Performance Payments for Environmental Services : Lessons from Economic Theory on the Strength of Incentives in the Presence of Performance Risk and Performance Measurement Distortion
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2009-07-28 (Agricultural Economics)
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