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Property Rights, Land Conflict and Tenancy in Brazil

Alston, Lee J.; Mueller, Bernardo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Tenancy has been a means for labor to advance their socio-economic condition in agriculture yet in Brazil and Latin …

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Institutional Path Dependence in Climate Adaptation: Coman's "Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation"

Libecap, Gary D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Katharine Coman's "Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation," published in March 1911 in the first issue of the American … and irrigation districts that emerged in the American West in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in response to …

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Water Markets in the West: Prices, Trading, and Contractual Forms

Libecap, Gary D.; Brewer, Jedidiah; Glennon, Robert; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

of water transfers across 12 western states from 1987-2005. We find that prices are higher for agriculture …-to-urban trades versus within-agriculture trades, in part, reflecting the differences in marginal values between the two uses. Prices … for urban use are also growing relative to agricultural use. Markets are responding in that the number of agriculture …

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Climate Variability and Water Infrastructure: Historical Experience in the Western United States

Libecap, Gary D.; Hansen, Zeynep K.; Lowe, Scott E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Greater historical perspective is needed to enlighten current debate about future human responses to higher temperatures and increased precipitation variation. We analyze the impact of climatic conditions and variability on agricultural production in five semi-arid western states. We assemble...

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An Integrated Assessment of Water Markets: Australia, Chile, China, South Africa and the USA

Libecap, Gary D.; Grafton, R. Quentin; Landry, Clay; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

The paper provides an integrated framework to assess water markets in terms of their institutional underpinnings and the three 'pillars' of integrated water resource management: economic efficiency, equity and environmental sustainability. This framework can be used: (1) to benchmark different...

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Water Markets: Australia's Murray-Darling Basin and the US Southwest

Libecap, Gary D.; Grafton, R. Quentin; Landry, Clay; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Fresh water supplies increasingly are under stress in many parts of the world due to rising populations, higher per capita incomes and corresponding consumption, greater environmental concerns, and the effects of climate change. Water rights and markets are part of the institutional menus for...

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The Demarcation of Land and the Role of Coordinating Institutions

Libecap, Gary D.; Lueck, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

This paper examines the origins and economic effects of the two dominant land demarcation systems: metes and bounds (MB) and the rectangular system (RS). Under MB property is demarcated by its perimeter as indicated by natural features and human structures and linked to surveys within local...

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De Facto and De Jure Property Rights: Land Settlement and Land Conflict on the Australian, Brazilian and U.S. Frontiers

Alston, Lee J.; Mueller, Bernardo; Harris, Edwyna - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We present a conceptual framework to better understand the interaction between settlement and the emergence of de facto property rights on frontiers prior to governments establishing and enforcing de jure property rights. In this framework, potential rents associated with more exclusivity drives...

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The Assignment of Property Rights on the Western Frontier: Lessons for Contemporary Environmental and Resource Policy

Libecap, Gary D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

In addressing environmental and natural resource problems, there is a move away from primary reliance upon centralized regulation toward assignment of property rights to mitigate the losses of open-access. I examine the assignment of private property rights during the 19th and early 20th...

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Large Scale Institutional Changes: Land Demarcation Within the British Empire

Libecap, Gary D.; Lueck, Dean; O'Grady, Trevor - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

This paper examines the economics of large scale institutional change by studying the adoption of the land demarcation practices within the British Empire during the 17th through 19th Centuries. The advantages of systematic, coordinated demarcation, such as with the rectangular survey, relative...

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