We model international trade in renewable resources between a single buyer and competitive sellersas a Stackelberg differential game. The buyer uses unit and ad valorem tariffs to indirectly encourageconservation of the renewable resource under study. First, we show that the efficacy of these...

The n total consumers in the market for a particular good are made up of b brown and g green consumers so that b+g=n. The b brown (g green) consumers are not (are) environmentally conscious and hence they prefer to buy a new (remanufactured) good denoted by N and R respectively. By strategically...

We provide a theoretical justification for bi-sourcing, which refers to thesituation where a final goods producer buys an input from an outside supplier and alsoproduces it in-house. Bi-sourcing occurs if the marginal cost of producing the input inhouseis higher than the marginal cost of outside...