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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Groundwater markets"”.
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Properties of natural systems and the efficiency of market-based solutions to environmental externalities
… whether adopting spatially differentiated groundwater markets leads to significant savings in abatement cost while protecting nearby streams. Although the marginal damage of groundwater use on stream flows depends crucially on the location of pumping relative to streams, I find that …
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Three Essays on Groundwater and Tenancy Contracts in Rural Economies
… in hand deals with the phenomenon of informal markets for water and land in the agricultural sector of developing countries with a special emphasis on India. In the first part, I present data from a field study on informal groundwater markets conducted by myself in Tamil Nadu, India during …
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Three essays on the economics of water management in agriculture
… dissertation is on agricultural systems that use groundwater as a source of irrigation. The first essay is an empirical study of the role of trading ratios and search frictions in a groundwater market with spatial externalities. Econometric results suggest that the use of trading ratios can indeed …