Some costs of incomplete property rights with regard to federal grazing permits

Land Economics

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 171-185

  Egan, Lorraine M ^a   Watts, Myles J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAZING PERMITS; LAND MARKET; LAND USES; PROPERTY RIGHTS; RANCHING;

USA;

EID: 0031722137     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3147049     Document Type: Article

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