Downward sloping demand for environmental amenities and international compensation: elephant conservation and strategic culling
研究显示，针对大象保护的国际补偿可能引发宿主国的战略行为，反而损害全球福利和种群存量，挑战了传统补偿促进保护的观念。
Conventional wisdom holds that monetary compensation for positive trans boundary externalities will promote conservation of resource amenities.We demonstrate that, in the case of elephant conservation, international transfers may also result in strategic behavior by host countries, with adverse implications for global welfare and in situ stocks.