Decoupling values of agricultural externalities according to scale: a spatial hedonic approach in Brittany

Abdel Fawaz Osseni, Francois Bareille and Pierre Dupraz

No 19-04, Working Papers SMART from INRAE UMR SMART

Abstract: Agricultural activities jointly generate various externalities. Hedonic pricing method allows for their valuation. Previous hedonic studies have estimated the value of the externalities generated by a given agricultural activity in a single parameter. Based on simple theoretical model, we illustrate that this parameter captures the sum of the different externalities generated by the activity. We explain that this parameter can differ at different spatial scale. Using specific spatial econometric models with spatial lags on the explanatory variables, we distinguish between the value of infra-municipal agricultural externalities and the value of extra-municipal agricultural externalities with larger spatial range arising from the same agricultural source. Among the estimated models, the spatial lag of the exogenous variable and the general nested spatial models are selected as the best models. We find that swine activities present negative effects at all scales whereas dairy cattle activities, including grassland management, present negative effects at the infra-municipality scale but positive spillovers.

Keywords: externalities; nitrogen; agriculture; spatial econometric (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H41 Q51 Q53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 49 pages
Date: 2019
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr and nep-bec
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Working Paper: Decoupling values of agricultural externalities according to scale: a spatial hedonic approach in Brittany (2019)
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