Endogenous Growth and Property Rights over Renewable Resources

Nujin Suphaphiphat, Pietro Peretto and Simone Valente

No 13-11, Working Papers from Duke University, Department of Economics

Abstract: We analyze the general-equilibrium effects of alternative regimes of access rights over renewable natural resources – namely, open access versus full property rights on the pace of development when economic growth is endogenously driven by both horizontal and vertical innovations. Resource exhaustion may occur under both regimes but is more likely to arise under open access. Under full property rights, positive resource rents increase expenditures and temporarily accelerate productivity growth, but also yield a higher resource price at least in the short-to-medium run. We characterize analytically the welfare effect of a regime switch induced by a failure in property rights enforcement: switching to open access is welfare reducing if the utility gain generated by the initial drop in the resource price is more than offset by the static and dynamic losses induced by reduced expenditure.

Keywords: Endogenous growth; Innovation; Renewable Resources; Sustainable Development; Property Rights (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O11 O31 Q21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40
Date: 2013
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