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Existing models of open-access resources are applicable to non-storable resources, such as fish. Many open-access resources, however, are used to produce storable goods. Elephants, rhinos, and tigers are three prominent examples. Anticipated future scarcity of these resources will increase...
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Private ownership should generally be preferred to public ownership when the incentives to innovate and to contain costs must be strong. In essence, this is the case for capitalism over socialism, explaining the dynamic vitality' of free enterprise. The great economists of the 1930s and 1940s...
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We derive conditions under which cost-increasing measures - consistent with either regulatory constraints or fully expropriated taxes - can increase the profits of all agents active within a common-pool resource. This somewhat counterintuitive result is possible regardless of whether price is...
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We develop a theory of resource management where the degree to which countries escape the tragedy of the commons is … at any world price, have zero rents and suffer from the tragedy of the commons. Ostrom economies exhibit de facto open …
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Property rights are commonly touted as a solution to common pool resource problems. But in practice the security of these property rights varies substantially owing to differences in design. In fisheries, the design of individual transferable quotas (ITQs) varies widely; the consequences of...
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Social capital can facilitate community governance, but not all social capital is alike. We distinguish bonding social capital (within a village) from bridging social capital (between villages), and we compare their effects on the management of a common pool resource. We develop a theoretical...
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Common resources may be managed with inefficient policies for the sake of equity. We study how rationing the commons …
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This paper starts from two sets of facts about Continental Europe.The first is the steady increase in unemployment since the early 1970s. The second is the evolution of the capital share, an initial decline in the 1970s, followed by a much larger increase since the mid-1980s. The paper then...
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This paper presents five theoretical openness-and-growth links that can account for trade-induced investment-led growth … imperfect competition and scale economies. This sort of old-growth-theory-in-a-new-trade-model has not been thoroughly explored …, cross-country data suggests that openness influences growth only via its effect on investment, and suggests that openness …
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Three ways of averting "excess saving" have been emphasized in both theory and practice. The thrust of the Keynesian … consumption or investment. In this way, aggregate demand would be maintained by substituting public consumption for private …
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