Bundling Biodiversity
Data
01.01.2002
01.01.2002
Autori
Geoffrey Heal
Codice JEL
H41,Q2,R41
H41,Q2,R41
Parole chiave:
Local public goods,bundling,price discrimination,monopoly,environment,urban development
Local public goods,bundling,price discrimination,monopoly,environment,urban development
Publisher
Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Editor
Carlo Carraro
Carlo Carraro
Biodiversity provides essential services to human societies. Many of these services are provided as public goods, so that they will typically be underprovided both by market mechanisms (because of the impossibility of excluding non-payers from using the services) and by government-run systems (because of the free rider problem). I suggest here that in some cases the public goods provided by biodiversity conservation can be bundled with private goods and their value to consumers captured in the price realized by the private goods. This may lead to an efficient level of provision.