In this article we adapt Burtless and Hausman's (1978) methodology in order to estimate farmers' demand for irrigation water under increasing block-rate tariffs and empirically assess its effect on aggregate demand and inter-farm allocation efficiency. This methodology overcomes the technical...

We characterize the political equilibrium in a game in which the use of a natural resource is controlled by a hybrid policy that integrates a uniform price and user-specific quotas. Because lower quotas reduce the benefits of the resource users from a lowered price, and a higher price diminishes...