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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE-AT link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Dear members and friends of the VCEE,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>you are invited to attend the VCEE seminar on <b>Friday, Nov 12, 2021</b>, from 10:30 to 12:00 HS 3 Vienna time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>We will have one speaker: Daan van Soest<b> (Tilburg University)<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Here is more information about the talk:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Incentivizing conservation of de facto community-owned forests <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Abstract<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'> How to effectively protect nature on lands that are, de facto or de jure, commonly owned – as is the case with the vast majority of forests in developing countries – is among today’s most important environmental questions. Offering conditional conservation payments have been found to be effective in inducing conservation on private lands, but they may give rise to strong free-riding incentives on common property lands. We implement a Randomized Controlled Trial in arid Burkina Faso to test the relative effectiveness of two types of collective conditional payment schemes – a linear group payment scheme, in which group payments increase linearly with tree survival rates, and a threshold group payment scheme. While extant theory predicts the latter incentive mechanism to (weakly) outperform the former, we develop new theory that shows that the reverse may also hold – but only if the relationship between effort and tree survival rates is very uncertain. We find that threshold group payments increase intermediate measures of cooperation, but we also find that – consistent with Burkina Faso’s harsh conditions rendering tree survival quite stochastic – actual survival rates are higher with the linear group payments. We present both field experimental evidence as well as lab-experimental results to explore the mechanisms giving rise to these results.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>If you are interested in <b>meeting Daan van Soest </b>after the seminar<b> </b>(meeting slots of 30’ , room no 05.330 please register via this doodle-link: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;border:none'><tr><td style='border-top:solid #D4DADE 1.0pt;border-left:solid #D4DADE 1.0pt;border-bottom:none;border-right:none;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'></td><td width=12 style='width:9.0pt;border-top:solid #D4DADE 1.0pt;border-left:none;border-bottom:none;border-right:solid #D4DADE 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'></td></tr><tr style='height:9.75pt'><td style='border-top:none;border-left:solid #D4DADE 1.0pt;border-bottom:solid #D4DADE 1.0pt;border-right:none;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:9.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%'>https://doodle.com/poll/dhmidphz9c3p6dxw?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=12 style='width:9.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #D4DADE 1.0pt;border-right:solid #D4DADE 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:9.75pt'></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Best regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Wieland Müller</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>