Empirical evaluation of nonpoint pollution policies under agent heterogeneity: regulating intensive dairy production in the Waikato region of New Zealand

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dc.contributor.authorDoole, Graeme J.
dc.contributor.authorPannell, David J.
dc.date.accessioned2011-10-06T03:34:30Z
dc.date.available2011-10-06T03:34:30Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractModels used for policy evaluation rarely consider firm heterogeneity, despite its importance for instrument design. This study considers agent heterogeneity explicitly in the evaluation of policies for nonpoint pollution control through the integration of decomposition and calibration procedures for programming models. The application concerns the regulation of nitrate leaching from intensive dairy production in the Waikato region of New Zealand. Failing to represent firm heterogeneity leads to widely different estimates of mitigation costs, relative to where heterogeneity is considered. Variation in baseline emissions and the slopes of abatement cost curves between firms renders a differentiated policy less costly than a uniform standard. However, the relative values of these policies are not broadly different, as firms required to do the most abatement – intensive farms with large baseline pollutant loads – can do so more cheaply, on average.en_NZ
dc.identifier.citationDoole, G.J. & Pannell, D.J. (2011). Empirical evaluation of nonpoint pollution policies under agent heterogeneity: regulating intensive dairy production in the Waikato region of New Zealand. The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, published online on 9 August 2011.en_NZ
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1467-8489.2011.00565.xen_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/5808
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWileyen_NZ
dc.relation.isPartOfAustralian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economicsen_NZ
dc.relation.urihttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8489.2011.00565.x/abstracten_NZ
dc.subjectdifferentiated instrumentsen_NZ
dc.subjectenvironmental policyen_NZ
dc.subjectheterogeneous agentsen_NZ
dc.titleEmpirical evaluation of nonpoint pollution policies under agent heterogeneity: regulating intensive dairy production in the Waikato region of New Zealanden_NZ
dc.typeJournal Articleen_NZ
pubs.begin-page82en_NZ
pubs.elements-id36293
pubs.end-page101en_NZ
pubs.issue1en_NZ
pubs.volume56en_NZ
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