Efficient Contracts for Carbon Credits from Reforestation Projects

Estimation of Carbon Credits in Carbon Dioxide Sequestration Activities

Accounting methods for carbon credits: impacts on the minimum area of forestry projects under the Clean Development Mechanism

Ocean urea fertilization for carbon credits poses high ecological risks.

The proposed plan for enrichment of the Sulu Sea, Philippines, a region of rich marine biodiversity, with thousands of tonnes of urea in order to stimulate algal blooms and sequester carbon is flawed for multiple reasons. Urea is preferentially used as a nitrogen source by some cyanobacteria and dinoflagellates, many of which are neutrally or positively buoyant. Biological pumps to the deep sea...

Efficient Contracts for Digital Content

This paper analyses efficient contracts for digital content, focusing on the music industry. It contributes to the quest for an efficient intellectual property rights environment for information goods. Moreover, it adds an interesting application to the field of behavioural economics. The model is set in a contract theory framework with the copyright holder being the principal and a consumer th...

Secret Contracts for Efficient Partnerships∗

By allocating different information to team members, secret contracts can provide better incentives to perform with an intuitive organizational design. For instance, they may help to monitor monitors, and attain approximately efficient partnerships by appointing a secret principal. More generally, secret contracts highlight a rich duality between enforceability and identifiability. It naturally...