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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Optimal Incentive Contracts; Payments for Environmental Services; Performance Incentives; Distortion;JEL classification:
- Q20 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2009-07-28 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2009-07-28 (Environmental Economics)
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