Fehr, Ernst; Leibbrandt, Andreas - In: Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011) 9-10, pp. 1144-1155
This paper examines the role of cooperativeness and impatience in the exploitation of common pool resources (CPRs) by combining laboratory experiments with field data. We study fishermen whose main, and often only, source of income stems from the use of fishing grounds with open access. The...