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Measuring Price Elasticities of Demand and Supply of Water Entitlements Based on Stated and Revealed Preference Data

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posted on 2023-05-18, 13:01 authored by Zuo, A, Wheeler, SA, Adamowicz, A, Boxall, P, Darla Hatton MacDonaldDarla Hatton MacDonald
Estimates of price elasticities of water entitlements (known as permanent water or water rights in the United States) are complicated by data limitations and problems of endogeneity. To overcome these issues, we develop an approach to generate stated preference data and combine them with revealed preference data to estimate price elasticities from various types of water entitlement sales in the southern Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Our results suggest that price elasticities of demand and supply of high security water entitlements are inelastic in the relevant market price range between AUD $ 1,700 to $ 2,100 per mega-liter, and that supply is relatively more inelastic than demand. For lower reliability water entitlements, the price elasticity of demand is estimated to be even more inelastic than high security water entitlements. The price elasticity of supply for general security water entitlements is similar to high security water entitlements, while the supply of low reliability water entitlements is extremely inelastic for our data set. The comparison between the stated and revealed preference data provides strong evidence of support for a data fusion approach; nevertheless, some differences in water sale preferences were found for irrigators choosing not to sell all of their water. The consistency of our results signals support for the use of this methodology in other water basins around the world.

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Publication title

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volume

98

Pagination

314-332

ISSN

0002-9092

Department/School

College Office - College of Business and Economics

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Place of publication

United States

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Copyright 2015 The Author Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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  • Open

Socio-economic Objectives

Environmental protection frameworks (incl. economic incentives)

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