Optimal Mechanisms for Heterogeneous Multi-Cell Aquifers

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 265-291

  Athanassoglou, Stergios ^a   Sheriff, Glenn ^b   Siegfried, Tobias ^c   Huh, Woonghee Tim ^d  

^a FONDAZIONE ENI ENRICO MATTEI   (Italy)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c HYDROSOLUTIONS LTD   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Common property resource; Differential games; Groundwater extraction; Imperfect monitoring; Markov perfect equilibrium

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; EXTRACTION; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; WATER MANAGEMENT;

COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCES; DIFFERENTIAL GAMES; GROUNDWATER EXTRACTION; IMPERFECT MONITORING; MARKOV PERFECT EQUILIBRIUM;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

AQUIFER; DATA SET; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEITY; HOMOGENEITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LINEARITY; MARKOV CHAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ANDHRA PRADESH; INDIA;

EID: 84860783242     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-011-9528-0     Document Type: Article

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