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Gary D. Libecap
Born1946
Montana
NationalityAmerican
Alma materB.A. in Economics from the University of Montana in 1968. M.A. and Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania, 1969 and 1976.
AwardsDistinguished Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara; Erskine Professor, Canterbury University, New Zealand (2019); Pitt Professor, American History and Institutions, Cambridge University (2010-11); Fellow, Cliometrics Society (2016- ); President of the Economic History Association (2006); President of the Western Economics Association International (2005); President of the International Society for the New Institutional Economics (Society for Organizational and Institutional Economics (2004).
Scientific career
FieldsEconomic history, Natural Resources, Property Rights and Regulation
InstitutionsResearch Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research; Research Group on Political Institutions and Economic Policy, Harvard University;Senior Fellow, Property and Environment Research Center, Bozeman.
Doctoral advisor[Oliver Williamson, Richard Easterlin
Other academic advisorsJoseph D. Reid, Jr., Douglass C. North
Doctoral studentsJoe Bial, Zeynep Hansen, Trevor O Grady, Dan Szmurlo, Brian Leonard, Eric Edwards, Andrew Ayres, Zack Donohew

Gary Don Libecap (born 1946) is a Distinguished Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of California Santa Barbara.[1] Libecap is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research; a senior fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center, and a member of the Research Group on Political Institutions and Economic Policy, Harvard University.[2][3] He was the Erskine Professor at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 2019; Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge University 2010–11, and was previously the Anheuser Busch Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, Economics, and Law at the University of Arizona.[4]

Libecap's research focuses on the role of property rights institutions in addressing the open access losses for natural resources such as fisheries and freshwater, as well as the role of water markets in encouraging efficient use and allocation.[3] Libecap has authored or coauthored over 200 scholarly papers in peer-reviewed journals, has lectured widely, and written articles that have appeared in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.[2][5][6]

Other Institutions

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  • University of Canterbury
  • University of Arizona
  • Cambridge University
  • Texas A&M University
  • University of New Mexico
  • University of Paris
  • Free University of Berlin

Appointed Positions

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  • Member, Global Think Tank on Wild Ocean Fisheries Management, World Wildlife Fund, 2015–2017.
  • Advisory Committee: Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University, 2015–2017.
  • Advisory Group: Water in the West, Stanford Woods Institute and Bill Lane Center, Stanford University, 2015–2017.
  • Fellow, the Economics and Science Group, Australian National University, 2015–2017.
  • Advisor Committee, UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, IGCC, 2013–16
  • Member, Scientific Committee, International Center for Economic Research, Turin Italy, 2007-2014
  • Member, Advisory Committee on Environmental Research and Education, National Science Foundation, 2005–08
  • Member of various NSF research review panels.
  • Board of Advisors, Ronald Coase Institute, 2000-

Books

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Selected publications

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References

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  1. ^ "Bren School - Faculty - Gary Libecap". www.bren.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-26.
  2. ^ a b "Gary Libecap | PERC – The Property and Environment Research Center". www.perc.org. Retrieved 2017-02-26.
  3. ^ a b "Gary D. Libecap". Hoover Institution. 2017. Retrieved 2017-02-26.
  4. ^ "Gary Libecap's home page". www.u.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-26.
  5. ^ "Will Trump Find the E.P.A. Isn't Just for Tree Huggers?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-02-26.
  6. ^ Glennon, Robert; Libecap, Gary (2014-10-23). "The West Needs a Water Market to Fight Drought". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2017-02-26.