Designing property rights for water: Mediating market, government, and corporation failures

Policy Sciences

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 335-351

  Whitford, Andrew B ^a   Clark, Benjamin Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporation failure; Double moral hazard; Government failure; Institutional design; Market failure; Second best solutions; Water rights

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; MARKET SYSTEM; PROPERTY RIGHTS; STAKEHOLDER; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 37449033545     PISSN: 00322687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11077-007-9048-5     Document Type: Article

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