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Increasingly Contested Property Rights and Trading in Environmental Amenities

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  • Michael McKee
  • Kenneth Baker

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Evolving environmental laws have expanded the number of agents with legitimate environmental property rights. Injunctive remedies to increasingly contested exchanges affect the value of the right itself, and therefore the behavior of potentialt raders. Recent amendments to New Mexico Water Law provide an excellent opportunity to explore these effects. We explore the behavior of traders given a decrease in the probability of successfully completing a transaction. Our experiments show traders have a propensity to over-respond to the threat of injunctive remedies, and consequently reduce their volume of trades below the privately optimal volume of trades.

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  • Michael McKee & Kenneth Baker, 2000. "Increasingly Contested Property Rights and Trading in Environmental Amenities," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 76(3), pages 333-344.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:landec:v:76:y:2000:i:3:p:333-344
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    1. Garrick, Dustin & Whitten, Stuart M. & Coggan, Anthea, 2013. "Understanding the evolution and performance of water markets and allocation policy: A transaction costs analysis framework," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 88(C), pages 195-205.

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    • K11 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - Property Law
    • Q25 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Water

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