Uniform or discriminating payments for environmental production on arable land under asymmetric information

European Review of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 61-76

  Gren, Ing Marie ^a,b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Arable land; Environmental good; Hidden information; Uniform versus discriminating payments

Indexed keywords

EID: 4043055906     PISSN: 01651587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/erae/31.1.61     Document Type: Article

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