Strategic interactions and heterogeneity in a overlapping generations model with negative environmental externalities

Antoci, Angelo and Naimzada, Ahmad and Sodini, Mauro (2009): Strategic interactions and heterogeneity in a overlapping generations model with negative environmental externalities.

Abstract

We analyze an overlapping generations model where individuals’ welfare depends on the stock of a free access environmental good E and on the consumption C of a private good. We assume that the production process of the private good depletes the natural resource but that specific investments alleviate these damages. In such context, we show that strategic behaviour and heterogeneity in preferences may be a source of complex dynamics.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Heterogeneous agents; environmental externalities; overlapping generations models.
• Subjects: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C6 - Mathematical Methods ; Programming Models ; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling > C61 - Optimization Techniques ; Programming Models ; Dynamic Analysis; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q2 - Renewable Resources and Conservation > Q20 - General

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