A comparative study of transaction costs of payments for forest ecosystem services in Vietnam

Thu-Ha Dang Phan, Roy Brouwer (), Long Phi Hoang and Marc David Davidson

Forest Policy and Economics, 2017, vol. 80, issue C, 141-149

Abstract: Two payments for forest ecosystem services (PFES) schemes under one common legal-institutional coordination mechanism but different historical-institutional background and organizational design are analyzed to measure and explain their transaction costs (TC). Data on TC related to payment transfers and conditionality compliance are collected using a combination of in-depth interviews with local PFES scheme coordinators, site visits, and secondary data analysis. The two PFES schemes show substantial differences in TC despite the fact that they emerged from the same legal-institutional framework due to differences in participation rates, types of forest ecosystem services providers, and payment characteristics.

Keywords: Payments for forest ecosystem services; Transaction costs; Conditionality; Institutional design; Vietnam (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2017.03.017

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