Policy impact analysis of penalty and reward scenarios to promote flower-ing cover crops using a business simulation game

Gesa Sophie Holst and Oliver Musshoff

No 182798, 2014 International Congress, August 26-29, 2014, Ljubljana, Slovenia from European Association of Agricultural Economists

Abstract: Due to several existing limitations for the use of silage maize as biogas substrate, flowering cover crops are currently a much-discussed alternative. Using a business simulation game, the present study investigates whether the implementation of a reward and a penalty policy will improve the uptake of flowering cover crops in the production programs of farmers. The re-sults indicate that penalty policies lead to a stronger increase in the size of the cultivation area of flowering cover crops than reward policies, even though both policies have the same in-come effect.

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Pages: 12
Date: 2014-08
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.182798

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