Improving Spatial Coordination Rates under the Agglomeration Bonus Scheme: A Laboratory Experiment with a Pecuniary and a Non‐Pecuniary Mechanism (NUDGE)
通过实验室实验，研究了在集聚奖励计划下，提高支付金额和提供其他社区信息两种机制如何提升相邻农地间的空间协调率。
The Agglomeration Bonus is a Payment for Ecosystem Services scheme that focuses on achieving spatially‐coordinated land use across neighboring, privately‐owned agricultural properties. In this article, I use a laboratory experiment to examine the role of two mechanisms in incentivizing spatially‐coordinated land uses under the Agglomeration Bonus scheme on a geographical landscape resembling a local circular network. The first mechanism is pecuniary in format and varies the payoffs associated with coordination, while the second is a non‐pecuniary mechanism that varies the amount of information participants have about the land use choices of other participants, specifically of those from another community. The payoff variation is implemented as a within‐subject treatment and the information treatment in a between‐subject format. The results indicate that the coordination rates are higher if payments associated with coordination are higher. Also, having information about outcomes of the Agglomeration Bonus scheme from another community improves spatial coordination rates in both communities.