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SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar: Martin Dufwenberg - Bocconi University
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Triggering Cooperation\nAbstract:\nCooperation of users is fundamental to t
 he management of common pool resources. Russell Hardin took the pessimistic
  view that we are headed for a tragedy of the commons, but Elinor Ostrom po
 inted to many examples of successful cooperative local institutions. Her wo
 rk inspired large scale forest devolution reforms in many developing countr
 ies. Unfortunately, success has been limited. There seems to be a gap in kn
 owledge on how cooperation is triggered, especially after rapid change on m
 anagement rights. We bring a new proposal to the table, which in theory tri
 ggers cooperation at low cost. The idea is to provide prospective forest ow
 ners with outside-options, so that participation becomes voluntary. Combine
  the insight that social preferences transform social dilemmas into coordin
 ation problems with the logic of forward induction; the prediction is that 
 the outside options will be rejected and that the foresters will help each 
 other in the woods. The outside options may be costly to provide if chosen,
  but in theory those burdens are counterfactual and no cost is thus incurre
 d. We test the empirical relevance of our proposal in a lab-in-the-field ex
 periment in the Ethiopian highlands.\n
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