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Title: | An Examination of the Stability of Cooperation in an Ongoing Collective Action: The Case of Nonpoint Source Pollution in Lake Pittsfield |
Author(s): | Algozin, Kenneth Alan |
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): | Nelson, Charles H. |
Department / Program: | Agricultural Economics |
Discipline: | Agricultural Economics |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | Ph.D. |
Genre: | Dissertation |
Subject(s): | Economics, Agricultural |
Abstract: | This results suggest that without additional incentives, farmers are likely to abandon their voluntary agreement and resume their use of atrazine within the watershed. It is then demonstrated how a combination of policy instruments can be used to alter the underlying game configuration of the collective action problem, resulting in cooperative outcomes. An ambient-based penalty, when used in conjunction with a subsidy payment, is shown to produce divergent incentive structures that shift the classification of the collective action away from a coordination problem with two equilibria to a mixed configuration containing several different game structures and many possible equilibria. The analysis concludes with an example confirming that joint cooperation is not a prerequisite to the realization of a socially desirable outcome. |
Issue Date: | 1999 |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
Description: | 199 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/83042 |
Other Identifier(s): | (MiAaPQ)AAI9952950 |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2015-09-25 |
Date Deposited: | 1999 |
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Graduate Dissertations and Theses at Illinois
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