Context Matters: Exploring the Cost-effectiveness of Fixed Payments and Procurement Auctions for PES
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Keywords
Payment for ecosystem services; Conservation auctions; Auction efficiency; Additionality; Benefit targeting; Agent based modelling;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Q57 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Ecological Economics
- Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy
- D44 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Auctions
- C63 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Computational Techniques
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