Informed Principals and Learning Agents: Modeling Outcomes from Federal Grants for Sustainable Energy

知情的校长和学习代理：对联邦可持续能源拨款的结果进行建模

• 批准号: 1127992
• 负责人: Richard Feiock
• 金额: $ 31.71万
• 依托单位: Florida State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-15 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1127992&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Informed; Principals; Learning; Agents; Modeling

In this project the research team will examine how intergovernmental grants shape agents' preferences so that the agents' choices will be influenced beyond the lifespan of a grant program. In particular, the project focuses on how federal grants may shape the preferences of local governments. The work is based on an "informed principals-learning agents" (IP-LA) framework which argues that the information, shared risk, and policy learning produced through grant application and implementation alter the preferences and goals of agents so that the desired behaviors should persist. In this model, preferences are endogenous to strategy, which contrasts with most principal-agent models that assume fixed preferences. The research will analyze the impact of energy efficiency and conservation grants on the energy program and sustainability preferences of local governments and whether municipalities continue existing programs, alter or reconfigure programs, or discontinue them after federal funds have been exhausted.In terms of broader impacts, this work addresses practical policy issues involved in the design and implementation of intergovernmental programs, especially targeted one-shot grants. The outcomes of this research can inform policy designs and implementation strategies, especially in new or rapidly expanding policy arenas such local energy/climate policy.

在这个项目中，研究小组将研究政府间资助如何影响代理人的偏好，从而使代理人的选择在资助项目的生命周期之后受到影响。该项目特别关注联邦拨款如何影响地方政府的偏好。这项工作基于“知情的委托人-学习代理人”（IP-LA）框架，该框架认为，通过拨款申请和实施产生的信息、风险共享和政策学习改变了代理人的偏好和目标，从而使期望的行为得以持续。在这个模型中，偏好是内生的策略，这与大多数假设固定偏好的委托代理模型形成对比。该研究将分析能源效率和节能拨款对地方政府能源计划和可持续性偏好的影响，以及市政当局是否继续现有计划，改变或重新配置计划，或在联邦资金耗尽后停止它们。就更广泛的影响而言，这项工作解决了政府间项目设计和实施中涉及的实际政策问题，特别是有针对性的一次性赠款。这项研究的结果可以为政策设计和实施战略提供信息，特别是在新的或迅速扩大的政策领域，如地方能源/气候政策。