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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2011
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
Papers on Economics and Evolution No. 1109
Verlag: 
Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
Zusammenfassung: 
Agents interacting on a body of water choose between technologies to catch fish. One is harmless to the resource, as it allows full recovery; the other yields high immediate catches, but low(er) future catches. Strategic interaction in one objective resource game may induce subjective games in the class of social dilemmas. Which unique subjective game is actually played depends crucially on how the agents discount their future payoffs. We examine equilibrium behavior and its consequences on sustainability of the common-pool resource system under exponential and hyperbolic discounting. A suffcient degree of patience on behalf of the agents may lead to equilibrium behavior averting exhaustion of the resource, though full restraint (both agents choosing the ecologically or environmentally sound technology) is not necessarily achieved. Furthermore, if the degree of patience between agents is suffciently dissimilar, the more patient is exploited by the less patient one in equilibrium. We demonstrate the generalizability of our approach developed throughout the paper. We provide recommendations to reduce the enormous complexity surrounding the general cases.
Schlagwörter: 
stochastic renewable resource games
hyperbolic and exponential discounting
social dilemmas
sustainability
JEL: 
C72
C73
Q22
Q57
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