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