Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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958879 | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | 2015 | 16 Pages |
Abstract
We imbed a classic fishery model, where the optimal policy follows a Most Rapid Approach Path to a steady state, into an overlapping generations setting. The current generation discounts future generations׳ utility flows at a rate possibly different from the pure rate of time preference used to discount their own utility flows. The resulting model has non-constant discount rates, leading to time inconsistency. The unique Markov Perfect equilibrium to this model has a striking feature: provided that the current generation has some concern for the not-yet born, the equilibrium policy does not depend on the degree of that concern.
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Authors
Ivar Ekeland, Larry Karp, Rashid Sumaila,