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The paper presents a model to study reverse auctions for conservation contracts. A buyer elicits bids from multiple rent seeking and risk averse farmers. Conservation activities have ex post cost risk such that farmers only learn the true value of conservation contracts after the auction. The paper derives the optimal bidding function and shows that farmers have conflicting incentives when facing multiple sources of risk. Specifically, we show that farmers exhibit a form of precautionary bidding, that is, they increase their bids in response to an increase in valuation risk. We propose an approach to take the model to the data and recover structural risk parameters. The suitability of the approach to real‐world data is demonstrated through a Monte Carlo experiment. L'article présente un modèle pour étudier les enchères inversées pour les contrats de conservation. Un acheteur suscite des offres de la part de plusieurs agriculteurs en quête de rentes et averses au risque. Les acteurs de la conservation courent un risque de coût ex post tel que les agriculteurs ne découvrent la véritable valeur des contrats de conservation qu'après la vente aux enchères. L'article dérive la fonction d'enchère optimale et montre que les agriculteurs ont des incitations contradictoires lorsqu'ils sont confrontés à de multiples sources de risque. Plus précisément, nous montrons que les mises des agriculteurs reflètent un souci de précaution, c'est‐à‐dire que les mises sont augmentées en réponse à une augmentation du risque de valorisation. Nous proposons une approche pour amener le modèle aux données et récupérer les paramètres de risque structurels. La pertinence de l'approche à des données réelles est démontrée à travers une expérience de Monte‐Carlo.
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Bruno Wichmann, 2024.
"Rent seeking and precautionary bidding in conservation auctions,"
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, Canadian Agricultural Economics Society/Societe canadienne d'agroeconomie, vol. 72(3), pages 235-249, September.
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RePEc:bla:canjag:v:72:y:2024:i:3:p:235-249
DOI: 10.1111/cjag.12343
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