The Effect of Constrained Communication and Limited Information in Governing a Common Resource

dc.contributor.authorJanssen, Marco
dc.contributor.authorTyson, Madeline
dc.contributor.authorLee, Allen
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-17T17:18:18Z
dc.date.available2014-10-17T17:18:18Z
dc.date.issued2014en_US
dc.description.abstract"Allowing resource users to communicate in behavioural experiments on commons dilemmas increases the level of cooperation. In actual common pool resource dilemmas in the real world, communication is costly, which is an important detail missing from most typical experiments. We conducted experiments where participants must give up harvesting opportunities to communicate. The constrained communication treatment is compared with the effect of limited information about the state of the resource and the actions of the other participants. We find that despite making communication costly, performance of groups improves in all treatments with communication. We also find that constraining communication has a more significant effect than limiting information on the performance of groups."en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournalInternational Journal of the Commonsen_US
dc.identifier.citationmonthAugusten_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber2en_US
dc.identifier.citationpages617-635en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume8en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10535/9601
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subjectcommon pool resourcesen_US
dc.subjectlaboratory experimentsen_US
dc.subjectcommunicationen_US
dc.subject.sectorInformation & Knowledgeen_US
dc.titleThe Effect of Constrained Communication and Limited Information in Governing a Common Resourceen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.type.methodologyTheoryen_US
dc.type.publishedpublisheden_US

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