Anne-sarah Chiambretto

French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE) | INRAE · Laboratoire Montpelliérain d’Économie Théorique et Appliquée

Agricultural production contributes to many environmental problems. In semi-arid areas, agricultural irrigation causes the so-called waterlogging phenomenon. This phenomenon is both spatial and dynamic since percolation depends on soil quality summed up in landscape heterogeneity and evolves along time. Furthermore, farmers can be farsighted with r...

I develop a subscription game, modified so as to represent firms' incentives to participate to an environmental Voluntary Agreement (VA). Specifically, I assume the VA is preemptive, i.e. it occurs under the threat of a mandatory regulation. I suggest the use of a correlating device to strengthen firms participation, formalized by the concept of co...

This comment reexamines the problem of free-riding in pre-emptive collective environmental voluntary agreements (VA) analysed by Dawson and Segerson in the context of VAs with a global emission target and a pigouvian tax used as a threat. Completely remaining in the authors' framework, we here reconsider their results about efficiency. While they c...