TY - JOUR
T1 - Strategic exploitation of a common-property resource under uncertainty
AU - Antoniadou, Elena
AU - Koulovatianos, Christos
AU - Mirman, Leonard J.
PY - 2013/1
Y1 - 2013/1
N2 - We construct a game of noncooperative common-resource exploitation which delivers analytical solutions for its symmetric Markov-perfect Nash equilibrium. We examine how introducing uncertainty to the natural law of resource reproduction affects strategic exploitation. We show that the commons problem is always present in our example and we identify cases in which increases in risk amplify or mitigate the commons problem. For a specific class of games which imply Markov-perfect strategies that are linear in the resource stock (our example belongs to this class), we provide general results on how payoff-function features affect the responsiveness of exploitation strategies to changes in riskiness. These broader characterizations of games which imply linear strategies (appearing in an Online Appendix) can be useful in future work, given the technical difficulties that may arise from the possible nonlinearity of Markov-perfect strategies in more general settings.
AB - We construct a game of noncooperative common-resource exploitation which delivers analytical solutions for its symmetric Markov-perfect Nash equilibrium. We examine how introducing uncertainty to the natural law of resource reproduction affects strategic exploitation. We show that the commons problem is always present in our example and we identify cases in which increases in risk amplify or mitigate the commons problem. For a specific class of games which imply Markov-perfect strategies that are linear in the resource stock (our example belongs to this class), we provide general results on how payoff-function features affect the responsiveness of exploitation strategies to changes in riskiness. These broader characterizations of games which imply linear strategies (appearing in an Online Appendix) can be useful in future work, given the technical difficulties that may arise from the possible nonlinearity of Markov-perfect strategies in more general settings.
KW - Renewable resource exploitation
KW - Stochastic non-cooperative dynamic games
KW - The commons
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84872262523&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jeem.2012.05.005
DO - 10.1016/j.jeem.2012.05.005
M3 - Article
SN - 0095-0696
VL - 65
SP - 28
EP - 39
JO - Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
JF - Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
IS - 1
ER -