COLONIAL ORIGINS, PROPERTY RIGHTS, AND THE ORGANIZATION OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; THE US MIDWEST AND ARGENTINE PAMPAS COMPARED, 27750
COASEAN APPRACHES TO ENDING OVERFISHING; BIGEYE TUNA CONSERVATION IN THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL PACIFIC OCEAN, #27801
FEDERAL LANDS, OPPORTUNITY COSTS, AND BUREAUCRATIC MANAGEMENT #24705
ADAPTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE, #24645
DOUGLASS C. NORTH: TRANSACTION COSTS, PROPERTY RIGHTS, AND ECONOMIC OUTCOMES #24585
PROPERTY RIGHTS TO FRONTIER LAND AND MINERALS: US EXCEPTIONALISM #24544
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF PROPERTY RIGHTS: FIRST POSSESSION OF WATER IN THE AMERICAN WEST #22185
AN ILLIQUID MARKET IN THE DESERT: THE ROLE OF INTEREST GROUPS IN SHAPING ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION #2186
COASEAN BARGAINING TO ADDRESS ENVIRONMENTAL EXTERNALITIES #21903
Hamilton Project & Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Shopping for Water: How the Market Can Mitigate Water Shortages in the American West
Additional
Interest Groups, Information Manipulation in the Media, and Public Policy: The Case of the Landless Peasants Movement in Brazil, 2008 with Lee Alston and Bernardo Mueller
Climate Variability and Water Infrastructure: Historical Patterns on Crop Production and Flood Control with Zeynep Hansen and Scott Lowe
Selected Publications
BOOK REVIEW: Journal of Economic Literature 2024 Liquid Asset by Barton H. Thompson
Property Rights to Land and Agricultural Organization: An Argentina-United States Comparison, Eric C. Edwards, Martin Fiszbein, and Gary D. Libecap, lead article in honor of Harold Demsetz, May 2022, Journal of Law and Economics.
“The Colonial Origins of Diverse Property-Rights to Land and the Long-Term Economic Implications in North and South America,” Eric C. Edwards, Martin Fiszbein and Gary D. Libecap, in Ernst Nordtveit, editor, The Changing Role of Property Law; Rights, Values, and Concepts, Edward Elgar. 2023.
“Land Demarcation in Ancient Rome,” Gary D. Libecap and Dean Lueck, in “Roman Law and Economics Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci and Dennis P. Kehoe (eds.), Vol. 2, Oxford University Press, Oxford Studies in Roman Society and Law Tom McGinn and Paul Du Plessis, eds. 2019.
“Property Rights to Frontier Land and Minerals: US Exceptionalism” Handbook of Cliometrics, Michael Haupert and Claude Diebolt, eds, 2019.
“Property Rights,” Handbook in American Economic History, Price Fishback, Louis Cain, and Paul Rhode Ed, Oxford University Press 2018.
“Coasean Bargaining to Address Environmental Externalities,” Elodie Bertrand and Claude Menard, Eds, The Elgar Companion to Ronald Coase, 2016.
“Water Sales, Pecuniary Externalities and Local Development: Chinatown Revisited,” Handbook on Water Economics and Institutions, James Roumasset and Christopher Wada eds, Earthscan, Routledge, 2015.
Coasean Approaches to Ending Overfishing: Bigeye Tuna Conservation in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean,” Daniel Ovando, Gary D. Libecap, Katherine D. Millage, and Lennon Thomas, 2020, Marine Resource Economics.
The Critical Role of Markets in Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Change Economics, January 2019
Principles and Practices to Enable Incentive Based Change in (Tuna) Fisheries in ABNJ
Federal Lands: The Lands of Many Opportunity Costs, Cato Institute, Regulation Vol 41 No. 3 (Fall 2018)
Augmenting Summer Streamflow: Innovative Approach in the Teton River, Idaho, Water Policy #173 (pg. 10-17) 2018, with Kate Burchenal, Morgan Campbell, Lucy Hedley, Emily Honn, and Tessa Reeder
Collective Action by Contract: Prior Appropriation and the Development of Irrigation in the Western United States 2018 Journal of Law and Economics, with Bryan Leonard.
Water Markets as Adaptation to Climate Change in the Wester United States, Water Economics and Policy 2018 4(3)
An Illiquid Market in the Desert: Estimating the Cost of Water Trade Restrictions in Northern Chile 2018 Environmental and Development Economics, with Eric Edwards, Oscar Cristi, and Gonzalo Edwards
How Transaction Costs Obstruct Collective Action: The Case of California’s Groundwater forthcoming 2018 Journal of Environment Economics and Management, with Andrew Ayres and Eric Edwards
Expanding Water Markets in the Western United States: Barriers and Lessons from Other Natural Resource Markets, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 2018, with Bryan Leonard and Christopher Costello
Addressing Global Environmental Externalities: Transaction Costs Considerations Journal of Economic Literature 2014
Large Scale Institutional Changes: Land Demarcation within the British Empire Journal of Law and Economics 2012, with Trevor O'Grady and Dean Lueck
The Demarcation of Land and the Role of Coordinating Institutions, Journal of Political Economy, with Dean Lueck, June 2011.
Efficiency Advantages of Grandfathering in Rights-Based Fisheries Management, co author, 2011, Annual Review of Environment and Resource Economics.
A Comparative Assessment of Water Markets: Insights from the Murray-Darling Basin of Australia and the Western US R. Quentin Grafton, Gary D. Libecap ,Eric C. Edwards, R.J. (Bob) O'Brien, Clay Landry, Water Policy, 2011
Institutional Path Dependence in Climate Adaptation: Coman's "Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation", February 2011, American Economic Review
An Integrated Assessment of Water Markets: A Cross-Country Comparison, with Grafton, R.Q.; McGlennon, S.; Landry, C.; O'Brien, B., Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2011, Vol. 5 No. 2, pp. 219-239
The Demarcation of Land and the Role of Coordinating Institutions with Dean Lueck, June 2011, Journal of Political Economy
The Economic Institutions of Water, National Bureau of Economic Research Reporter, 2011
Water Rights and Markets in the U.S. Semi-Arid West: Efficiency and Equity Issues, The Evolution of Property Rights Related to Land and Natural Resources, Property in Land and Other Resources, Edited by Daniel H. Cole & Elinor Ostrom, November 2011
Water Woes: Using Markets to Quench the Thirst of the American West Milken Institute Quarterly, October 2010, 58-68
Property Rights and The Public Trust Doctrine in Environmental Protection and Natural Resource Conservation with Jedidiah Brewer, 2009 Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Vol. 53 No. 1, pp.1-17
Law and the New Institutional Economics: Water Markets and Legal Change in California, 1987-2005, 2008 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 26: 186-214 with Jedidiah Brewer, Michael Fleishman, Robert Glennon, and Alan Ker
Open-Access Losses and Delay in the Assignment of Property Rights 2008 Arizona Law Review 50 (2): 379-408
Positioning Fisheries in a Changing World, 2008 Marine Policy 32 (4) 630-34 with R. Quentin Grafton, RayHillborn, Lori Ridgeway, Dale Squires, Meryl Williams, Serge Garcia, Theodore Groves, James Joseph, KieranKelliher, Tom Kompas, Gary D. Libecap, Carl Gustaf Lundin, Mitsutaku Makino, Thorolfur Matthiasson, Richard McLouglin, Anna Parma, Gustavo San Martin, Ben Satia, Carl-Christian Schmidt, Mariee Tait, LinXiu Zhang
Chinatown Revisited: Owens Valley and Los Angeles - Bargaining Costs and Fairness Perceptions of the First Major Water Rights Exchange 2008 Journal of Law Economics and Organization 24(2)
Water Markets in the West: Prices, Trading and Contractual Forms, 2008 Economic Inquiry 46(2): 91-112 with Jedidiah Brewer, Robert Glennon, and Alan Ker
Assigning Property Rights in the Common Pool. Implications of the Prevalence of First-Possession Rules for ITQs in Fisheries 2007 Marine Resource Economics, 22(1): 407-24
Transferring Water in the American West: 1987-2005, 2007 Michigan Journal of Law Reform 40(4): 1021-53 with Jedidiah Brewer, Robert Glennon, and Alan Ker
The Assignment of Property Rights on the Western Frontier: Lessons for Contemporary Environmental and Resource Policy, 2007 Journal of Economic History 67(2): 257-91
Small Farms, Externalities, and the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, 2004 Journal of Political Economy 112(3): 665-94 with Zeynep Hansen
Regulatory Remedies to the Common Pool: The Limits to Oil Field Unitization, 2001 Energy Journal 22(1): 1-26 with James Smith
The Determinants and Impact of Property Rights: Land Titles on the Brazilian Frontier, 1996 Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 12 (1): 25-60 with Lee Alston and Robert Schneider
The Self-Enforcing Provisions of Oil and Gas Unit Operating Agreements: Theory and Evidence, 1999 Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 15(2): 526-48 with James Smith
Oil Field Unitization: Contractual Failure in the Presence of Imperfect Information, 1985 American Economic Review 75(3): 368-85 with S. N. Wiggins
The Influence of Private Contractual Failure on Regulation: The Case of Oil Field Unitization, 1985 Journal of Political Economy 93(4): 690-714 with S.N. Wiggins
Contractual Responses to the Common Pool: Prorationing of Crude Oil Production, 1984 American Economic Review 74(1): 87-97 with S.N. Wiggins
Contracting Problems and Regulation: The Case of the Fishery, 1982 American Economic Review 72(5): 1005-22 with R. N. Johnson
