Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/68205 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 4019
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
In this paper we investigate optimal harvesting of a renewable natural resource. While in the standard approach the resource is located at a single point in space we allow for the resource to be distributed over the plane. Consequently, an agent who exploits the resource has to travel from one location to another. For a fixed planning horizon we investigate the speed and the time path of harvesting chosen by the agent. We show that the agent adjusts the speed of movement so that he accomplishes to visit each location only once, even in the absence of travelling cost. Since he does not come back to any location for a second harvest, it is optimal for him to fully deplete the resource upon arrival. A society interested in conserving some of the resource thus has to take measures suitable to limit the exploitative behaviour of the agent.
Subjects: 
optimal harvesting
spatial renewable resource
continuous time
market failure
JEL: 
Q20
Q28
D21
C61
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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