• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: Use Rights for Common Pool Resources and Economic Development
  • Contributor: Noack, Frederik [Author]; Riekhof, Marie-Catherine [Author]; Quaas, Martin [Author]
  • Published: Zurich: ETH Zurich, CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research, 2015
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-010489836
  • Keywords: O15 ; Q20 ; natural resources and development ; O13 ; use rights and development ; Q28 ; wealth distribution and occupational choice ; O44
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  • Description: This paper explores the long–run development of an economy with a traditional sector based on common–pool resource-use, a modern, resource–independent sector with fixed entry costs, and an imperfect capital market. We show theoretically that introducing resource-use regulations increases incomes in the traditional sector and that this can trigger a development process with labor reallocation to the modern sector. Allowing trade of resource-use rights, or distributing resource-use rights unequally, broadens the scope for development.
  • Access State: Open Access