framed field experiment that is based on a rangeland model for semi-arid regions and carried out with communal farmers in …

The institutional and ecological structure of Hardin’s “tragedy of the commons” appears deceptively simple: the open … “tragedy of the commons” probably would not arise regardless of the pasture’s open-access status …

excluding one member from team communication hurts team cooperation: the communicating partners collude in profit allocation … partners to reach out to the excluded member helps to restore cooperation and fairness in profit allocation. But it does not …

Assortative mechanisms can overcome tragedies of the commons that otherwise result in dilemma situations. Assortativity … dilemma games, thus quantifying to what extent tragedy of the commons may be endogenously overcome …

variations in a setting where probabilistic degradation of the commons is linked to group appropriation. Thus, this setting …

, appropriation leads to deterministic degradation in the value of the commons. In the second game, appropriation leads to both … conserving the commons. The experimental design abstracts away from path-dependent group dynamics that allow for reputation … due to expected losses in the value of the commons. …

monetary allocation. In a within-subject design we randomly introduce a small or large conditional payment for allowing for a …