Exchanges of either long term rights (property right transfer) or spot rights (rights rental) to water may result in third party effects that place practical limits on the geographic scope of a water market. The result will be a market with few eligible participants. A "thin" market suffers from...

Some environmental problems transcend national boundaries and pose issues for international as well as domestic policies. The impacts of domestic environmental policy on the welfare of output and input suppliers are evaluated using a partial vertically integrated model. The model includes...

This dissertation examines annual price data of two resources, copper and zinc, to test the hypothesis that these resources have become more scarce during the years 1870 to 1985. A theoretical model is developed which incorporates the effects of endogenous technological change and monopolistic...