This paper examines strategic behaviour in the context of a dynamic common-pool resource game with a unique symmetric subgame equilibrium. Solving the model for its optimal solution and its subgame perfect equilibrium provides benchmarks for behavior observed in laboratory experiments. Baseline experiments, which portray a "rule of capture" for establishing ownership with group size equal to 10, achieve an average efficiency of 30%. Experiments that restrict entry, with group size equal to 5, increase average efficiency to 44%. Experiments applying a stock quota show more marked improvement in efficiency, averaging 54%. The stock quota come closet to producing data consistent with subgame perfection.
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Paper provided by University of Bonn, Germany in its series Discussion Paper Serie B with number
278.
Length: pages Date of creation: Feb 1994 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:bon:bonsfb:278
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