Advancing Water Trade: A Preliminary Investigation of Urban-Irrigation Options Contracts in the Ovens Basin, Victoria, Australia*

Economic Papers

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 251-266

  Leroux, Anke ^a   Crase, Lin ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

options contracts; Q25; Q29; supply uncertainty; water trade

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855335400     PISSN: 08120439     EISSN: 17593441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-3441.2010.00070.x     Document Type: Article

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