A field study on cooperativeness and impatience in the Tragedy of the Commons

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 95, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 1144-1155

  Fehr, Ernst ^c   Leibbrandt, Andreas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Common pool resource; Cooperation; Experiments; Generalizability; Impatience; Methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961024479     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2011.05.013     Document Type: Article

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