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Right-to-Choose Auctions: A Field Study of Water Markets in the Limari Valley of Chile
2010
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review
Field experiments were conducted with farmers in the Limari Valley of Chile to test extant theory on right-to-choose auctions. Water volumes that differed by reservoir source and time of availability were offered for sale by the research team. The auctions were supplemented by protocols to elicit risk and time preferences of bidders. We find that the right-to-choose auctions raise significantly more revenue than the benchmark sequential auction. Risk attitudes explain a substantial amount of
doi:10.1017/s1068280500007255
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