 Renewable resource management with stochastic recharge and environmental threatsArie Leizarowitz and Yacov Tsur Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2012, vol. 36, issue 5, pages 736-753 Abstract: Exploitation diminishes the capacity of renewable resources to withstand environmental stress, increasing their vulnerability to extreme conditions that may trigger abrupt changes. The onset of such events depends on the coincidence of extreme environmental conditions and on the resource state (determining its resilience). When the former is uncertain and the latter evolves stochastically, the uncertainty regarding the event occurrence is the result of the combined effect of these two uncertain components. We study optimal management in this setting. The environmental threat renders the single-period discount factor policy-dependent and, as a result, the compound discount factor becomes history-dependent. Existence of an optimal Markovian–deterministic stationary policy is established and the optimal state process is shown to converge to a steady state distribution. Keywords: Stochastic stock dynamics; Catastrophic event; Endogenous discounting; Markov decision process; Optimal stationary policy (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:dyncon:v:36:y:2012:i:5:p:736-753 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control is edited by J. Bullard, C. Chiarella, H. Dawid, C. H. Hommes, P. Klein and C. Otrok More articles in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control from Elsevier |
Is your work missing from RePEc? Here is how to contribute.
Questions or problems? Check the EconPapers FAQ or send mail to .
EconPapers is hosted by the
Örebro University School of Business.