture (measured by weighting an environmental benefit function by the distance to main cities) appears to be reflected into the regulator’s allocation of contracts, thereby also reducing the adverse selection problem.
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2002
Environmental Research Letters, 2007
Environmental & Resource Economics, 1992
Environmental & Resource Economics, 1995
The adoption of pollution prevention and abatement practices is examined in the context of a mode... more The adoption of pollution prevention and abatement practices is examined in the context of a model of exhaustible resource use with a backstop technology. For the sake of concreteness, the paper focuses on the problem of water-logging caused by the subsurface accumulation of agricultural drainwater. In modelling this problem, a region's underground capacity to store drainwater is considered an exhaustible
Environmental & Resource Economics, 1995
Environmental and Resource Economics, 2008
Environment and Development Economics, 2002
ABSTRACT Water scarcity is a constraint on economic activity in many regions, and improving the a... more ABSTRACT Water scarcity is a constraint on economic activity in many regions, and improving the allocation of water is an important part of the process of economic devel- opment. Economists have advocated water markets as a way to increase efficiency and to cope with ...
Environment and Development Economics, 2010
Environment and Development Economics, 2008
Environment and Development Economics, 2014
Energy Policy, 2011
A common assumption in lifecycle assessment (LCA) based estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG) benefit... more A common assumption in lifecycle assessment (LCA) based estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG) benefits (or costs) of renewable fuel such as biofuel is that it simply replaces an energy-equivalent amount of fossil fuel and that total fuel consumption remains ...
The Energy Journal, 1999
This paper explores the sources and magnitude of energy-inefficiency in the electricity generatin... more This paper explores the sources and magnitude of energy-inefficiency in the electricity generating sector in India and its implications for carbon emissions from this sector. An econometric methodology is developed to disaggregate and quantify the contribution of technical and institutional ...
Energy Economics, 2001
A behavioral micro-economic framework was developed to analyze the impact of alternative mixes of... more A behavioral micro-economic framework was developed to analyze the impact of alternative mixes of policy reforms that eliminate existing regulatory distortions and a carbon emissions-tax on incentives to adopt energy efficient technologies and their implications ...
Energy Economics, 2013
ABSTRACT In this article, an extensive review of the rapidly growing biofuel-related time-series ... more ABSTRACT In this article, an extensive review of the rapidly growing biofuel-related time-series literature is carried out. The data used, the modeling techniques and the main findings of this literature are discussed. Providing a review of this flourishing research area is relevant as a guidepost for future research. This literature concludes that energy prices drive long-run agricultural price levels and that instability in energy markets is transferred to food markets.
California Agriculture, 2008
Foundations and Trends® in Microeconomics, 2007
Agricultural Economics, 2000
ABSTRACT The Environmental Stewardship Scheme provides payments to farmers for the provision of e... more ABSTRACT The Environmental Stewardship Scheme provides payments to farmers for the provision of environmental services based on agricultural foregone income. This creates a potential incentive compatibility problem which, combined with an information asymmetry on farm land heterogeneity, could lead to adverse selection of farmers into the scheme. However, the Higher Level Scheme (HLS) design includes some features that potentially reduce adverse selection. This paper studies the adverse selection problem of the HLS using a principal agent framework at the regional level. It is found that, at the regional level, the enrolment of more land from lower payment regions for a given budget constraint has led to a greater overall contracted area (and thus potential environmental benefit) which has had the effect of reducing the adverse selection problem. In addition, for landscape regions with the same payment rate (i.e. of the same agricultural value), differential weighting of the public demand for environmental goods and services provided by agriculture (measured by weighting an environmental benefit function by the distance to main cities) appears to be reflected into the regulator’s allocation of contracts, thereby also reducing the adverse selection problem.
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2002
Environmental Research Letters, 2007
Environmental & Resource Economics, 1992
Environmental & Resource Economics, 1995
The adoption of pollution prevention and abatement practices is examined in the context of a mode... more The adoption of pollution prevention and abatement practices is examined in the context of a model of exhaustible resource use with a backstop technology. For the sake of concreteness, the paper focuses on the problem of water-logging caused by the subsurface accumulation of agricultural drainwater. In modelling this problem, a region's underground capacity to store drainwater is considered an exhaustible
Environmental & Resource Economics, 1995
Environmental and Resource Economics, 2008
Environment and Development Economics, 2002
ABSTRACT Water scarcity is a constraint on economic activity in many regions, and improving the a... more ABSTRACT Water scarcity is a constraint on economic activity in many regions, and improving the allocation of water is an important part of the process of economic devel- opment. Economists have advocated water markets as a way to increase efficiency and to cope with ...
Environment and Development Economics, 2010
Environment and Development Economics, 2008
Environment and Development Economics, 2014
Energy Policy, 2011
A common assumption in lifecycle assessment (LCA) based estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG) benefit... more A common assumption in lifecycle assessment (LCA) based estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG) benefits (or costs) of renewable fuel such as biofuel is that it simply replaces an energy-equivalent amount of fossil fuel and that total fuel consumption remains ...
The Energy Journal, 1999
This paper explores the sources and magnitude of energy-inefficiency in the electricity generatin... more This paper explores the sources and magnitude of energy-inefficiency in the electricity generating sector in India and its implications for carbon emissions from this sector. An econometric methodology is developed to disaggregate and quantify the contribution of technical and institutional ...
Energy Economics, 2001
A behavioral micro-economic framework was developed to analyze the impact of alternative mixes of... more A behavioral micro-economic framework was developed to analyze the impact of alternative mixes of policy reforms that eliminate existing regulatory distortions and a carbon emissions-tax on incentives to adopt energy efficient technologies and their implications ...
Energy Economics, 2013
ABSTRACT In this article, an extensive review of the rapidly growing biofuel-related time-series ... more ABSTRACT In this article, an extensive review of the rapidly growing biofuel-related time-series literature is carried out. The data used, the modeling techniques and the main findings of this literature are discussed. Providing a review of this flourishing research area is relevant as a guidepost for future research. This literature concludes that energy prices drive long-run agricultural price levels and that instability in energy markets is transferred to food markets.