In a simple model of resource depletion (isoelastic demand and constant unit extraction cost), we fully characterize the set of linear effiency-inducing tax/subsidy schemes. We show that this set is infinite and all the larger as the cost of extraction is low. Depending on the magnitude of the...

Abstract: We summarize and review the literature on two types of economic experiments. First we discuss the use of experimental laboratories to testbed market solutions to issues in environmental policy. We concentrate on experiments with one and two-sided markets, and applications in the domain...

Abstract We analyze a dynamic game between a buyer and a seller of an exhaustible resource. The seller chooses resource supply; the buyer can pay a fixed cost to invent a perfect substitute for the resource at any time. In closed-loop equilibrium, the buyer adopts the substitute when the...

With regard to global or regional environmental problems, do countries that take unilateral actions inspire other countries to curtail emissions?In this paper this possibility is investigated by the use of a novel design of a laboratory public bad experiment with a leader.Twelve groups of five...

This paper introduces a method for computing the maximum volume inscribed ellipsoid and k-ball of a projected polytope. It is known that deriving an explicit description of a projected polytope is NP-hard. By using adjustable robust optimization techniques, we construct a computationally...

In this paper we propose a methodology for constructing decision rules for in-<br/>teger and continuous decision variables in multiperiod robust linear optimization<br/>problems. This type of problems finds application in, for example, inventory management, lot sizing, and manpower management. We show...

AMS classifications: 90D12, 90C05, 90C34.

Abstract: We propose a new way to derive tractable robust counterparts of a linear conic optimization problem by using the theory of Beck and Ben-Tal [2] on the duality between the robust (“pessimistic”) primal problem and its “optimistic” dual. First, we obtain a new convex...