Consumer surplus-enhancing cooperation in a natural resource oligopolyLuca Colombo and Paola Labrecciosa Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018, vol. 92, issue C, 185-193 Abstract: In this study, we use a differential game to illustrate that cooperation among oligopolists selling a common-pool renewable resource may lead not only to higher industrial output, consumer surplus, and resource stock in the stationary equilibrium, but also a greater discounted sum of consumer surplus. A priori, this finding is not straightforward; an increase in the coefficient of cooperation causes industry output to first decrease and then increase over time, thus making consumers worse off in the short run and better off in the long run. This study establishes the conditions under which the long-run effects outweigh the short-run effects of cooperation, leading to an increase in the discounted sum of consumer surplus. Our analysis suggests that, in some cases, “conservation cartels” should be promoted on the basis of not only resource conservation but also efficiency. Keywords: Renewable resources; Differential games; Coefficient of cooperation; Market efficiency; Productive asset oligopoly (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jeeman:v:92:y:2018:i:c:p:185-193 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2018.08.015 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Environmental Economics and Management is currently edited by M.A. Cole, A. Lange, D.J. Phaneuf, D. Popp, M.J. Roberts, M.D. Smith, C. Timmins, Q. Weninger and A.J. Yates More articles in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management from Elsevier |
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