Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/74035 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 72.2007
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
We evaluate the effectiveness of non optimal and temporally inconsistent incentive policies for regulating the exploitation of a renewable common-pool resource. The corresponding game is an N-person discrete-time deterministic dynamic game of T periods fixed duration. Three policy instruments with parameters that remain constant for the whole horizon are evaluated: a pigouvian tax (flat tax), an ambient tax (ambient flat tax) and an instrument combining the two previous ones (mixed flat instrument). We test in the lab the predictions of the model solved for 3 distinct behavioural assumptions: (a) sub-game perfection, (b) myopic behaviour, and (c) joint payoff maximization. We find that subjects behave myopically in the unregulated situation, which agrees with previous results in the literature. Conditional on predictions, the mixed flat instrument and the flat tax are the most effective policies in approaching the optimum extraction path. However, in absolute terms the ambient flat tax and the mixed flat instrument curb most significantly the mean extraction path towards the optimum path. Paradoxically, these instruments are the less efficient ones.
Subjects: 
Policy Instruments
Renewable Common-pool Resources
Dynamic Externalities
Experimental Economics
JEL: 
D9
D62
H23
H26
H30
Q20
Q28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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