Research Seminar in Economics of Natural Resources and Sustainability
ECO4192
Winter 2015
Course Outline


Professor: Louis Hotte
Office hours: Monday 2:30-4:30pm FSS 9048

Themes:

  1. Scarcity rent - Locational rent - Dynamic rent
  2. A non-renewable resource
  3. Institutions - Property rights - Exclusion - Enforcement - Conflict
  4. Property rights - Right to sell
  5. The open access fishery - The Gordon model
  6. Property rights through the lens of game theory - The two-herder model of free access
  7. A renewable resource - The fishery 
  8. Open access, renewable resources, and the backward bending supply curve