type="main" xml:id="ajar12049-abs-0001" <p>We examine environmental auctions on working agricultural lands. We organized a discriminatory auction where farmers were asked to make bids on spreading gypsum on their fields to reduce phosphorus loads to surface waters. The parcel-specific bids were...</p>

We analyse optimal phosphorus fertilisation and erosion control policies in a spatial, dynamic, steady-state framework. First-best instruments to incentivise farmers to undertake socially optimal choices are analysed both analytically and empirically. An empirical illustration is presented for a...

The authors analyze the effect of advance ticket sales (ATS) on Finnish football league attendances. We postulate a linear ordinary least squares (OLS) model for log-attendance data from the years 1991-2007. Match day weather, timing of the match, team performance and match characteristics...

1. Introduction -- 2. Co-Evolution of Agriculture and the Environment from the Beginning to the Present -- 3. Agricultural Land Use, Production, and Water Quality -- 4. Decision Making at the Farm Level -- 5. Environmental Policy Instruments for Agriculture -- 6. Water Quality Trading -- 7....

Water pollution control has been a top environmental policy priority of the world’s most developed countries for decades, and the focus of significant regulation and public and private spending. Yet, significant water quality problems remain, and trends for some pollutants are in the wrong...