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commons. Using a dynamic model of competitive resource extraction, we show that improving property right security …
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The problem of the commons is more important to our lives and thus more central to economics than a century ago when … the commons. Within the realm of natural resources, there are special challenges associated with renewable resources …. Critical commons problems are also associated with environmental quality. A key contribution of economics has been the …
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overall catch quota to a voluntary cooperative, with the remainder exploited as a commons by those choosing to fish …
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This paper presents a simple but quite general framework for analyzing the impact of informational externalities. By … identifying the traditional pecuniary effect of these externalities which nets out,the paper greatly simplifies the problem of …
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-disorder and income-creation externalities. Two bordering casinos compete with each other for the external source of demand of …
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commit to contracts, virus externalities are local, and competitive equilibria are efficient. The Second Welfare Theorem also … their infection status. If society cannot control virus exposure, then virus externalities are global and competitive … externalities and result in inefficiently high economic activity. If agents cannot commit, competitive equilibria are inefficient …
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A unilateral carbon tax trades off the distortionary costs of taxation and the future gains from slowing down global warming. Because the cost is local and immediate, whereas the benefit is global and delayed, this tradeoff tends to be unfavorable to unilateral carbon taxes. We show that this...
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We consider an environment in which there is substantial uncertainty about the potential negative external effects of AI algorithms. We find that subjecting algorithm implementation to regulatory approval or mandating testing is insufficient to implement the social optimum. When testing costs...
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The literature on the optimal harvest of fisheries has concentrated on a single fishing area with biomass uncertainty and to a lesser degree also with price uncertainty. We develop and implement a stochastic optimal control approach to determine the harvest that maximizes the value of a fishery...
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Orcinus Orca is the world's largest predator, and simultaneously a significant tourist asset and cultural icon for much of the Pacific Northwest. In the past two decades, the Southern Resident Killer whales (SRKW) have declined by more than 25 percent, and this population appears on a...
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