Entrepreneurship Faculty : Gary Libecap

	Anheuser-Busch Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies
	Ph.D. Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 1976 M.A. Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 1969 B.A. Economics, University of Montana, 1968
	Phone:	520.621.4821
	Fax:	520.626.5269
	Email:	glibecap@eller.arizona.edu
	Office:	McClelland Hall, Room 202

Curriculum Vitae

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Areas of Expertise/Research

• Development of water markets and transfers
• Farmsize, land use, and environmental effects

Working Papers

Libecap, Gary D. "Second Degree Path Dependence: Information Costs, Political Objectives, and Inappropriate Small-Farm Settlement of the North American Great Plains," December 8, 2004.

Libecap, Gary D. "Chinatown: Transaction Costs in Water Rights Exchanges—The Owens Valley Transfer to Los Angeles," December 7, 2004.

Law, Marc T. and Libecap, Gary D. "The Determinants of Progressive Era Reform: The Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906," November 17, 2004.

Bial, Joseph J., Houser, Daniel, and Libecap, Gary D. "Public Choice Issues in International Collective Action: Global Warming Regulation," July 3, 2001.

Summary

The Anheuser-Busch Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies and professor of economics and law, Gary D. Libecap is the former director of the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship. Libecap came to The University of Arizona in 1984 to establish the Center and develop its entrepreneurship program. Under his leadership, the program has gained prominence and acclaim, receiving the model program award from the United States Association for Small Businesses and Entrepreneurship, as well as being ranked in the top ten programs in the country.

Libecap, who earned master's and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, is an international teacher and scholar. In addition to widely recognized research on government regulation and property rights, he has written and contributed to many books, articles, and other studies. Libecap is past Editor of the Journal of Economic History and the JAI Press Series Advances in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Growth.

His many other assignments have included:

• President of the Western Economics Association, the Economic History Association, and the International Society for New Institutional Economics.
• Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economics Research
• National Fellow, Hoover Institute
• National Science Foundation panelist
• Visiting Scholar, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
• Visiting scholar at the Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free University of Berlin
• Fulbright lecturer in Montevideo, Uruguay
• Olin Fellow at Cornell University, the California Institute of Technology, and the University of Southern California
• Research Fellow at the International Center for Economic Research in Turin, Italy