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Win Together or Lose Alone: Circular Economy and Hybrid Governance for Natural Resource Commons
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Natural resource commons are rivalrous non-excludable goods subject to the well-known market failure of overexploitation (also known as the tragedy of the commons) due to coordination failure, short-termism and free riding. We investigate how innovation in circular economy and (multistakeholder) network contracts can contribute to addressing the problem. More specifically, circular economy innovation can improve the efficiency of investment in regeneration of the natural resources, while network contracts can create a legal framework preventing coordination failures and increasing the effectiveness of individual willingness to act cooperatively. The model addresses and discusses governance issues arising in network contracts and the need to implement them from a multistakeholder perspective considering heterogeneity in the target quality of natural resources across stakeholders.
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The paper argues that circular economy innovation plus hybrid governance—network contracts and multistakeholder monitoring—can address natural resource commons problems such as overexploitation, short-termism, and free riding. Its model shows that cooperation can preserve the common good and sustain income/employment, while excess competition can make unilateral regeneration economically unsustainable.
Key findings
- Circular economy innovation improves the efficiency of investment in regenerating natural resources, while network contracts create a legal framework that prevents coordination failures and increases the effectiveness of individual willingness to cooperate.
- In the model, starting from perfect quali-quantity (Q = 1), non-cooperation is the dominant strategy in scenario A; this degrades Q over time, raises production and restoration costs, reduces employment and income, and can trigger exit from the market.
- Under perfect competition, a player who cooperates while the other free-rides may have no sales (pq = 0), making cooperation economically unsustainable: “you win together or lose alone.”
- Higher circular economy regeneration efficiency (E) reduces regeneration costs, improves cooperative payoffs, and can allow regeneration even without cooperation if revenues are not too low; the paper also cites COMIECO/CONAI enabling Italy to reach an 87.3% paper and cardboard recycling rate by 2020, surpassing the EU’s 85% target for 2035.
Methods
- Theoretical model of profit-maximizing entrepreneurs who use labor and the “quali-quantity” (Q) of a natural resource common as production inputs; Q is modeled as a Verhulst logistic function, with waste-pollution reducing Q unless regeneration expenses are incurred.
- Game-theoretic payoff matrix with two identical entrepreneurs choosing cooperative regeneration (cR = R*/2) or free riding (cR = 0), analyzed under three cost-parametric scenarios (A, B, C) and their competitive versions.
- Long-term dynamics are illustrated in Figs. 1–2 under restrictive assumptions, including E ≪ 1, R0 = 0, one-shot noncooperative games, indivisible production/labor, and constant prices, waste-pollution, and efficiency; no empirical dataset or estimation is used.
Limitations
- The paper states that its model is a simplified version of reality with several restrictive assumptions; time dynamics, free riding management, monopolistic drift, circular economy management strategies, transaction costs, competition reduction, international competition, and repeated games can be further developed.
- The paper states that transaction costs and competition reduction are discussed but not formalized, and that international competition and protective measures require further discussion.
- Evident from the text: the analysis is analytical/illustrative rather than empirically estimated, and the figures rely on stylized assumptions and are not calibrated to observed data.
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“The latter, in particular, are the main carriers of opportunity costs that work against networks in general (Cafaggi, 2011; Dubey, 2024; Pastore et al., 2020; Williamson, 2004).”
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“When we introduce competition in scenario B the non-cooperative choice becomes dominant, due to competition and the absence of rev enues (pq = 0) in the case of a cooperative choice against a noncooperative choice of the other player.”
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“Our benchmark model reproduces a typical tragedy of the common.”
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“If even one player does not coop erate and chooses cR = 0, since there is production by (2) in the next period Q decreases and thus the production (c) and regeneration costs ( R * ( Q , E ) 2 ) increase.”
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“Inspecting the payoffs of a single player is sufficient (since they are identical) to conclude that not cooperating and thus not regenerating the common good is the dominant strategy ( cRX = 0, cRY = 0).”
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“Based on this assumption we can briefly show a typical coordination failure result in a game involving the simultaneous choice of two iden tical entrepreneurs (easily extendable to a higher number of players/ producers) between two strategies: i) investing in regeneration, each paying half ( cR = R * 2 ), or ii) not investing ( cR = 0).”
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“the result is standard, such that the price equals the marginal cost of labor.”
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“Market failure can be also induced in the model by strong competi tion that drives the price so low that it makes investing to restore the quality of the common good (and compensating for negative external ities) economically unsustainable.”
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“We also show that the opportunity of investing in circular economy, by improving preservation and regeneration technologies that can in crease the value of the natural resource, raises gains from cooperation.”
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“Another insight of the model is that excess competition among local producers can bring down prices to a point where resources for investment in regeneration are insufficient.”
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“Please note that in the case of perfect competition, the scenario of type B would lead to non-cooperation, so both players would choose the exit option at time 3, and production would cease, leaving the common good deteriorate.”
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“When this happens, profit maximization occurs for a marginal return equal to the marginal cost, which means choosing a lower quantity and thus lower employ ment and higher profits.”
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“Whenever the production costs are/became higher than the cost of regeneration, there is no dominant strategy, and the two Nash equilibria are always of the non-cooperative type ( cRX = 0, cRY = R*), ( cRX = R*, cRY = 0).”
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“If the players do not quit the market and proceed to play, they face scenario B at time 3.”
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“Consequently, the dynamics of the quali-quantity of the natural resource common in the model is such that, period by period, production and restoration costs increase, reducing employment and income.”
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“Local producers can tackle the problem by costly investing in the regeneration of the natural resource, but they are subject to a typical coordination failure problem.”
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“Starting from a common good with perfect quali-quantity (Q = 1), players do not cooperate, contributing to degrade Q over time, increasing production costs, and thus reducing incomes and employment.”
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“Please note that, in case of perfect competition, the type-B scenario would lead not to cooperate such that, in case of low revenues, pro ducers would choose the exit option at time two, and in case of middle or higher revenues, they would anyway gain less profits compared to the choice of cooperating since the beginning.”
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“It is easy to observe that, in the model, such a penalty, P, will be effective if P > C 1 C R * 2 ∧ P > C 2 C 1 R * 2 .”
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“Consequently, firms will not regenerate and the costs would in crease leading to scenario C or they may return to scenario A.”
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“It should be noted that the cooperative option maintained over time leads to a better result in the long term if ∑ pq R*/2 C is greater than the other strategies, a condition that depends on how much regeneration and non-regeneration costs increase as quality decreases.”
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“Investing in regeneration is the dominant strategy in this scenario, which is reached only if it is possible to profit even with very high costs and thus cannot apply in most cases.”
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“A higher efficiency of regeneration (E), caused by higher social and technological capacities in circular economy techniques and technolo gies, reduces the regeneration cost and improves the cooperative”
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“At time 1, players face a scenario of type B. If both cooperate, their production costs go back to time zero level. If only one cooperates, their production costs fall to the level indicated by the red arrow. If neither cooperates, and revenues are low, they will both fail, otherwise, the production cost will increase.”
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“Therefore, if profits are still positive despite enormous costs, then the good will be restored, otherwise, the exit condition will be triggered, and it will be abandoned in its degraded state.”
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“If in the previous repeated scenario, both players chose not to cooperate and revenues are not low, they switch to scenario C at time 3. The dominant strategy is to cooperate, hence their production costs will return to the level at time zero.”
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“Corporate marginal production costs are inversely related to the qualiquantity of the natural resource common good which is subject to depletion in proportion to the level of output of any single player in the area.”
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“At time 1 producers face a type-A scenario. In case of low revenues, the producer decides for the exit option; otherwise, the dominant strategy is (nn), and accordingly, the production costs will increase in the following periods.”
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“When we introduce competition in scenario A, the price is that of the non-cooperative choice, which being lower than the cooperative choice, renders the payoff of the latter negative and therefore not selectable given the exit condition.”
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“The increase in costs over time is such that either companies no longer meet their budget constraints and exit the market (exit condition) or the costs, which grow more than proportionally, lead to scenario B”
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“We start by emphasizing how the degradation of the natural resource common due to market failure, coordination failure, and free riding can lead to a decrease in the income and employment generated by local economic activities.”
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“The natural resource progressively depletes making pro ductive activity not feasible anymore in the future.”
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“Their investment taken per se has small and negligible effects while coordinated regeneration action of all players could solve the issue.”
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“while network contracts can create a legal framework preventing coordination failures and increasing the effectiveness of individual willingness to act cooperatively”
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“The aim is to reduce the acceleration of entropy, i.e., the amount of matter and energy that becomes unusable for processes that generate output.”
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“Pursuing the circularity of the common good in the view of our model also means maintaining its quality; therefore, avoiding pollution in a broad sense, as it is the useable quantity that matters as input.”
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“The most important aspect of network contracts is that they aim to maintain or generate competitive advantages and thus pertain more strictly to the traditional economic sphere (Cafaggi, 2011; Pastore et al., 2020).”
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“Biodigesters are examples of how addressing SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy) -by generating clean, renewable energy from biomass, contributing to sustainable energy production, SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production) by transforming agricultural waste into energy in compliance with circular economy practices, directly supporting Target 12.5, which focuses on reducing waste generation”
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“This mode of energy production has several advantages. It enables the production of clean energy while preserving air, soil, and water, characterizes the territory, stabilizes electricity costs, transforms waste into value, and allows for profit from the surplus produced if the generated energy exceeds demand (Ioannou et al., 2018; Jesus et al., 2021).”
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“The first is, when possible, to distribute well-defined and exclusive property rights so that the owner ' s interest coincides with that of the portion of the common good assigned to her/him (Coase, 1960).”
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“This is pursued by attempting to create a closed and reversible cycle, where the minimum possible input is acquired and transformed so that the recycled output can be reused as input in other processes (Bova, 2022).”
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“However, when it depends on natural common goods, it must do so harmoniously with local wellbeing, cultural identity, and environmental sustainability needs that can create a divergence between quality targets among stakeholders on the natural resource common.”
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“In summary, the network contract acts as a catalyst for change, promoting collaboration and synergy among various actors to achieve primarily competitive advantage goals.”
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“To provide an example the quality of a river for the enjoyment of local communities and tourists that contribute to the local economy can be higher than the minimum quality required for industry and agriculture use.”
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“Circular economy is a key strategy for sustainable development that can be applied to natural resources including soil, air, and water, and related activities from agriculture to services (Duncan and Pascucci, 2016; Hamam et al., 2021; Morseletto et al., 2022; Pomoni et al., 2024).”
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“These institutions manage transaction costs, uncertainty, coordination, and other relevant aspects in the formation and exchange of property rights, as well as the manner and efficiency with which production and consumption incentives are mobilized (Huylenbroeck et al., 2009; Menard, 1995; North, 1990).”
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“This allocation can be efficient if transaction costs are low and there is perfect information, thus it is not always feasible or convenient ( ´ Sleszy ´ nski, 2024).”
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“The relevance of circular economy in addressing problems of natural resource commons is because the former allows for maintaining the value generated, or that can be generated, by natural resources by creating a closed cycle in which non-raw (reused, recycled) material inputs are maximized, increasing natural efficiency and maintaining the quality of ecosystem services, while non-reusable or”
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“An obvious drawback of this choice is that it would reduce welfare by preventing universal access.”
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“Additionally, price stability and possible local co-ownership, especially if the cost is competitive, promote the emergence of energy-intensive activities and generally contribute to maintaining employment, generating income, regional development, and energy security (Gold and Seuring, 2011; G ´ omez et al., 2017; Kaundinya et al., 2013; Singh et al., 2020).”
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“The above-mentioned institutions can work on various natural resource commons and deal with issues concerning agriculture in nature reserves, forests, parks, and the success of related circular economy practices (van Berkum and Dengerink, 2019; Boger, 2001; Jurgilevich et al., 2016; Morseletto et al., 2022; Pomoni et al., 2024; Williamson, 2004).”
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“Strengthening the role of institutions that manage natural resource commons is a progress toward several SDGs such as SDG 16 (Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions), SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production), SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals) and SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities)”
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“An example of hybrid organizations using network contracts and monitoring to foster circular economy through collaboration, which is particularly relevant to our aims, is the partnership between COMIECO and CONAI in Italy.”
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“Hence, very high circular economy efficiency in regeneration can allow players to maintain the natural common good over time if reve nues are not too low. However, cooperating from the beginning provides higher profits.”
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“An example of successful government intervention in this direction is the creation of the COMIECO consortium for recycled paper discussed in section 2.3.”
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“These costs act as a sort of 'cooperative entrance barrier ' , potentially preventing the birth of network contracts and multistakeholder agencies and the relative benefit in terms of quality of the common good, employment, and revenues.”
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“The network contracts should contain clauses imposing regeneration investment on each member, thereby avoiding coordina tion failure.”
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“Thus, entrepreneurs who focus on the short term do not concern themselves with quali-quantity of the natural resource common and generate a negative externality, namely waste-pollution (qr), without bearing the costs (R).”
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“These costs grow as the number of agents involved - that were not already cooperating - grow and decline as social capital and relational skills increase.”
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“If the impact is negligible, the entrepreneur has no control over the future value of Q and maximizes profit period by period without investing in R and maintaining the activity as long as it remains profitable”
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“This collaboration enabled Italy to achieve an 87.3% paper and cardboard recycling rate by 2020, surpassing the EU ' s 85% target set for 2035 (Comieco, 2023), demonstrating the effectiveness of hybrid governance in aligning economic and environmental objectives.”
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“Thus, on the one hand, spontaneously internalizing the externalities leads to failure, and on the other hand, not doing so also leads to failure.”
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“Network agreements are fundamental since, without a change in in centives, in games of common goods, non-cooperative behaviors would empirically prevail, leading to the natural selection of, or adaptation into, non-cooperative agents (Burton-Chellew et al., 2015; Perc et al., 2013).”
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“Agents can formulate expectations on counterpart behavior, and thus trust or distrust.”
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“It concurs to switch faster to the second and third scenarios and, accordingly, it improves the chances of regeneration even without cooperation and the willingness to be cooperative regardless of the other decision.”
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“This occurs if the entrepreneurs are coor dinated, and the coordinated system significantly impacts and prevents free riding.”
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“Furthermore, if the reduction in competition is due to the presence of few entities or only one, the assumption that the impact on qualiquantity is negligible also no longer holds, and consequently, to maxi mize intertemporal profits, the entrepreneur can invest in R.”
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“When competition decreases, the assumption that an entrepreneur or a group of entrepreneurs cannot determine the price (price-taker) and that profits are zero (perfect competition) no longer holds, and the marginal return can be higher than p (dp/dq < 0).”
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“Degradation and costs increase, and continuing the economic activity may no longer be worthwhile, leading to its cessation and leaving the common good degraded, without generating income or employment.”
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“Therefore, the effect is twofold: on the one hand, consumer surplus decreases due to higher prices and lower quantity supplied; on the other hand, lower production reduces the impact of waste-pollution.”
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“Another component of the paradox is that, on one hand, perfect competition increases consumer surplus and employment in the short term, leading to company failure in the long term, while on the other hand, reducing competition means reducing consumer surplus and employment, although, as discussed, this leads to the reduction of wastepollution and the internalization of costs.”
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“Assigning property to a single company is not the only way to avoid coordination failure. Hybrid forms of governance such as network contracts can achieve the same result.”
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“Therefore, not investing in qualiquantity progressively leads to an increase in marginal production costs and a reduction in employment and income in the medium and long term.”
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“It is necessary that the players ' choices are observed and that a penalty is imposed -through contract or law -that makes the payoff of the non-cooperative choice worse.”
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“If this is not true, we would have a shift towards the third solution where restoration is convenient even for individuals, which we exclude because it means that the problem, in fact, does not exist.”
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“This combination would safeguard income, employment, and benefits for the well-being of the locals and the ecosystem.”
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“To address this scenario, a joint use of network contracts and a multistakeholder hybrid organization responsible for monitoring the contract, including citizens and the government, is possible.”
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“Furthermore, depending on supply and demand elasticity and estimation capability, one or the other may be more convenient (Weitzman, 1974).”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Weitzman, 1974 source
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“Finally, such government policies are not reactive and adaptive but tend to be rigid, with potential loss of effec tiveness and efficiency over time compared to solutions that directly involve the agents in the field.”
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“The circular economy practices we discussed in the literature review are key regeneration tools requiring collective investment (e.g., com munity biodigesters) or can be implemented individually, such as the reduction of unsustainable pesticides.”
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“Taxes can internalize social costs, pay double dividends, and continuously incen tivize pollution reduction.”
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“The second can prevent excessive reduction of competitive pressure, monitor, and coordinate activities on the common good to maintain high qualiquantity, thereby ensuring well-being and environmental quality.”
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“As is well known, Elinor Ostrom (1990, 2008) demonstrates how communities can successfully manage common-pool resources (CPRs) without relying on top-down regulation by the state or privatization, even in situations with incomplete con tracts where not all contingencies can be regulated.”
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“The latter can define contract goals in a multistakeholder perspective monitor the re sults of the network contract and prevent competition from being excessively reduced, leading to oligopolies or monopolies that would negatively impact consumer surplus and employment.”
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“By network agreements, we mean networking alliances as a non-legally enforceable set of proposed tasks and strategies undersigned by the counterparts that indicate modes of cooperation and make cooperation feasible and more likely, thereby helping to make the cooperative equilibrium an achievable focal point.”
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- Not checked yetcites Becchetti et al., 2023 source
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“An adequately structured network entity can fall into this category if it becomes the owner or co-owner of a significant part of the common good.”
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“Conversely, reducing competition to allow margins for investment in restoring the common good could lead to the emergence of oligopolies or monopolies, reducing consumer surplus and employment.”
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“Through the first, it is possible to select participants, monitor and assign re sponsibilities, and simultaneously reduce competitive pressure to enable the internalization of externalities and investment capacity.”
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- Rests on an assumption: Situations with incomplete contracts, where not all contingencies can be regulated, can occur.
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“These tools sometimes require coordination, in other cases monitoring, and thus fit well within a network contract or a hybrid organization designed for this purpose.”
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The paper relies on this without support.
The main conditions that make the tragedy of the commons happen are open access (non-excludability) to the rivalrous common good, lack of information, negative externalities, and the absence of well-defined and exclusive property rights.
“The main conditions that make this ' tragedy ' happen are open access (non-excludability) to the rivalrous common good, lack of information, negative externalities, and the absence of well-defined and exclusive property rights.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
In the process of production, entrepreneurs generate waste-pollution that reduces the quali-quantity unless they incur regeneration expenses.
“In the process of production, they generate waste-pollution that reduces the quali-quantity unless they incur regeneration expenses.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
The entrepreneur is a profit maximizer (π), having labor (L) and the common good of sufficient quali-quantity (Q) as production factors, with the latter being freely accessible.
“We model the choice of the entrepreneur, assumed to be a profit maximizer ( π ), and having labor (L) and the common good of sufficient quali-quantity (Q) as production factors, with the latter being freely accessible.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
The market is perfectly competitive where entrepreneurs are price-takers, meaning the price (p) is constant and the impact of the quantity supplied (q) by a single entrepreneur is negligible (dp/dq ≈ 0).
“Initially, we assume a market with perfect competition where entrepreneurs are price-takers, meaning the price (p) is constant and the impact of the quantity supplied (q) by a single entrepreneur is negligible (dp/dq ≈ 0).”
The authors state this as an assumption.
The full regeneration cost R* is zero if the quali-quantity is already maximum, increases as the quali-quantity decreases, and decreases as the circular economy regeneration efficiency E increases.
“Let us label the full regeneration cost R*. The full regeneration cost is zero if the quali-quantity is already maximum (i.e., there is no need for regeneration), increases as the quali-quantity decreases, and decreases as the circular economy regeneration efficiency E increases.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
The factors impacting on Q, namely (R0 + ∑Ri(cRi, E), ∑qi ri), are taken as given when the i-th entrepreneur makes her choice about cRi.
“Additionally, we will assume that the factors impacting on Q, namely ( R 0 + ∑ Ri cRi , E ) ∑ qi r i ) , which will vary to formulate different scenarios, are taken as given when the i-th entrepreneur makes her choice about cRi .”
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p, r, E, and R0 are positive and constant over time.
“Finally, for simplicity and without lack of generality, we assume, unless specifically indicated otherwise, that p, r, E, and R0 are positive and constant over time.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
In the short term, investing in R has null impact on the common good because regeneration investment has effects in the subsequent period.
“In the short term, the impact of investing in the quali-quantity of the common good (R) is null, as the regeneration investment has effects in the subsequent period.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
Each entrepreneur has an exit option and, being a profit maximizer, ceases activity when it generates losses.
“Each entrepreneur has an exit option and, being a profit maximizer, ceases activity when it generates losses.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
No natural regeneration mechanisms are at work (R0 = 0).
“No natural regeneration mechanisms are at work (R0 = 0) to emphasize the importance of cooperation in preventing the deteri oration of the natural common good.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
The amount of output produced by a single producer (q) is chosen along with R and thus is the same for all strategy combinations.
“The amount of output produced by a single producer (q) is chosen along with R and thus is the same for all strategy combinations.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
Because these are common goods and players can enter and exit, it is impossible to establish trust between players or expectations about the other, making the games non cooperative and one-shot.
“Because these are common goods and players can enter and exit, it is impossible to establish trust between players or expectations about the other, making the games non cooperative and one-shot.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
In scenario A, if both invest in regeneration costs remain constant; if only one invests costs increase in period 2; if no one invests production costs increase even more but less than R*/2.
“Given cost function characteristics in (3) we can conveniently as sume, without lack of generality that: i) if both invest in regeneration ( R * 2 ), costs remain constant over time (C); ii) if only one invests in regeneration, costs (C1) increase in period 2 (C1 > C); iii) if no one invests, production costs (C2) increase even more (C1 < C2) but, in any case, by definition, less than R * 2”
The authors state this as an assumption.
In scenario B, C2/C1 > R*/2 > C1/C.
“Similar to the previous scenario, but C 2 C 1 > R * 2 > C 1 C .”
The authors state this as an assumption.
In scenario C, C2/C1 > C1/C > R*/2.
“Similar to the previous scenario, but C 2 C 1 > C 1 C > R * 2 .”
The authors state this as an assumption.
In the competitive version, if an entrepreneur has higher costs than the other, and this applies only to the case of different choices, then they have no returns due to competition.
“If an entrepreneur has higher costs than the other, and this applies only to the case of different choices, then they have no returns due to competition.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
If there is a dominant strategy, systematically lower cost and higher profit, then competition results in zero profit, making the alternative necessarily negative in profit and thus not selectable due to the exit condition.
“If there is a dominant strategy, systematically lower cost and higher profit, then competition results in zero profit, making the alternative necessarily negative in profit and thus not selectable due to the exit condition.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
There exists an optimal level of quality-quantity of the natural resource common that is higher for local communities than for businesses.
“considering that there exists an optimal level of quality-quantity of the natural resource common (e.g., the river) that is higher for local communities (due to preferences related to the enjoyment of environmental amenities or tourism development) than for businesses.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Situations with incomplete contracts, where not all contingencies can be regulated, can occur.
“It is possible to find oneself in situations with incomplete contracts where not all contingencies can be regulated.”
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Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
Each contradiction between two passages listed here was confirmed by an independent check.
Rated minor: it would not touch a result — a value no result rests on, a p-value that stays on the same side of the significance level, or a conflict that is clerical, resolved elsewhere in the paper, or outside its own findings.
In the paper
§ 3.2.2. Scenario B: no dominant strategy, lack of cooperation · p. 5
“Consequently, firms will not regenerate”
§ 3.2.2. Scenario B: no dominant strategy, lack of cooperation · p. 5
“( cRX = 0, cRY = R*), ( cRX = R*, cRY = 0).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Becchetti, L., Bova, D. M., & Raffaele, L.
- Affiliations
- University of Rome Tor Vergata (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Becchetti, Leonardo
- Venue
- Journal of Cleaner Production
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2024
- Volume
- 486
- Pages
- 144520-144520
- ISSN
- 0959-6526 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4405494973
- Cited by
- 16
- References
- 59
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 11
- FWCI
- 4.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Journal of Cleaner Production (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Sustainable Development and Environmental Management
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
- Keywords
- circular economy, tragedy of the commons, network contracts, multi-stakeholder governance, coordination failure, overexploitation, free-riding, short-termism, stakeholder heterogeneity, commons governance
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