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Output Sharing Among Groups Exploiting Common Pool Resources

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  • Stephan Schott
  • Neil Buckley
  • Stuart Mestelman
  • R. Andrew Muller

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Many economic decisions are susceptible to either free-riding, or excessive rivalry or overextraction. Equally sharing output in partnerships introduces a free-riding incentive which may offset the latter. We conduct a laboratory experiment to assess the performance of output sharing in partnerships by introducing equal-sharing subgroups of size one, four and six into a twelve-person common pool resource (CPR) environment. Group members are either unchanging throughout a 15 period session (the partners treatment), or randomly reassigned each decision round (the strangers treatment). Group size significantly affects effort. Aggregate effort reflects the Nash equilibrium predictions. The first best solution is achieved when resource users are privately extracting from the CPR and equally sharing their output with the socially optimal number of partners. The strangers treatment does not significantly affect aggregate effort. Total payoff distribution, however, is more equitable for strangers than for partners.

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Paper provided by McMaster University in its series McMaster Experimental Economics Laboratory Publications with number 2004-05.

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Length: 32 pages
Date of creation: May 2004
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Handle: RePEc:mcm:mceelp:2004-05

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  1. Matthew J. Baker & Kurtis Swope, 2004. "Sharing, Gift-Giving, and Optimal Resource Use Incentives in Hunter-Gatherer Society," Departmental Working Papers 8, United States Naval Academy Department of Economics.
  2. Martin D. Heintzelman & Stephen W. Salant & Stephan Schott, 2005. "Partnerships: A Potential Solution to the Common-Property Problem but a Problem for a Antitrust Authorities," Levine's Working Paper Archive 784828000000000040, David K. Levine.

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