Public Goods and Common Resource

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THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF GOODS Characteristics of Goods Useful to group

THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF GOODS

Characteristics of Goods
Useful to group various types

of goods according to two characteristics
1. Excludability
Is the good excludable?
Can people be prevented from using the good?
The property of a good whereby a person can be prevented from using it
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THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF GOODS Characteristics of Goods 2. Rivalry Is

THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF GOODS

Characteristics of Goods
2. Rivalry
Is the good rival?
Does

one person’s use of the good diminish another person’s ability to use it?
The property of a good whereby a person can be prevented from using it.
Also called non-depletable
Consumption by one individual does not affect supply available for other individuals
Non-rivalry implies that marginal social cost of supply the good to an additional individual is zero
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THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF GOODS Characteristics of Goods Goods differ by

THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF GOODS

Characteristics of Goods
Goods differ by the amount

of these two characteristics and can be grouped accordingly into four categories
1. Private goods
2. Public goods
3. Common goods
4. Collective goods
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THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF GOODS Four Types of Goods Rival? Excludable?

THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF GOODS

Four Types of Goods

Rival?

Excludable?

High

Low

High

Low

Private Goods

Public Goods

Common Goods

Collective

Good
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THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF GOODS Pure and Impure Goods Distinguish goods

THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF GOODS

Pure and Impure Goods
Distinguish goods by degree

of excludability and rivalry
Goods display varying degrees
Leads to distinction of pure and impure
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PRIVATE GOODS Private goods are goods that are both excludable and

PRIVATE GOODS

Private goods are goods that are both excludable and rival
An

ice-cream cone is excludable because it is possible to prevent someone from eating it and it is rival because if one person eats it another person cannot eat the same cone
Most goods in economy are private
Analysis of supply and demand and efficiency of markets implicitly assumed that goods were both excludable and rival – private goods
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PUBLIC GOODS Public goods are goods that are neither excludable nor

PUBLIC GOODS

Public goods are goods that are neither excludable nor rival
People

cannot be prevented (nonexcludable) from using a public good and one person’s use of a public good does not reduce another person’s ability to use it (nonrivalrous)
Allows for simultaneous consumption
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PUBLIC GOODS Pure public goods Local public goods In some circumstances,

PUBLIC GOODS

Pure public goods
Local public goods
In some circumstances, a public good

has a spatial dimension
Provides benefits only to those living in a particular geographic region
Examples: trafic lights, parks, ports, marine reserves
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PUBLIC GOODS Club goods Sometimes possible to divide population into two

PUBLIC GOODS

Club goods
Sometimes possible to divide population into two or more

consumption groups or clubs
Each club consumes its own public good
Examples:
Swimming pools, golf courses,movie houses
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PUBLIC GOODS Examples of Public Goods Ecosystem Provide public services given

PUBLIC GOODS

Examples of Public Goods
Ecosystem
Provide public services given their ability to

underpin and buffer the market economy against external shocks of production and consumption
Wetlands
Act as local public good by buffering economy from natural and man-made shocks by providing water purification and habitat services
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PUBLIC GOODS Examples of Public Goods Oceans Act as local public

PUBLIC GOODS

Examples of Public Goods
Oceans
Act as local public good by providing

public services to local economy, given its capacity to provide recreational services, habitat services, accepting terrestrial water flows, accepting wastes, etc.
Also provide public goods to global economy, given non-rival benefits of biodiversity, ecosystem linkages, carbon sequestration, provision of oxygen
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COMMON GOODS Common goods are goods that are rival but not

COMMON GOODS

Common goods are goods that are rival but not excludable
Fish

in the ocean are rivalrous, because when person catches the fish, there are fewer fish for the next person to catch.
Fish in the ocean are not excludable, because it is difficult to stop fishers from taking fish out of the ocean
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COLLECTIVE GOODS Collective goods are goods that are nonrival but excludable

COLLECTIVE GOODS

Collective goods are goods that are nonrival but excludable
Sometimes provided

by government, sometimes by private goods
Pay-per-view cable television
Often are natural monopolies
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PUBLIC AND COMMON GOODS AND EXTERNALITIES Public goods and common goods

PUBLIC AND COMMON GOODS AND EXTERNALITIES

Public goods and common goods are

both not excludable, and therefore available to everyone free of charge
Both are closely related to externalities
For both, externalities arise because something of value has no price attached to it
If one person provides public good, other people better off, and yet they could not be charged for this benefit
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PUBLIC AND COMMON GOODS AND EXTERNALITIES If one person uses a

PUBLIC AND COMMON GOODS AND EXTERNALITIES

If one person uses a common

good, such as fish in the ocean, other people are worse off, and yet they are not compensated for this loss
Because of these external effects, private decisions about consumption and production can lead to inefficient allocation of resources and public intervention can potentially raise economic welfare
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PUBLIC AND COMMON GOODS AND EXTERNALITIES More advanced discussion Private provision

PUBLIC AND COMMON GOODS AND EXTERNALITIES

More advanced discussion
Private provision of public

goods creates Pareto inefficiency
Leads to insufficient level of a desirable public good
Market failure and externality
Due to non-rivalry, marginal social cost of supplying good to an additional individual is zero
Pareto efficiency occurs when marginal social benefit equals marginal social cost, implying price for usage should be zero
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PUBLIC AND COMMON GOODS AND EXTERNALITIES More advanced discussion But private

PUBLIC AND COMMON GOODS AND EXTERNALITIES

More advanced discussion
But private firm cannot

profit by providing pure public good for free
Due to non-rival and non-excludable consumption
Each firm ignores impact of its private contribution to public on other firms and vice versa
No firm accounts for the extra benefit passed on to other firms as each firm increases its contribution to the supply of the public good
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PUBLIC AND COMMON GOODS AND EXTERNALITIES More advanced discussion Externality Cause

PUBLIC AND COMMON GOODS AND EXTERNALITIES

More advanced discussion
Externality
Cause of this inefficiency

due to externality
Each consumer’s purchase of the public good provides direct benefit not only to the purchasing consumer, but also to every other consumer
Hence, private provision of public good creates situation with externality
Free-rider situation created
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PUBLIC GOODS AND THE FREE-RIDER PROBLEM A free-rider is a person

PUBLIC GOODS AND THE FREE-RIDER PROBLEM

A free-rider is a person who

receives the benefit of a good but avoids paying for it
Most often associated with public goods
Arises due to non-excludability
Implies that market will provide less of public good than is socially optimal
Misallocates resources away from environmental assets to private goods where conditions of rivalry and exclusive use hold
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PUBLIC BADS An undesirable public good Reduces consumer utility or firm

PUBLIC BADS

An undesirable public good
Reduces consumer utility or firm profits
Examples: pollution,

noise
Loss suffered by one person from pollution of air, for example, does not reduce loss suffered by another
Public bads are oversupplied
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MIXED GOODS Enviornmental Assets as Mixed Goods Environmental assets which provide

MIXED GOODS

Enviornmental Assets as Mixed Goods
Environmental assets which provide both private

and public good services are mixed goods
Biodiversity is an example
Species provide public good services in the generation of ecological services that are themselves of value to human society
Species provide private good services of direct economic value in both human consumption and production
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MIXED GOODS Characteristics of Mixed Goods Main characteristic of a mixed

MIXED GOODS

Characteristics of Mixed Goods
Main characteristic of a mixed good is

that consumption of mixed good as private good is is unaffected by consumption of same good as public good
Because of non-rivalrous characteristic when public good
Whereas consumption of mixed good as public good is affected by consumption of same mixed good as a private good
Because of rivalrous nature of private goods
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MIXED GOODS AND MARKET FAILURE Characteristics of Mixed Goods Often overexploitation

MIXED GOODS AND MARKET FAILURE

Characteristics of Mixed Goods
Often overexploitation of the

mixed good and underinvestment and under-supply in public good aspect of mixed good
Market only values private good uses
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MIXED GOODS Enviornmental Assets as Mixed Goods Many ecological services are

MIXED GOODS

Enviornmental Assets as Mixed Goods
Many ecological services are neither purely

rival nor purely exclusive in consumption, and hence are mixed goods
Consumption of such services by one user or group does not diminish their availability to others
Consumption does not preclude consumption by others
In nature of local public good
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MIXED GOODS Enviornmental Assets as Mixed Goods As with many public

MIXED GOODS

Enviornmental Assets as Mixed Goods
As with many public goods, underinvestment

in environmental services or biodiversity in favor of specific populations whose benefits can be captured by individuals or groups
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MIXED GOODS AND MARKET FAILURE Biodiversity market failure and external effects

MIXED GOODS AND MARKET FAILURE

Biodiversity market failure and external effects due

to:
1. Non-correspondence between property rights and flows of benefits within economy-environmental system
Incomplete specification and allocation of rights, so that some effects of economic activities are not included in market activities
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MIXED GOODS AND MARKET FAILURE Biodiversity market failure and external effects

MIXED GOODS AND MARKET FAILURE

Biodiversity market failure and external effects due

to:
2. Distortions of market prices due to government policy or strategic market behavior
When market prices do not reflect social opportunity cost, socially sub-optimal decisions
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MIXED GOODS AND MARKET FAILURE Biodiversity market failure and external effects

MIXED GOODS AND MARKET FAILURE

Biodiversity market failure and external effects due

to:
3. Distribution of income and assets that deepens wedge between individual private and social valuation of many people
Information used in private decisions and discount rates by private individuals is sensitive to market income
Poor able to command less income than rich and thereby express their willingness to pay
Also, strong relationship between income and discount rate for future
Because current consumption is crucial, poor tend to discount future costs of resource at very high rate
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MIXED GOOD AND MARKET FAILURE Negative Externalities or External Costs Price

MIXED GOOD AND MARKET FAILURE

Negative Externalities or External Costs
Price

Demand

Supply
(private
marginal

cost)

Social cost =
Private +
external cost

QMARKET

QOPTIMUM

Quantity

Market Equilibrium

Social
Optimum

POPTIMUM

PMARKET

External
Cost

Social cost of good
exceeds private cost
Socially optimum
quantity exceeds
privately optimum
quantity
Socially optimum price
exceeds privately
optimum price

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MIXED GOOD AND MARKET FAILURE WITHOUT WELFARE CONSEQUENCES Externality is Pareto

MIXED GOOD AND MARKET FAILURE WITHOUT WELFARE CONSEQUENCES

Externality is Pareto irrelevant

in this case

Demand

Quantity

Price

S

S

S’

Social value of external
cost

Marginal social and privae
costs diverge over same
range of exploitation.
Social marginal cost curve is
S’FS
Market equil. Is socially
optimal even though private
exploitation imposes external
costs.

F

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OPTIMAL EXPLOITATION OF MIXED GOODS Marginal benefit of private good Marginal

OPTIMAL EXPLOITATION OF MIXED GOODS

Marginal benefit
of private good

Marginal benefit of


public good

Increasing private exploitation

Q0

Q1

Q0: Socially optimal exploitation level
Q1: Optimal private exploitation level

Increasing public exploitation