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Temporary water transfers, as achievable under option contracts, capture gains from trade that would go unrealized if only permanent transfers of water rights were possible. This paper develops a bilateral option contracting model for water which includes ...

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Private sector participation and liberalisation call for a greater and more efficient role for sector‐specific regulation. This necessitates a balanced and stable institutional regulatory framework to accommodate both public intervention and market dynamic ...

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Visual modeling languages have specialized diagrams to represent behavior and concepts. This diagram specialization has drawbacks like the dif-ficulty to represent the effects of actions. We claim that visual contracts can de-scribe actions in a more compl ...

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