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A behavioural economic analysis of compliance and non-compliance with water-protection and food-safety rules in primary production: a survey- and experiment-based study

对初级生产中遵守和不遵守水保护和食品安全规则的行为经济分析：基于调查和实验的研究

基本信息

批准号：
273502918
负责人：
Professor Dr. Norbert Hirschauer
金额：
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依托单位：
Lehrstuhl für Landwirtschaftliche Betriebslehre
依托单位国家：
德国
项目类别：
Research Grants
财政年份：
2015
资助国家：
德国
起止时间：
2014-12-31 至 2018-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/273502918?language=en
关键词：
behavioural economic analysis compliance non

项目摘要

Over the last decades, citizens and policy makers have become increasingly concerned about the challenges related to the agri-food system such as food quality and safety, the free and informed choice of consumers, animal welfare, and environmental protection. Troubled by the negative externalities of food production as well as a great number of food law offences and frauds, citizens and policy makers call for more efforts to identify the failures in food markets and mitigate the corresponding food risks and environmental problems. Applied behavioural studies of what makes primary producers break (or not break) rules in their specific economic and social contexts are as yet scarce. Hence, knowledge gaps persist regarding the design of effective and cost efficient regulatory strategies. Against this background, the proposed research project is aimed at improving the understanding of compliant and non-compliant behaviour in primary production. In this endeavour, we use different conceptions of man both from the realm of economics (narrow and broad rational choice) and psychology (trait theory and theory of planned behaviour) to specify binary outcome models. Necessary data are systematically generated through surveys and experimental approaches (business management games) for two protected interests and contexts: (i) water protection legislation and minimum distance-to-water rules when applying nitrogen fertilizer, and (ii) food safety legislation and minimum waiting periods after pesticide use in fruit/vegetable production. We triangulate the various approaches and assess whether the incidence of compliant and non-compliant behaviour is significantly different in the two decision contexts. We furthermore compare the complying and the non-complying group over both contexts. Going beyond the explanation of behaviour (positive analysis), the project is also aimed to contribute to better regulatory strategies (normative analysis) and thus the prevention of rule-breaking behaviour. The proposed research project is the first one to systematically link economic and psychological conceptions in the attempt to explain behaviour in the two subject areas production of grand cultures/water protection and fruit and vegetable production/food safety. It is also the first one to resort to a systematic generation of primary data in these fields via surveys and experiments that are carried out in the form of business management games with representatives of the group of interest as experimental subjects. We expect that the project will not only improve the understanding of the behaviour of the specific group of study but contribute to the methodological improvement of regulatory impact analysis with its general interest on conditional forecasting. The project will furthermore identify new research needs, especially with regard to the suitability of various conceptual approaches and experimental designs for regulatory impact analysis.

在过去的几十年里，公民和政策制定者越来越关注与农业食品系统相关的挑战，如食品质量和安全，消费者的自由和知情选择，动物福利和环境保护。受粮食生产的负外部性以及大量违反粮食法和欺诈行为的困扰，公民和政策制定者呼吁加大努力，查明粮食市场的缺陷，减轻相应的粮食风险和环境问题。关于初级生产者在其特定经济和社会背景下违反（或不违反）规则的原因的应用行为研究还很少。因此，在设计有效和具有成本效益的监管战略方面，仍然存在知识差距。在此背景下，拟议的研究项目旨在提高对初级生产中合规和违规行为的认识。在这一努力中，我们使用了来自经济学（狭义和广义理性选择）和心理学（特质理论和计划行为理论）领域的不同的人的概念来指定二元结果模型。通过调查和实验方法（商业管理游戏）系统地生成必要的数据，用于两个受保护的利益和背景：（i）水保护立法和施用氮肥时的最小距离水规则，以及（ii）食品安全立法和水果/蔬菜生产中使用农药后的最短等待期。我们三角的各种方法，并评估是否符合和不符合行为的发生率是显着不同的两个决策的背景下。此外，我们比较了遵守和不遵守组在这两种情况下。除了解释行为（实证分析）之外，该项目还旨在促进更好的监管战略（规范分析），从而防止违规行为。拟议的研究项目是第一个系统地将经济和心理概念联系起来的项目，试图解释大文化生产/水资源保护和水果和蔬菜生产/食品安全这两个主题领域的行为。它也是第一个通过调查和实验系统地生成这些领域的原始数据的机构，这些调查和实验是以商业管理游戏的形式进行的，利益集团的代表作为实验对象。我们希望该项目不仅能提高对特定研究组行为的理解，而且有助于改进监管影响分析的方法，并对有条件预测产生普遍兴趣。该项目还将确定新的研究需要，特别是关于各种概念方法和实验设计对监管影响分析的适用性。