Arbeitspapier

A Market Mechanism for Sustainable and Efficient Resource Use under Uncertainty

Sustainability and efficiency are potentially conflicting social objectives in natural resource management. We propose a market mechanism to allocate use rights over a stochastic resource to private managers. The mechanism endogenously determines the maximal tenure length guaranteeing that the sustainability goal is obeyed for sure over the entire period. In addition, the mechanism achieves efficiency, i.e. it maximizes the expected present value of resource rents that accrue to society. Potential applications include improved fishing agreements between developing countries and distant-water fishing fleets.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 6524

Classification
Wirtschaft
Renewable Resources and Conservation: General
Auctions
Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
Subject
auctioning-refunding-mechanism
efficient resource allocation
renewable resources
stochastic resource dynamics
sustainability

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Quaas, Martin F.
Winkler, Ralph
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(where)
Munich
(when)
2017

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  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Quaas, Martin F.
  • Winkler, Ralph
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Time of origin

  • 2017

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