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标题：EFFICIENT POLICIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION: AN ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF INCENTIVES FOR LAND CONVERSION AND RETENTION
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作者：Plantinga, Andrew J. ; Ahn, Soeun
期刊名称：Journal of Food Distribution Research
印刷版ISSN：0047-245X
出版年度：2002
页码：128-145
出版社：Food Distribution Research Society
摘要：This study investigates the costs of subsidies for land retention and conversion, in addition to a policy that combines the incentives. A Markov model of forest and agricultural land use is estimated for the U.S. South Central region and used to simulate retention and conversion policies. Results suggest a conversion policy is less costly for increasing forest area, and a retention policy is less costly for increasing agricultural land area. The costs of separate subsidies can be up to 300% higher than the costs of combined incentives. However, when administrative costs are taken into account, conversion policies are likely to be less costly.