Journal Publications
The Economics of Indigenous Water Claim Settlements in the American West. In press.
with Leslie Sanchez and Bryan Leonard. Environmental Research Letters.
Predator-Prey Dynamics in General Equilibrium and the Role of Trade. 2020.
with Dong-Hun Go and Reza Oladi. Resource and Energy Economics, vol. 61, 101174.
Irrigation Investment on an American Indian Reservation. 2020.
with Muyang Ge and Sherzod Akhundjanov. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 102(4), pp.1083-1104.
CEnREP Working Paper No. 18-017
Summary: Investment and Irrigation on an American Indian Reservation
The Cost of Addressing Saline Lake Decline and the Potential for Water Conservation Markets. 2019.
with Sarah Null. Science of the Total Environment, vol. 651 Part 1, 19, pp. 435-442.
Summary: Innovative markets could protect the world’s endangered saline lakes on the cheap
The Role of Irrigation in the Development of Agriculture in the United States. 2018.
with Steven Smith. Journal of Economic History, vol. 78 no. 4, pp. 1-39.
Summary: Water access key driver of long-term agricultural productivity in western U.S.
An Illiquid Market in the Desert: Estimating the Cost of Water Trade Restrictions in Northern Chile. 2018.
with Gary Libecap, Oscar Cristi, and Gonzalo Edwards. Environment and Development Economics, vol. 23 no. 6, pp. 615-634.
Summary: The cost of water regulation in northern Chile
How Transaction Costs Obstruct Collective Action: Evidence from California's Groundwater. 2018.
with Andrew Ayres and Gary Libecap. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, vol. 91, pp. 46-65.
Summary: Collective management of shared water resource is easier said than done
Economic Insight from Utah’s Water Efficiency Supply Curve. 2017.
with Ryan Bosworth, Amber Burrows*, Patrick Adams*, Vivane Baji*, Shelly Jones*, and Coleman Gerdes*. Water, 9(3): 214;
*USU undergraduate researchers
Link to spreadsheet with data and analysis
What Lies Beneath? Aquifer Heterogeneity and the Economics of Groundwater Management. 2016.
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 3 no. 2, pp. 453-91.
Link to dataset and code in HydroShare
with Quentin Grafton, Gary Libecap, Bob O'Brien, and Clay Landry. Water Policy, 14(2):175-93.
Working Papers
An Economic Framework for Comparing Groundwater Governance Across the Globe, with Todd Guilfoos (revision requested for featured article in Applied Economics Perspectives and Policy)
CEnREP Working Paper No. 20-001
Community Impacts of Fishery Privatization with Sara Sutherland (submitted)
CEnREP Working Paper No. 19-018
Sooner or Safer? Bureaucracy in Oil and Gas Production with Trevor O'Grady and David Jenkins (manuscript in preparation)
CEnREP Working Paper No. 19-017
The Long-Term Outcomes of Different Property Rights Allocations to Frontier Land: A Comparison of the Temperate US and Argentina, with Martin Fiszbein and Gary Libecap (manuscript in preparation)
Regional Water Trade in General Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence, with Sherzod Akhundjanov, Muyang Ge, and Reza Oladi (manuscript in preparation)
Technological Change and Climatic Resiliency: Evidence from Irrigation in the United States, with Steven M. Smith (manuscript in preparation)
Selected In-Progress Papers
Drainage Districts and the Private Provision of Public Goods, with Casey Rozowski and Wally Thurman
Water Demand Response to Un-conservation Pricing, with Sherzod Akhundjanov and Sara Sutherland
Book Chapters
The Colonial Origins of Diverse Property-Rights to Land and the Long-Term Economic Implications in North and South America, with Martin Fiszbein and Gary Libecap. Forthcoming in Ernst Nordtveit and Erich Schanze eds. The Changing Role of
Property Law; Rights, Values, and Concepts, Edward Elgar.
Contracting and the Commons: Linking the Insight of Elinor Ostrom and Gary Libecap. 2020.
with Bryan Leonard. The Environmental Optimism of Elinor Ostrom, Center for Growth and Opportunity, pp.149-172. (Peer-reviewed)
Water Institutions and the Law of One Price. 2015.
with Gary Libecap. R. Halvorsen and D.F. Layton eds. Handbook on the Economics of Natural Resources, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 442-473.
Other Publications
Branan, A. Edwards, E.C., Huchens, A., and Sutherland, S.A. 2019. North Carolinians Benefit from Water Pollution Credit Trading. NC State Economist. Fall 2019.
Edwards, E.C., Nehra, A. 2020 (forthcoming). Importance of Freshwater for Irrigation. M. Goldstein and D. DellaSala Eds. Encyclopedia of the World’s Biomes 1st Edition.
Edwards, E.C., Sutherland, S.A., and Von Haefen, R.H. 2019. Should I Stay or Should I Go? Coal Ash in North Carolina. NC State Economist. Winter 2019.
Edwards, E.C. and Sutherland, S.A. 2019. A Guide to Municipal Water Conservation Pricing in Utah. USU Extension Factsheet. 2019. (Peer-reviewed)
Ayres, A. and Edwards, E.C. 2018. Groundwater depletion, contracting costs, and the determinants of successful collective action. UNESCO Global Water Forum.
Edwards, E.C. and Sutherland, S.A. 2018. Yesterday’s Nobel Prize and North Carolina Agriculture. NC State Agricultural and Resource Economics News, October 9, 2018.
Edwards, E.C., Sutherland, S.A., and Von Haefen, R.H. 2018. Coal Ash After Hurricane Florence. NC State Agricultural and Resource Economics News, October 1, 2018.
Edwards, E.C., Sutherland, S.A. 2017. Lobbying in Fathali M. Moghaddam ed. SAGE Encyclopedia of Political Behavior, SAGE Publications, Inc. Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 448-451.
Book Review: Chasing Water: A Guide for Moving From Scarcity to Sustainability. 2016. Water Economics and Policy, vol. 2 no. 2.
Summary: An illiquid market in the desert. 2016. UNESCO Global Water Forum.
Summary: What lies beneath? Aquifer heterogeneity and the economics of collective action. 2014. UNESCO Global Water Forum.