Contracting and the Commons: Linking the Insights of Gary Libecap and Elinor Ostrom
Bryan Leonard, Eric Edwards May 1, 2020Elinor Ostrom's work presents a "third way" of governing the commons.
Academic Papers
PERC scholars regularly publish academic papers on market-based approaches to environmental conservation. These abstracts showcase research done at PERC or as part of PERC fellowships.
Resource Governance in the American West: Institutions, Information, and Incentives
P.J. Hill, Shawn Regan May 1, 2020Elinor Ostrom’s influential work provides useful insights into the various institutional frameworks for resource governance in the American West.
Land Quality, Land Rights, and Indigenous Poverty
Bryan Leonard, Dominic Parker, Terry Anderson January 30, 2020The role of fractionation and land quality in suppressing income growth on American Indian reservations.
Property in Ecology
Jonathan Adler May 17, 2019A new collection of papers on the role of property rights to ecological resources in environmental protection.
Second Generation Property Rights
Katrina M. Wyman May 17, 2019How to address misallocations in property rights.
Instream Flow Rights within the Prior Appropriation Doctrine: Insights from Colorado
Steven M. Smith May 17, 2019The role of water transfers or appropriations in protecting instream flows.
Waters of the States
Joseph Regalia, Noah Hall May 17, 2019The nature of state powers and rights over the water within their territorial boundaries is unclear.
American Prairie Reserve: Protecting Wildlife Habitat on a Grand Scale
James Huffman May 17, 2019The American Prairie Reserve is a useful case study of the potential role for markets in the future use and management of public grasslands.
Externality: Origins and Classifications
Roger Meiners, Donald J. Boudreaux May 17, 2019An idea of the extent of the use of externalities
Development Derailed: Railroad Land Grants and Irrigation in the Western United States
Eric Alston January 8, 2019An analysis of how uncertain property rights – exogenously generated by railroad land grants – stymied irrigation investment and economic development on the Western frontier.