We model the endogenous evolution of the de facto property rights regime and explore the impact of trade on de facto property rights regimes and on welfare. The model takes into account the dynamics of the stocks of natural resources, and the effect of trade on resource utilization. We show that...

We model international rivalry between a domestic firm that is going through a leaming-by-doing phase, and a mature foreign rival. We show that the optimal production subsidy for the domestic firm depends on the degree of strategic sophistication of the foreign firm.Optimal production subsidy...

Several authors have shown that the opening of trade may be harmful if natural resources are exploited under the open-access regime. These authors assume that property rights regimes are exogenously given, and are the same before and after the opening of trade. In this paper, we model the...

The purpose of this paper is to model the influence of Kantian moral scruples in a dynamic environment. Our objectives are two-fold. Firstly, we investigate how a Nash equilibrium among agents who have moral scruples may ensure that the exploitation of a common property renewable resource is...

This paper defines the concept of feedback Kant-Nash equilibrium for a discrete-time model of resource exploitation by infinitely-lived Kantian and Nashian players, where we define Kantian agents as those who act in accordance with the categorical imperative. We revisit a well-known dynamic...