Centralized common pool management and local community participation∗
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Unrestricted access to common-pool resources leads to individually rational extraction levels that are suboptimally high from a social perspective. In an experimental setting, we analyze to what extent local community participation can enhance the effectivity of a centralized enforcement institution aimed at decreasing aggregate extraction. We hypothesize that, by letting the resource users vote on the incentive structure faced by the enforcement institution, they can communicate their view on the desirability of reduced aggregate extraction. The results are mixed. On the one hand, less than half of all voting outcomes in the local participation treatment are in favor of awarding appropriate policing incentives to the enforcement institution. On the other hand, conditional upon having voted for the appropriate incentive structure, behavior in games with local participation is more cooperative than that in games where the incentives are imposed exogenously on the enforcement institution. These observations can be explained by the presence of subjects with reciprocal preferences in the subject pool, and by their interaction with the enforcement institution’s constraints. JEL classification: C92, D74, C72.
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تاریخ انتشار 2002