Utilizing Contingent Claims to Improve the Management of CAFOs

Benjamin Gramig, Jerry R. Skees and J. Roy Black

Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2004, vol. 36, issue 2, 16

Abstract: We propose a market-based approach to reducing the environmental risk posed by concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). The dual problems of hidden information and hidden action faced by policymakers are considered alongside the competing incentives faced by the CAFO manager in a multiple principal-agent setting. A new approach that uses insurance-like contracts is introduced by use of the specific example of a swine operation with a lagoon-based manure management system. Index-based contingent claims contracts in tandem with third-party auditing and waste hauling options are introduced as a complement to regulatory frameworks designed to reduce negative externalities from production.

Date: 2004
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