Essays about: "public goods economics"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 27 essays containing the words public goods economics.
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1. Public goods games for collective agri-environmental contracts design
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EconomicsAbstract : This thesis conducts a structured literature review of public goods games (PGG) experiments to analyze the differences between laboratory and field studies and to understand whether farmers cooperate more or less than standard PGG subjects. In addition, novel data on public goods games conducted on European farmers from Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, and Poland are analyzed to understand the effect of heterogeneous starting endowments on cooperation. READ MORE
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2. Exploring heterogeneity in farmers’ willingness to cooperate in four EU member states: Insights from public goods games : insights from public goods games
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EconomicsAbstract : Agri-environment-climate measures (AECMs), as part of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy, incentivize environmentally friendly farming practices for multiple ecosystem services provision. However, AECMs are criticised for their low cost-effectiveness. READ MORE
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3. To what extent are Hungarian farmers willing to cooperate on agri-environmental schemes? : experimental evidence from a public goods game
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EconomicsAbstract : European Union agri-environmental measures fail to deliver expected benefits despite playing a central role in mitigating the negative effects of agriculture on biodiversity and the environment. Implementing agri-environmental contracts following a landscape-scale rather than an individual�farm level approach could potentially contribute to improving their environmental performance. READ MORE
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4. Swedish Farmers’ Acceptance of RCTs and Economic Experiments
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EconomicsAbstract : A shift in the Common European Agriculture (CAP) towards agri-environmental payment schemes meant to incentivise the provision of environmental public goods calls for a diverse set of policy evaluation methods. Economic experiments such as RCTs can be efficient and cost-effective tools for improving and evaluating the effectiveness of these novel policies. READ MORE
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5. Impact of Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) chapters in the free trade agreements of the EU on its imports of environmental goods: A gravity model analysis
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Sustainable development agenda in general and environmental considerations in particular have become deeply embedded into the ways the public and decision makers are thinking about trade policy. European Union, while not being the very first adopter of ambitious policies on this front as part of its free trade agreements (FTAs), has emerged throughout the 2010s as the most consistent one. READ MORE
