internal rivalry. Driven by deregulation and advances in information technologies, many historical institutional distinctions …

members of an information sharingCooperative. Once collected, information about the location of productive sh-ing sites is an … excludable public good. We show that independent shermen donot internalize the full value of information and do not replicate rst …-best searchpatterns. An information sharing Cooperative faces a free-riding problem as eachmember prefers that another undertake costly …