Property-Rights Regimes and Natural Resources: A Conceptual Analysis
澄清了“公共财产资源”一词的混淆用法,构建了区分不同产权束的概念框架,并应用于缅因州龙虾业等实证案例,帮助研究者准确分析产权制度。
ABSTRACT. The term "common-property resource" is an example of a term repeatedly used to refer to property owned by a government or by no one. It is also used for property owned by a community of resource users. Such usage leads to confusion in scientific study and policy analysis. In this paper we develop a conceptual schema for arraying property-rights regimes that distinguishes among diverse bundles of rights ranging from authorized user, to claimant, to proprietor, and to owner. We apply this conceptual schema to analyze findings from a variety of empirical settings including the Maine lobster industry. I.