Gary D. Libecap

9.6k total citations
151 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Gary D. Libecap is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Ocean Engineering and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Gary D. Libecap has authored 151 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 27 papers in Ocean Engineering and 24 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Gary D. Libecap's work include Water resources management and optimization (27 papers), Land Rights and Reforms (23 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (19 papers). Gary D. Libecap is often cited by papers focused on Water resources management and optimization (27 papers), Land Rights and Reforms (23 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (19 papers). Gary D. Libecap collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Australia. Gary D. Libecap's co-authors include Lee J. Alston, Steven N. Wiggins, Bernardo Mueller, Ronald N. Johnson, Ralph R Schneider, Claudia Goldin, Alberta H. Charney, Dean Lueck, Clay Landry and R. Quentin Grafton and has published in prestigious journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy and The Economic Journal.

In The Last Decade

Gary D. Libecap

144 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gary D. Libecap United States 33 1.8k 942 829 768 683 151 4.4k
Edella Schlager United States 27 596 0.3× 1.7k 1.8× 395 0.5× 594 0.8× 1.0k 1.5× 65 4.0k
Daniel W. Bromley United States 39 2.4k 1.3× 2.3k 2.4× 1.3k 1.6× 465 0.6× 1.3k 2.0× 167 6.9k
H.L.F. de Groot Netherlands 34 3.2k 1.8× 751 0.8× 110 0.1× 486 0.6× 487 0.7× 172 5.3k
Frances Cleaver United Kingdom 26 433 0.2× 1.1k 1.2× 228 0.3× 625 0.8× 1.7k 2.4× 68 4.4k
Krister Andersson United States 33 830 0.5× 2.0k 2.1× 166 0.2× 248 0.3× 856 1.3× 105 3.6k
Terry L. Anderson United States 26 994 0.6× 444 0.5× 284 0.3× 283 0.4× 464 0.7× 99 2.3k
Michael Cox United States 32 449 0.3× 1.6k 1.8× 156 0.2× 378 0.5× 920 1.3× 120 4.0k
Michael Webber Australia 32 729 0.4× 507 0.5× 136 0.2× 456 0.6× 1.2k 1.7× 171 3.8k
Robbert Biesbroek Netherlands 45 848 0.5× 3.1k 3.3× 232 0.3× 213 0.3× 2.3k 3.4× 119 6.2k
Yūjirō Hayami Japan 33 2.5k 1.4× 275 0.3× 1.3k 1.5× 149 0.2× 819 1.2× 137 5.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gary D. Libecap

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Libecap, Gary D.. (2025). Where’s Coase? Transaction costs reduction or rent-seeking in determining US environmental policies. International Review of Law and Economics. 84. 106286–106286. 1 indexed citations
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Leonard, Bryan & Gary D. Libecap. (2015). Endogenous first-possession property rights in open-access resources. Iowa law review. 100(6). 2457–2478. 5 indexed citations
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Leonard, Bryan & Gary D. Libecap. (2015). Economic Analysis of Property Rights: First Possession of Water in the American West. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations
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Libecap, Gary D.. (2011). The political economy of property rights. Ekonomiaz Revista Vasca de Economía. 77(2). 52–63. 1 indexed citations
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Libecap, Gary D.. (2010). Institutional Path Dependence in Climate Adaptation: Coman's. SSRN Electronic Journal. 8 indexed citations
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Libecap, Gary D.. (2010). The economic institutions of water. Econstor (Econstor). 2010(4). 10–13. 1 indexed citations
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Glennon, Robert, et al.. (2008). Law and the New Institutional Economics: Water Markets and Legal Change in California, 1987-2005. Open Scholarship Institutional Repository (Washington University in St. Louis). 26(1). 183–213. 8 indexed citations
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Brousseau, Éric, Oliver E. Williamson, Paul L. Joskow, et al.. (2008). New Institutional Economics. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 87 indexed citations
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Libecap, Gary D.. (2005). Chinatown: Owens Valley and Western Water Reallocation - Getting the Record Straight and What it Means for Water Markets. Texas law review. 83(7). 2055. 9 indexed citations
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Libecap, Gary D.. (2005). The Myth of Owens Valley. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations
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Libecap, Gary D.. (2004). Transaction Costs: Valuation Disputes, Bi-Lateral Monopoly Bargaining and Third-Party Effects in Water Rights Exchanges. The Owens Valley Transfer to Los Angeles. National Bureau of Economic Research. 4 indexed citations
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Hansen, Zeynep K. & Gary D. Libecap. (2000). "Rain Follows the Plow" and Dryfarming Doctrine: The Climate Information Problem and Homestead Failure in the Upper Great Plains, 1890-1925. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations
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Libecap, Gary D.. (1999). The sources of entrepreneurial activity. JAI Press eBooks. 11 indexed citations
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Libecap, Gary D.. (1996). Reinventing government and the problem of bureaucracy. JAI Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Johnson, Ronald N. & Gary D. Libecap. (1994). Replacing Political Patronage with Merit: The Roles of the President and the Congress in the Origins of the Federal Civil Service System. NBER Chapters. 12–47. 3 indexed citations
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Johnson, Ronald N. & Gary D. Libecap. (1994). The Federal Civil Service system and the problem of bureaucracy : the economics and politics of institutional change. Journal of American History. 82(3). 1238. 42 indexed citations
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Johnson, Ronald N. & Gary D. Libecap. (1994). The Federal Civil Service System and the Problem of Bureaucracy. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations
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Libecap, Gary D.. (1986). Entrepreneurship and innovation : the impact of venture capital on the development of new enterprise. JAI Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Wiggins, Steven N. & Gary D. Libecap. (1985). Oil field unitization: contractual failure in the presence of imperfect information. American Economic Review. 75(3). 368–385. 128 indexed citations
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Libecap, Gary D. & Steven N. Wiggins. (1984). Contractual responses to the common pool: prorationing of crude oil production. American Economic Review. 74(1). 87–98. 126 indexed citations

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