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100 1 0 _aBrunette, Marielle
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700 1 0 _a Delacote, Philippe
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700 1 0 _a Garcia, Serge
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700 1 0 _a Rousselle, Jean-Marc
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245 0 0 _aCommons as a risk-management tool: Theoretical predictions and an experimental test
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520 _aCommon-pool resources (CPR) are frequently used as risk-management tools against risk on private activities. This paper analyzes the impact of this use of CPR as a safety-net on individual investment into and extraction from the commons. Agents of the community first choose to invest in their private project and in the CPR; second, they choose how much to extract from their private project and the commons. The model compares two types of risk-management tool: CPR as (ex post) risk-coping and (ex ante) risk-diversification mechanisms. It also compares two situations regarding risk: risk on a private project and uncertainty on CPR investment by other community members. The theoretical predictions are empirically tested with experimental economics. To this end, we propose an original CPR game composed of an investment period and an extraction period. Our result clearly shows that risk reduction in the private project unambiguously decreases investment in the CPR, while it does not impact CPR extraction. We also show that a risk-coping strategy is well understood as more flexible and influenced by the outcome in terms of private project yield. JEL Classification: C33, H41, O13
690 _acommon-pool resource
690 _adeforestation
690 _arisk
690 _aexperimental economics
786 0 _nRevue d'économie politique | 130 | 3 | 2020-07-10 | p. 405-439 | 0373-2630
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-d-economie-politique-2020-3-page-405?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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