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Valuing Easements: A Simple Bargaining Framework

Author: Joseph W. Trefzger and Henry J. Munneke

Start Page: 127
End Page: 138
Volume: 16
Issue Number: 2
Year: 1998
Publication: Journal of Real Estate Research

Abstract: The literature’s guidance on appraising easement values is limited, such as the sometimes unworkable advice to locate appropriate comparables. A simple economic analysis involving applications of bargaining theory (splitting a cooperative surplus) and game theory (anticipating other parties’ actions) might provide a viable alternative means of analysis in some easement situations.

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