Rapacious Resource Depletion, Excessive Investment and Insecure Property Rights: A Puzzle

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 105-128

  van der Ploeg, Frederick ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adjusted net saving; Capital; Differential game; Exhaustible resources; Fractionalization; Genuine saving; Hartwick rule; Hotelling rule; Insecure property rights; Interconnected pools; Seepage; Sustainable consumption

Indexed keywords

GAME THEORY; SEEPAGE;

ADJUSTED NET SAVINGS; CAPITAL; DIFFERENTIAL GAMES; EXHAUSTIBLE RESOURCES; FRACTIONALIZATION; GENUINE SAVINGS; HARTWICK RULE; HOTELLING; INTERCONNECTED POOLS; PROPERTY RIGHT; SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION;

NATURAL RESOURCES;

INVESTMENT LOCATION; NATIONAL SECURITY; NONRENEWABLE RESOURCE; PROPERTY RIGHTS; RESOURCE DEPLETION; SAVINGS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WORLD BANK;

EID: 78650172910     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-010-9400-7     Document Type: Article

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