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On the Impact of Trade in a Common Property Renewable Resource Oligopoly

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  • Hassan Benchekroun

    (McGill University, CIREQ)

  • Amrita Ray Chaudhuri

    (The University of Winnipeg, CentER & TILEC)

  • Dina Tasneem

    (The American University of Sharjah)

Abstract

We consider a common-pool renewable resource differential game. We show that within this dynamic oligopolistic framework, free trade may lead to a lower discounted sum of consumer surplus and of social welfare than autarky. Trade restrictions may be supported based on both resource conservation and efficiency motives. A priori, this finding is not straightforward; a move from Autarky to Free Trade causes industry output to first increase and then decrease over time. While producers are shown to be always worse off under free trade than under autarky, consumers are better off in the short run and worse off in the long run. We determine the conditions under which the long-run effects outweigh the short-run effects of trade, leading to a decrease in the discounted sum of not only consumer surplus, but also social welfare.

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  • Hassan Benchekroun & Amrita Ray Chaudhuri & Dina Tasneem, 2019. "On the Impact of Trade in a Common Property Renewable Resource Oligopoly," Cahiers de recherche 07-2019, Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative, CIREQ.
    • Handle: RePEc:mtl:montec:07-2019
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    JEL classification:

    • C73 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Stochastic and Dynamic Games; Evolutionary Games
    • Q20 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - General
    • F10 - International Economics - - Trade - - - General
    • D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection

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