Common Pool Resources
Strategic Behavior, Inefficiencies, and Incomplete Information

A textbook for students of economics introducing the analysis of common pool resources, using basic game-theory tools.

Ana Espinola-Arredondo (Author), Felix Muñoz-Garcia (Author)

9781108831031, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 21 October 2021

200 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 1.8 cm, 0.48 kg

'This textbook offers a great introduction to Common Pool Resources. It is a helpful tool that provides not only a step by step guide on how to solve CPR problems but also the economic interpretation of the results to help understand the intuition behind the outcomes.' Eleni Stathopoulou, Nottingham Trent University

Common Pool Resources include, for instance, fishing grounds, irrigation systems, forests and the atmosphere. Now more than ever, how we responsibly share and use those goods is a vital issue. This textbook introduces students of economics, business and policy studies to the key issues in the field. It uses a game-theory approach to help readers understand the mathematical representation of how to find equilibrium behavior in CPRs, how to identify the socially optimal appropriation, and how to measure the inefficiencies that arise. Algebra and calculus steps are clearly explained, so students can more easily reproduce the analysis and apply it in their own research. Finally, the book also summarizes experimental studies that tested theoretical results in controlled environments, introducing readers to a literature that has expanded over the last decades, and provides references for further reading.

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Common pool resources in a static setting
3. Common pool resources in a dynamic setting
4. Entry deterrence in the commons
5. Repeated interaction in the commons
6. Commons under incomplete information
7. Signaling in the commons
Appendix A: game theory tools
Appendix B: solutions of selected end-of-chapter exercises.

Subject Areas: Energy & natural resources law [LNCR], Environmental economics [KCN], Economics, finance, business & management [K]