Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0988368

Funding Activity

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Funded Activity Summary

Presumed Guilty: An Economics Analysis of the Efficiency of Environmental Bonds for the WA Mining Sector. Environmental bonds have two important economic effects. First they give an incentive for mining firms to manage environmental damage and second they prevent excessive costs falling on the regulator in the case of bankruptcy. The aim of this project is to assess if this policy can be redesigned to increase its economic efficiency.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 31-12-2011

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $130,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Applied Economics | Environment And Resource Economics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Other Keywords

Applied Economics | Environment And Resource Economics | Mining and Extraction