Inequality and outside options in common-property resource use

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Tarui, Nori
• 署名单位: Columbia University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2006.01.002
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 214-239
• 关键词: common property resource; COOPERATION; Dynamic game; INEQUALITY; credit

摘要

Using a dynamic intergenerational game, this paper analyzes the effects of inequality among resource users and their access to outside markets and credit on cooperative use of a local commons. The study finds that, depending on the agents' harvest sharing rule, the conditions under which homogeneous agents can cooperate in equilibrium may not be sufficient for cooperation when agents differ in harvesting productivity. The resource users' access to outside markets or credit may have a negative effect on efficient local resource management. (C) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.