Three-Stage TSARs, Interdependent Values, and Biodiversity Production on Private Lands

Abstract

We propose a static three-stage incentive-compatible, budget-balanced, execution-contingent scheme for a regulator to allocate biodiversity protection responsibilities across a landscape mosaic having multiple value-interdependent owners. The scheme motivates owners to truthfully report their opportunity costs of protection to the regulator and to comply with their assigned habitat protection responsibilities.