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Water Agencies' Distribution and Inefficiency Under Different Decision Rules

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Title Water Agencies' Distribution and Inefficiency Under Different Decision Rules
Creator Howitt, Richard Zetland, David
Description Water management organizations often distribute water among members according to a political decision function (e.g., voting, historical delivery, etc.) -- not economic functions of willingness to pay or shadow values. As a result, scarce water supplies are lost to some members and found by others, leading to, respectively, over-conservation or over-use of water by the members. We find analytical equilibria with a two-player, game-theoretic model of optimal water distribution under economic...
Date 2006-06-19T07:00:00Z
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Identifier https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/ucowrconfs_2006/1 https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/context/ucowrconfs_2006/article/1107/viewcontent/31.4._Zetland.pdf
Source 2006
Publisher OpenSIUC

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