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Overcoming the Common Pool Problem Through Voluntary Cooperation : The Rise and Fall of a Fishery Cooperative
Deacon, Robert - 2010
overall catch quota to a voluntary cooperative, with the remainder exploited as a commons by those choosing to fish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138469
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Non-Parametric Tests of the Tragedy of the Commons
Banzhaf, H. Spencer - 2019
-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.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents of developing countries may download this …
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Punishment and Cooperation in Stochastic Social Dilemmas
Xiao, Erte; Kunreuther, Howard - 2021
paper, we conduct experiments to investigate how punishment affects cooperation in a two-person stochastic prisoner … useful information for designing efficient incentive mechanisms to induce cooperation in a stochastic social dilemma …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224395
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Starting Small : Endogenous Stakes and Rational Cooperation
Andreoni, James - 2016
types can be exploited to enhance cooperation by structuring the twice-played prisoners' dilemma to “start small,” so that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999993
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Games and Resources
Harstad, Bård - 2012
This article presents a sequence of simple and related models to analyze the strategic use of natural resources. Game theory is the natural tool for such an analysis, whether the resource is private or publicly owned, whether it is renewable or exhaustible, whether the game is static or dynamic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098144
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Friend or Foe? A Natural Experiment of the Prisoner's Dilemma
List, John A. - 2010
such an experiment in the laboratory, the cost to gather the data would be well over $350,000. The data reveal several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012761706
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Deterministic and Stochastic Prisoner'S Dilemma Games : Experiments in Interdependent Security
Kunreuther, Howard; Silvasi, Gabriel; Bradlow, Eric; … - 2021
This paper examines experiments on interdependent security prisoner's dilemma games with repeated play. By utilizing a Bayesian hierarchical model, we examine how subjects make investment decisions as a function of their previous experience and their treatment condition. Our main findings are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224436
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Collective Action : Experimental Evidence
Anauati, Maria Victoria - 2015
We conducted a laboratory experiment to test the comparative statics predictions of a new approach to collective action … increases. The experiment also points to new avenues for refining the theory. We find that, as the payoff of a successful … also allows to decompose the mechanism that leads to more cooperation into a ”belief effect” and a ”range of cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028558
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Voluntary Public Goods Provision, Coalition Formation, and Uncertainty
Burger, Nick - 2009
The literature on voluntary provision of public goods includes recent theoretical work on the formation of voluntary coalitions to provide public goods. Theory is ambiguous on the equilibrium coalition size and contribution rates. We examine the emergence of coalitions, their size, and how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153581
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To Give or Not to Give : The Price of Contributing and the Provision of Public Goods
Diederich, Johannes - 2013
We examine the relationship between the price of giving and the decision to contribute in a framed field experiment (n …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077652