Category: Water Quantity & Adaptation

Contracts versus Trust for Transfers of Nature’s Services: equity and efficiency in resource allocation and environmental provision

Published October 16, 2018 by Alex Pfaff

Alexander Pfaff, Maria Alejandra Velez, Amar Hamoudi, Renzo Taddei, Kenneth Broad Water Resources & Economics 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wre.2018.04.001 Managing natural-resource allocation and environmental externalities is a…

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Framed field experiment on resource scarcity & extraction: path-dependent generosity within sequential water appropriation

Published July 1, 2015 by Alex Pfaff

Alexander Pfaff, Maria Alejandra Vélez, Pablo Andres Ramos, Adriana Molina Ecological Economics 120 (2015) 416–429 How one treats others is important within collective action. We…

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Unequal Information, Unequal Allocation: bargaining field experiments in NE Brazil

Published January 1, 2013 by Alex Pfaff

Alexander Pfaff, Maria Alejandra Velez, Renzo Taddei, Kenneth Broad Environmental Science & Policy 26 (2013) 90-101 We assess how unequal information affects the bargaining within…

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The Advantage of Resource Queues over Spot Resource Markets: decision coordination in experiments under resource uncertainty

Published January 1, 2012 by Alex Pfaff

Miguel Fonseca, Alexander Pfaff, Daniel Osgood Amer. J. Agr. Econ. 94(5): 1136–1153; doi: 10.1093/ajae/aas065 Farmers have to make key decisions, such as which crops to…

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Efficiency and equity in negotiated resource transfers: contributions and limitations of trust with limited contracts

Published January 2, 2011 by Alex Pfaff

Alexander Pfaff, Maria Alejandra Velez Ecological Economics 74 (2012) 55–63 We consider a case of water reallocation in Brazil, one which has numerous analogs elsewhere.…

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Behavior, Environment, and Health in Developing Countries: evaluation and valuation

Published January 1, 2009 by Alex Pfaff

Subhrendu Pattanayak, Alexander Pfaff Annual Review of Resource Economics (2009) 1:183–217 We consider health and environmental quality in developing countries, where limited resources constrain behaviors…

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