Governing Scarcity. Water markets, equity and efficiency in pre-1950s eastern Spain

dc.contributor.author	Garrido, Samuel
dc.date.accessioned	2010-12-16T08:18:06Z
dc.date.available	2010-12-16T08:18:06Z
dc.date.issued	2010-12
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10234/20333
dc.description.abstract	It is usually taken for granted that the existence of water markets allows economic efficiency gains to be achieved at the expense of equity losses. This paper addresses the issue by analysing the functioning of the irrigation communities in pre-1950s eastern Spain. While in some of them the water inhered in the land and could not be sold, in others there were tradable water rights. In the paper it is shown that, in the former, not only was equity greater but in fact the resource was also used more efficiently.
dc.format.extent	22 p.
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria
dc.relation.isPartOfSeries	Documentos de Trabajo;10-12
dc.rights.uri	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/	*
dc.subject	water markets
dc.subject	Spain
dc.subject	irrigation communities
dc.subject	efficiency
dc.subject	equity
dc.title	Governing Scarcity. Water markets, equity and efficiency in pre-1950s eastern Spain
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
dc.subject.jel	Q01
dc.subject.jel	Q25
dc.subject.jel	N53
dc.subject.jel	N54
dc.rights.accessRights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess