myopic competitive (common) exploitation of groundwater resources to a long-term efficient and sustainable allocation. A … groundwater) and (b) a social planner's model (representing the cooperative and sustainable allocation). The deviation of their … equilibrium state of this system. The two models are then applied in a typical rural area of Greece where groundwater is the only …

and downstream farmers pump groundwater that is lost upstream. Groundwater emerges as an endogenous backstop. The … farmers switch from traditional to modern irrigation technology …

This paper examines how a surface water market affects the performance of a groundwater basin that is in open access …. The market only solves the groundwater over-extraction problem when pumping costs are high, while market failure arises … choices in response to water supply changes. I use a micro level crop choice data to test the theory and find that the farmers …

and downstream farmers pump groundwater that is lost upstream. Groundwater emerges as an endogenous "backstop". The … farmers switch from traditional to modern irrigation technology …

instance, when farmers adopt groundwater extraction technology, they need to learn their private marginal cost and marginal … owners with less experience (owners of new wells) with groundwater technology, extract more water than the experienced owners …. Employing panel data at the district level in a fixed-effects model, we find that groundwater extraction rises as the growth …

-fifth of the groundwater sampling sites in Germany. Apart from impairing the ecosystem by, for example, causing eutrophication … the fertilizer ordinance in 2017, it remains insufficient to effectively combat nitrate pollution of groundwater. As a …

review of selected past water and agriculture reforms and extensive consultation with policy experts. A theory of change is …: charging water use in agriculture; removing subsidies that negatively impact water resources, regulating groundwater use and …

. This paper briefly reviews the current issues in irrigation water pricing, presents an analytical framework for determining … economic value of irrigation water using both the direct and indirect techniques, and the results of a case study of a large …-scale irrigation project located in the Northern Plains of Thailand. The contingent valuation method has been used for measuring farmer …