among well-known managerial practices to protect scarce biological resources, payment for ecosystem services is an efficient and effective policy tool to manage such resources and its application is attracting a growing interest in the world. this is why, in addition to clarifying the role of such a policy tool to encourage farmers to modify their irrigation system to reduce pressures on water ...

Silvopasture is considered as an environmentally benign land use system relative to conventional cattle ranching. However, most of the environmental benefits of silvopasture are external while the costs are internal to ranchers providing ranchers little or no motivation to implement silvopasture practices. We assessed Florida ranchers’ willingness to adopt silvopasture practices using a dichoto...

This paper proposes a regression market for wind agents to monetize data traded among themselves power forecasting. Existing literature on markets often treats disclosure as binary choice or modulates the quality based mismatch between offer and bid prices. As result, disadvantages either sellers due overestimation of their willingness disclose data, buyers lack useful being provided. Our propo...

In many developing countries, public patients offer payments to their doctors outside the official payment channels. We argue that the fundamental reason for these informal payments is that formal prices cannot fully differentiate patients’ various needs. We compare patient welfare and social efficiency when informal payments are allowed with the scenario when they are banned. Patient heterogen...

Policymakers have focused primarily on increasing Medicaid reimbursement rates to increase physicians' participation in Medicaid, although physicians often complain of payment delays and other administrative burdens associated with Medicaid. Linking state-level data on average reimbursement times to the 2004-05 Community Tracking Study Physician Survey, this study examines how Medicaid reimburs...

Criticism of contingent valuation (CV) stresses warm glow and free-riding as possible causes for biased willingness to pay figures. We present an empirical framework to study the existence of warm glow and free-riding in hypothetical WTP answers based on a CV survey for the measurement of health-related Red Cross services. Both in conventional double-bounded and spike models we do not find indi...

the proposition that natural areas need protection from the destructive actions of people iswidely accepted. this paper examines iran’s e-society attitudes and capital towards biodiversity conservationand evaluates economically iran’s national parks (nps). 2,121 respondents answered an online questionnaire conducted in summer 2012. the majority of respondents had visited one of iran’s nps. almo...

The state of Sabah is rich in unique and interesting natural resources, history, festivals culture. This diversity products attractions has led to an increase domestic international tourist arrivals the state. article aims examine payment rates willingness pay those who visit different destinations Kundasang-Ranau Kota Belud, Sabah. evaluation case study research methods were used this study. I...