Natural resource production under divided ownership: Evidence from coalbed methane

Review of Law and Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 719-757

  Fitzgerald, Timothy ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84879358855     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15555879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/1555-5879.1575     Document Type: Article

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