eprintid: 31340
rev_number: 17
eprint_status: archive
userid: 3114
dir: disk0/00/03/13/40
datestamp: 2022-03-09 13:32:26
lastmod: 2024-07-17 12:25:44
status_changed: 2022-03-09 13:32:26
type: workingPaper
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Diekert, Florian
creators_name: Eymess, Tillmann
creators_name: Goeschl, Timo
creators_name: Gómez-Cardona, Santiago
creators_name: Luomba, Joseph
title: Subsidizing Compliance: A Multi-Unit Price List Mechanism for Legal Fishing Nets at Lake Victoria
subjects: ddc-330
divisions: i-181000
keywords: compliance, natural resource management
cterms_swd: subsidies
abstract: Like many common-pool resources, the Lake Victoria fisheries are characterized by poor compliance with production input regulations that are intended to reduce overexploitation. To explore the use of input subsidies to increase compliance, we determine the subsidy level required to induce demand for legal fishing nets, thereby compensating fishermen for loss of productivity net of enforcement risk. Our study additionally tests the subsidy-enhancing effect of a norm-nudge. A new multiple price list mechanism for eliciting revealed willingness to pay for multiple units of a production input is developed, adapted to the demands of a challenging field setting, and implemented with 462 fishermen at 20 landings sites on the Tanzanian lakeshore. Consistent with the high prevalence of illegal fishing gear at our sites, we find a zero median demand for legal net panels at local market prices. The subsidy required to shift median demand to at least one legal net panel is a 21% discount. Norm-nudging generates no policy-relevant enhancement of the subsidy.
date: 2022-02-22
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00031340
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-3
schriftenreihe_order: 0711
ppn_swb: 179623916X
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-313400
language: eng
bibsort: DIEKERTFLOSUBSIDIZIN20220222
full_text_status: public
series: Discussion Paper Series, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
volume: 0711
place_of_pub: Heidelberg
pages: 39
citation:   Diekert, Florian ; Eymess, Tillmann ; Goeschl, Timo ; Gómez-Cardona, Santiago ; Luomba, Joseph  (2022) Subsidizing Compliance: A Multi-Unit Price List Mechanism for Legal Fishing Nets at Lake Victoria.  [Working paper]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/31340/7/Diekert_Eymess_Goeschl_2022_dp711.pdf