Unitization of spatially connected renewable resources

B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Kaffine, Daniel T ^a   Costello, Christopher ^b  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

fisheries; property rights; spatial bioeconomics; unitization

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953679311     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19351682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1935-1682.2714     Document Type: Article

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