David Zetland

Leiden University - Leiden University College

Assistant Professor

P.O. Box 13228

Den Haag, 2501EE

Netherlands

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Conflict and Cooperation within an Organization: A Case Study of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California

Number of pages: 176 Posted: 08 May 2008 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2012
David Zetland
Leiden University - Leiden University College
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water, cooperative, utility, California, public managers, experiments, public good, auction

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Water Rights and Human Rights: The Poor Will Not Need our Charity if We Need their Water

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 08 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2012
David Zetland
Leiden University - Leiden University College
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Human rights, property rights, institutions, political-economy, water markets, water quality, MDGs

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Economists Owe Ecology an Apology

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 11 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 10 Oct 2013
David Zetland
Leiden University - Leiden University College
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Ecology, mathematical economics, scientism, GDP

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A Global Survey of Urban Water Tariffs — Are They Sustainable, Efficient and Fair?

International Journal of Water Resources Development, Forthcoming, PERC Research Paper No. 12-20
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 05 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 14 Nov 2012
David Zetland and Christopher Gasson
Leiden University - Leiden University College and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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water tariff, governance, risk, shortage, climate change, elasticity

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The Life and Death of the Dutch Groundwater Tax

Water Policy 15(6):1064-1077
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 23 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2013
Marianne Schuerhoff, Hans-Peter Weikard and David Zetland
Wageningen UR, Wageningen UR - School of Social Sciences and Leiden University - Leiden University College
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Green tax, groundwater, Pigouvian tax, fiscal policy, regulation

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The Real Estate Market Index

Real Estate Finance Journal, pp. 77-91, Fall 2010
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 20 Nov 2006 Last Revised: 17 Sep 2010
David Zetland
Leiden University - Leiden University College
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Real estate, liquidity, index, hot markets, Case-Schiller

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Killing the Golden Goose? Tourism and Deforestation in Nepal

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 18 Feb 2005
David Zetland
Leiden University - Leiden University College
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ecotourism, externalities, property rights, corruption, national parks, international aid, Nepal

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The Political Economy of Land and Water Grabs

PERC Research Paper No. 12-21
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 25 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2013
David Zetland and Jennifer Möller-Gulland
Leiden University - Leiden University College and Ecologic Institute
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land grab, corruption, sustainability, food security, biofuels, FDI

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All-in-Auctions for Water

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All-in-Auctions for Water

PERC Research Paper No. 12/15
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 14 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 02 May 2014
David Zetland
Leiden University - Leiden University College
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multi-unit auction, scarcity, water allocation, auction design, endowment effect

All-in-Auctions for Water

Journal of Environmental Management, Vol. 115, 2013
Posted: 29 Jan 2013
David Zetland
Leiden University - Leiden University College

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multi-unit auction, scarcity, water allocation, auction design, endowment effect

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Markets for Afghan Opium and Us Heroin: Modeling the Connections

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 18 Feb 2005 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2013
David Zetland
Leiden University - Leiden University College
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opium, heroin, drug wars, supply-side control, international narcotics trafficking, alternative development

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An Auction Market for Journal Articles

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An Auction Market for Journal Articles

CentER Discussion Paper No. 2007-79, TILEC Discussion Paper No. 2007-027
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 18 Feb 2005 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2010
Jens Prufer and David Zetland
Tilburg University - CentER and Leiden University - Leiden University College
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Academic Journals, Academic Productivity, Market Design

An Auction Market for Journal Articles

Public Choice, Vol. 145, Nos. 3-4, pp. 379-403
Posted: 13 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2010
Jens Prufer and David Zetland
Tilburg University - CentER and Leiden University - Leiden University College

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Academic Journals, Academic Productivity, Market Design

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Water Civilization: The Evolution of the Dutch Drinking Water Sector

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 01 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 09 Feb 2018
David Zetland and Bene Colenbrander
Leiden University - Leiden University College and Leiden University - Leiden University College
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Drinking water, institutions, common-pool goods, public health

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Water Metering in England and Wales

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Water Metering in England and Wales

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 11 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2016
David Zetland
Leiden University - Leiden University College
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Water meters, water conservation, equity, carbon

The Struggle for Residential Water Metering in England and Wales

Water Alternatives 9(1):120-138, 2016
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 08 Feb 2016
David Zetland
Leiden University - Leiden University College
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Water meters, collective goods, privatisation, regulation, England, Wales

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Teaching Economic Principles: Algebra, Graph or Both?

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Teaching Economic Principles: Algebra, Graph or Both?

American Economist, Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 123-131
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 10 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 28 May 2010
David Zetland, Carlo Russo and Navin Yavapolkul
Leiden University - Leiden University College, University of California, Davis - Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of California, Davis - College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
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teaching methodology, inverse demand, graphs, algebra

Is Inverse Demand Perverse?

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 15 Feb 2013
Carlo Russo, Navin Yavapolkul and David Zetland
University of California, Davis - Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of California, Davis - College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and Leiden University - Leiden University College
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Economics teaching, economic education

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Rational Waste: The Political-Economy of Desalination

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 22 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 30 May 2019
David Zetland
Leiden University - Leiden University College
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drinking water, irrigation, energy, sustainability, political-economy, desalination

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When Worlds Collide: Business Meets Bureaucracy in the Water Sector

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 28 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2012
David Zetland
Leiden University - Leiden University College
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incentives, institutions, water, opportunity cost, externalities

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Save the Poor, Shoot Some Bankers

Public Choice, Vol. 145, Nos. 3-4, pp. 331-337
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 22 Feb 2007 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2010
David Zetland
Leiden University - Leiden University College
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aid, principal-agent, asymmetric information, intrinsic motivation, public choice

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The role of prices in managing water scarcity

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 13 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2020
David Zetland
Leiden University - Leiden University College
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water scarcity, price incentives, elasticity, climate change

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Sex Matters: The Impact of Information on Cooperation

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 29 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2016
David Zetland and Marina Della Giusta
Leiden University - Leiden University College and University of Reading - Department of Economics
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Information, collective goods, gender

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Teaching Common-Pool Resource Management

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 29 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 05 Jul 2017
David Zetland
Leiden University - Leiden University College
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common-pool resources, experiential learning

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Exploring Group Cooperation in the Provision of Public Goods

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 29 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2017
David Zetland
Leiden University - Leiden University College
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Voluntary contribution mechanism, in-group/out-group comparisons, public goods, free-riders

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Performance Insurance: Rewarding Managers for Better Service

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Performance Insurance: Rewarding Managers for Better Service

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 19 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2013
David Zetland
Leiden University - Leiden University College
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water utility, monopoly, benchmark competition, insurance, regulation

Performance Insurance: Rewarding Managers for Better Service

Water Utility Management International 7(4):13-16, 2012
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 29 Jan 2013
David Zetland
Leiden University - Leiden University College
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insurance, regulation, water utilities, risk, public choice

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Living in a Post-Water World

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 13 Aug 2019
David Zetland
Leiden University - Leiden University College
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climate change, food security, virtual water, agricultural trade

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Do Water Managers Cooperate in Public Goods Games?

HANDBOOK ON EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT, John List and Michael Price, eds., Edward Elgar, 2011
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 26 Mar 2011
David Zetland
Leiden University - Leiden University College
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Managers, water, intrinsic motivation, public goods, experiments, field experiments

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Pointing Fingers: Monitoring, Evolution and Efficiency Among 15 Middlemen

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 16 Apr 2007
David Zetland
Leiden University - Leiden University College
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International development aid, monitoring, moral hazard

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Conflict Inside a Public Organization: Origins, Costs, Persistence and Solutions

Economics of Peace and Security Journal, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 12-27
Posted: 23 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2011
David Zetland
Leiden University - Leiden University College

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Institutions, Shortage, Monopoly, Cooperative, Governance, Auctions

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2047: Short Stories from Our Common Future (Published Dec 2017)
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 11 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2017
David Zetland
Leiden University - Leiden University College
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sustainability, fiction, groundwater, irrigation