TIDBALL , Mabel

The nature of fishing activities is such that marine habitats can be deteriorated when employing destructive fishing gear. This makes even more complex the determination of sustainable fishing policies and has led some authors to propose dynamic models which take into account this habitat degradation. In this work, we analyze in detail one of...

Consumption satisfaction depends on other factors apart from the inherent characteristic of commodities. Among them, positional concerns are central in behavioural economics. Individuals enjoy returns from the ranking occupied by the consumed item. In public good, agents obtain satisfaction from their relative contribution. We analyse how...

We consider a discrete time, infinite horizon dynamic game of groundwater extraction.A Water Agency charges an extraction cost to water users, and controls the marginal extraction cost so that it depends, not only on the level of groundwater, but also ontotal water extraction (through a parameter n that represents the degree of strategic...

Consumption satisfaction depends on other factors apart from the inherent characteristic ofcommodities. Among them, positional concerns are central in behavioral economics. Individualsenjoy returns from the ranking occupied by the consumed item. In public good, agents obtainsatisfaction from their relative contribution. We analyze how...

Social context gives rise, in some individuals, to a desire to conform with other people. Conversely, other people desire to be exclusive or different from the "common herd". We study the interaction between two different agents: the positional player, characterized by the snob effect, and the conformist player, characterized by the bandwagon...

Consumption satisfaction depends on other factors apart from the inherent characteristic ofcommodities. Leibenstein (1950) studies how the consumer's demand reacts to other factorsdifferent from the inherent characteristic of a specific commodity. In particular, he highlights thedesire of some consumers to be "in style", and the attempt by...

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We introduce the family of Conjectural Learning procedures, in which agents form conjectures about what the opponent will play, as a function of their action or some state variable. We prove general properties of these procedures, comparing them to two dynamic systems generated by nearsighted agents solving repeatedly a static game, either...

The literature featuring game–theoretical models aimed at explaining the effect of the status concerns on the voluntary provision of a public good is generally focused on snob agents, driven by a desire for exclusiveness. However, the social context literature highlights that status concerns can give rise to a desire, in some individuals to be...

We consider a discrete time, infinite horizon dynamic game of groundwater extraction. A Water Agency charges an extraction cost to water users, and controls the marginal extraction cost so that it depends linearly on total water extraction (through a parameter n) and on rainfall (through parameter m). The water users are selfish and myopic, and...

This paper characterizes and compares the optimal and the strategic behaviour of two countries or firms that minimize costs facing emission standards. Emission standards can be reached through emission reduction, banking or borrowing, and emission trading in a given and fixed planning horizon. Our model extends the existing theoretical models...