TY - JOUR
T1 - Agglomeration bonus in small and large local networks
T2 - A laboratory examination of spatial coordination
AU - Banerjee, Simanti
AU - Kwasnica, Anthony M.
AU - Shortle, James S.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank Nick Hanley (University of Stirling, UK) for comments and the College of Agricultural Sciences Seed Grant Program, Penn State University for financial assistance for the experiments.
Copyright:
Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2012/12
Y1 - 2012/12
N2 - The Agglomeration Bonus (AB) is a subsidy mechanism intended to induce adjacent landowners to coordinate environmental conservation activities. This paper explores the effects of landowner group size on spatial coordination under the AB in laboratory experiments where players are located on circular local networks. The experiments indicate a significant difference in patterns of coordination between groups. Additionally, global coordination on a single strategy is obtained in half of the groups and in the remaining half, both strategies exist giving rise to localized areas of coordinated land uses on the network.
AB - The Agglomeration Bonus (AB) is a subsidy mechanism intended to induce adjacent landowners to coordinate environmental conservation activities. This paper explores the effects of landowner group size on spatial coordination under the AB in laboratory experiments where players are located on circular local networks. The experiments indicate a significant difference in patterns of coordination between groups. Additionally, global coordination on a single strategy is obtained in half of the groups and in the remaining half, both strategies exist giving rise to localized areas of coordinated land uses on the network.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.09.005
DO - 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.09.005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84869139670
SN - 0921-8009
VL - 84
SP - 142
EP - 152
JO - Ecological Economics
JF - Ecological Economics
ER -
