Common pool resource management and risk perceptions

Can Askan Mavi () and Nicolas Querou
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Can Askan Mavi: Department of Economics and Management, Université du Luxembourg

DEM Discussion Paper Series from Department of Economics at the University of Luxembourg

Abstract: Motivated by recent discussions about the issue of risk perceptions for climate change related events, (To consult this DP, please send an e-mail to dem@uni.lu) we introduce a non-cooperative game setting where agents manage a common pool resource under a potential risk, and agents exhibit different risk perception biases. Focusing on the effect of the polarization level and other population features, we show that the type of bias (overestimation versus underestimation biases) and the resource quality level before and after the occurrence of the shift have first-order importance on the qualitative nature of behavioral adjustments and on the pattern of resource conservation. When there are non-uniform biases within the population, the intra-group structure of the population qualitatively affects the degree of resource conservation. Moreover, unbiased agents may react in nonmonotone ways to changes in the polarization level when faced with agents exhibiting different types of bias. The size of the unbiased agents’ sub-population does not qualitatively affect how an increase in the polarization level impacts individual behavioral adjustments, even though it affects the magnitude of this change. Finally, it is shown how perception biases affect the comparison between centralized and decentralized management.

Keywords: Conservation; Perception bias; Environmental risk; Renewable resources; Dynamic games. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 D91 Q20 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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Working Paper: Common pool resource management and risk perceptions (2023)
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