Simple and Approximately Optimal Contracts for Payment for Ecosystem Services

The authors thank Andrew Plantinga for generously sharing data from Mason and Plantinga (2013) for the numerical simulation section. The authors also thank (in random order) Jim Leape, Lassi Ahlvik, Ben Roth, Alex Teytelboym, John Weyant, Seema Jayachandran, Eli Fenichel, Gretchen Daily, Ramesh Johari, Ilya Segal, two anonymous referees, the associate editor, the departmental editor, and seminar participants at the 2021 INFORMS Workshop on Market Design, the Surrey Business School Workshop on Public Policy and Deforestation, the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics, the 2020 Mechanism Design for Social Good workshop, the 2019 INFORMS annual conference, and the Stanford Natural Capital Project for helpful comments.