Buying environmental services from private landholders using tendering mechanisms are usuallysubject to a budget constraint. Auction theory has mostly focused on target-constrained auctionsand is not well developed for this type of auction. This paper examines the predictive capacity of asimple...

Policy makers aiming to get private landholders to provide non-marketed environmental services need to provide efficient economic incentives. Two ideas have been explored to achieve this: linking contract payments to environmental outcomes and putting the contracts up for tender. This paper...

This paper explores two ideas to enhance the performance of agri-environmental contracting schemes: linking contract payments to environmental outcomes and putting the contracts up for tender. This paper investigates whether there are any gains to be had by combining the benefits of both...

A bioeconomic model of reservoir aquaculture in northern Vietnam is used toinvestigate the impacts of price and yield risk on the level, variability and skewness ofexpected net revenue and utility. Prices and yields are assumed to follow lognormaland beta distributions, respectively. Net revenue...

Um Rückschlüsse über eine sinnvolle Integration einer Biogasanlage in das strategische Gesamtkonzept eines landwirtschaftlichen Betriebes ziehen zu können, werden Interdependenzen der Investitionsinputs mittels Sensitivitätsanalyse bewertet. Darauf aufbauend werden die Investitionserfolge...