Regulating the Commons: The Interplay between Information and Catch Limits with Two Types of Resources
通过空间公共池塘资源实验,研究了两种常见规制(集体限额与个体限额)以及信息共享对两种资源(目标物种与受保护兼捕物种)开采的影响,发现集体限额下信息共享会加剧道德风险。
Empirically identifying effective resource management strategies is challenging with many concurrent regulations. We focus on two common regulations in a spatial common pool resource experiment that involves extracting two different types of resources. Pooled or individual-specific limits regulate harvest of a protected resource, which co-locates with the desirable resource. The experiment design mimics the extraction of target species and protected bycatch in commercial fisheries. We find three key results without other regulations. Desirable resource harvests are lower under pooled than individual limits; information sharing increases desirable resource harvests with individual limits, but exacerbates moral hazard under pooled limits.