Faculty : Gary Libecap

	Anheuser Busch Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, Economics, and Law
	Natural Resources, Property Rights and Regulation, Economic History
	Phone:	520.621.4821
	Fax:	520.621.8450
	Email:	glibecap@eller.arizona.edu
	Website:	http://www.u.arizona.edu/~libecapg
	Office:	McClelland Hall, Room 401W

Current Research

Professor Libecap is working on two topics: The development of water markets and transfers; farmsize, land use, and environmental effects.

Karl Eller Center Director Gary Libecap named Robert Wesson Fellow at the Hoover Institute.

Recent Research Papers

• "Small Farms, Externalities, and the Dust Bowl of the 1930s," Journal of Political Economy, 2004, with Zeynep Hansen.
• "The Allocation of Property Rights to Land: U.S. Land Policy and Farm Failure in the Great Plains," Explorations in Economic History, 2004, with Zeynep Hansen.
• "Transactions Costs and Coalition Stability Under Majority Rule," Economic Inquiry, with Ronald Johnson, 2003.
• "The Economic Evolution of Petroleum Property Rights in the United States," Journal of Legal Studies, 2003, with James Smith.
• "The Contribution of Entrepreneurship Education: A Case Study," International Journal of Entrepreneurship Education, 2003, with Alberta Charney.
• " 'Rain Follows the Plow' and Dryfarming Doctrine: The Climate Information Problem and Homestead Failure in the Upper Great Plains, 1890-1925," Journal of Economic History, 2002, with Zeynep Hansen.
• "Regulatory Remedies to the Common Pool: The Limits to Oil Field Unitization," Energy Journal, 2001 with James Smith.
• "The Effect of Cost Heterogeneity in the Success and Failure of the New Deal's Agricultural and Industrial Programs," Explorations in Economic History, 2000, with Barbara Alexander.
• "Information Distortion and Competitive Remedies in Government Transfer Programs: The Case of Ethanol," The Economics of Governance, 2001, with Ronald N. Johnson.
• "Property Rights to Land and Land Reform: Legal Inconsistencies and the Sources of Violent Conflict in the Brazilian Amazon," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2000, with Lee Alston and Bernardo Mueller.
• "The Self-Enforcing Provisions of Oil and Gas Unit Operating Agreements: Theory and Evidence," Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 1999, with James Smith.
• "A Model of Rural Conflict: Violence and Land Reform Policy in Brazil," Environment and Development Economics, 4 (1999): 135-60. Lee Alston, Gary Libecap and Bernardo Mueller.
• "Unitization," The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, Peter Newman, ed., 1998
• "Common Property," The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, Peter Newman, ed., 1998
• "Environmental Regulation and Federalism," Arizona Law Review, 1996.
• "The Determinants and Impact of Property Rights: Land Titles on the Brazilian Frontier," with Lee Alston and Robert Schneider, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 1996.
• "Courts, A Protected Bureaucracy, and Reinventing Government,"with R.N. Johnson, Arizona Law Review, 1995.
• "Property Rights and the Preconditions for Markets: The Case of the Amazon Frontier,"with Lee Alston and Robert Schneider, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics,1995.
• "The Failure of Government-Sponsored Cartelization and the Development of Federal Farm Policy,"with Elizabeth Hoffman, Economic Inquiry, 1995.
• "Land, Property Rights, and Privitization in Brazil,"with Bernardo Mueller, Lee Alston, and Robert Schneider,Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance,Special issue, 1994.
• "The Conditions for Successful Collective Action," Journal of Theoretical Politics, 1994, pp. 569-598. Reprinted in Robert Keohane and Elinor Ostrom, eds., Local Commons and Global Interdependence, Sage Publications.
• "Patronage to Merit and Control of the Federal Government Labor Force," with R.N. Johnson, Explorations in Economic History, 1994.
• "The Rise of the Chicago Packers and the Origins of Meat Inspection and Antitrust," Economic Inquiry, April 1992. Selected Selected by the Editorial Board as the "Best Article for 1992"
• "Bureaucratic Issues and Environmental Concerns: A Review of The History of Federal Land Ownership and Management," Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, 1992.
• "Institution Choice and the Development of U.S. Agricultural Policies in the 1920's," with Elizabeth Hoffman, Journal of Economic History, June 1991.
• "Public Sector Employee Voter Participation and Salaries," with R.N. Johnson, Public Choice, January 1991.
• "Comments on Elnor Ostrom's 'Microconstitutional Political Systems'," Rationality and Society, January,1990.