commons. Using a dynamic model of competitive resource extraction, we show that improving property right security …

-parametric tests of behavior consistent with the tragedy of the commons model. Our approach derives testable implications of such … to panel data of Norwegian fishers, we find evidence rejecting the tragedy of the commons model. Significantly, we find … commons …

We revisit the effect of the "Eco-Patent Commons" (EcoPC) on the diffusion of patented environmentally friendly … patents covering 94 "green" inventions. Hall and Helmers (2013) suggested that the patents pledged to the commons had the … commons did not increase the diffusion of pledged inventions, and that the EcoPC suffered from several structural and …

Common resources may be managed with inefficient policies for the sake of equity. We study how rationing the commons …

The problem of the commons is more important to our lives and thus more central to economics than a century ago when … the commons. Within the realm of natural resources, there are special challenges associated with renewable resources …. Critical commons problems are also associated with environmental quality. A key contribution of economics has been the …

overall catch quota to a voluntary cooperative, with the remainder exploited as a commons by those choosing to fish …

We develop a theory of resource management where the degree to which countries escape the tragedy of the commons is … at any world price, have zero rents and suffer from the tragedy of the commons. Ostrom economies exhibit de facto open …