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Public and private management of renewable resources: Who gains, who loses?

Martin Quaas and Max Stoeven

Economics Working Papers from Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Department of Economics

Abstract: Renewable resources provide society with resource rent and surpluses for resource users (the processing industry, consumers) and owners of production factors (capital and labor employed in resource harvesting). We show that resource users and factor owners may favor inefficiently high harvest rates up to open-access levels. This may explain why public resource management is often very inefficient. We further show that privatizing inefficiently managed resources would cause losses for resource users and factor owners, unless (a) the stock is severely depleted and (b) the discount rate is low. We quantify our results for the Northeast Arctic Cod fishery

Keywords: resource rent; consumer surplus; worker surplus; distribution; political economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D33 D72 Q28 Q57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-env, nep-pol and nep-reg
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