The field of water management is continually changing. Water has been subject to external
shocks in the form of climate change and globalization. Water management analysis is …

Policy analysts and government agencies promote a particular form of what they term water
quality trading as a means to address the most vexing obstacle to meeting water quality …

Agricultural and applied economists have begun routinely using behavioral and
experimental economics tools to answer important questions about agri-environmental …

Water quality credit trading has been advanced as a cost‐effective means of achieving
regulatory compliance. However, the volume of trading activity in operational programs is …

A water quality trading (WQT) program was promulgated in North Carolina to address water
quality issues related to nutrients in the highly urbanizing Jordan Lake Watershed. Although …

Governmental agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and agricultural organizations
promote water quality trading programs as an innovative policy to engage agricultural …

Water quality trading (WQT) programs aim to efficiently reduce pollution through market-
based incentives. However, WQT performance is uneven; while several programs have …

Tradeable permit systems for allocating rights to impact the environment have become an
important part of the regulatory toolkit over the last 35 years. Informed by elegant …

Many watersheds in the US have established water quality trading programs to help realize
cost-effective reductions in water pollution; however, the success of these programs has …

This paper experimentally tests if adding forward trading or tradable entitlements to already
commonly used spot trade in water markets improves allocation and production efficiency …