nep-env New Economics Papers
on Environmental Economics
Issue of 2006‒06‒10
one paper chosen by
Francisco S.Ramos
Federal University of Pernambuco

  1. The Curse of Windfall Gains in a Non Renewable Resource Oligopoly By Hassan Benchekroun; Ngo Van Long

  1. By: Hassan Benchekroun; Ngo Van Long
    Abstract: We investigate the effect of stock discovery on the profits of non-identical oligopolists. We show that a uniform addition to all stocks could harm firms that are originally larger than average. One conclusion that could be drawn from the results is that a new technology that leads to more efficient exploitation of the available resource is not necessarily welcomed by all firms. <P>On étudie les effets de la découverte des stocks de ressources sur les profits des firmes asymétriques. On montre que l’augmentation uniforme des stocks pour toutes les firmes pourrait désavantager celles qui sont initialement les plus grandes. On déduit que la découverte d’une nouvelle technologie qui permet une augmentation d’efficacité d’extraction pour toutes les firmes pourrait réduire le profit de certaines firmes.
    Keywords: non-renewable resource, oligopoly, stock discovery, découverte des stocks, oligopole, ressources naturelles
    Date: 2006–05–01
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cir:cirwor:2006s-10&r=env

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