be inspected and to be cited for violating pollution standards. Yet the treatment was weaker for more consequential … only marginally increased compliance with standards and did not significantly reduce mean pollution emissions. To explain …

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 …

-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 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 …