Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:04:01 BST CiteULike: hardins Maier-Rigaud http://www.citeulike.org/user/hardin/author/Maier-Rigaud CiteULike.org en-gb Copyright © 2004-2008 citeulike.org http://www.citeulike.org/user/hardin/article/833563 <i>Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 50, No. 5. (1 October 2006), pp. 646-663.</i><br /><br />Despite a large theoretical and empirical literature on public goods and common-pool resources, a systematic comparison of these two types of social dilemmas is lacking. In fact, there is some confusion about these two types of dilemma situations. As a result, they are often treated alike. In line with the theoretical literature, the authors argue that the degree of rivalry is the fundamental difference between the two games. Furthermore, they experimentally study behavior in a quadratic public good and a quadratic common-pool resource game with identical Pareto-optimum but divergent interior Nash equilibria. The results show that participants clearly perceive the differences in rivalry. Aggregate behavior in both games starts relatively close to Pareto efficiency and converges quickly to the respective Nash equilibrium. 10.1177/0022002706290433 The Role of Rivalry: Public Goods Versus Common-Pool Resources Jose Apesteguia Frank Maier-Rigaud doi:10.1177/0022002706290433 Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 50, No. 5. (1 October 2006), pp. 646-663. 2006-09-07T10:59:09-00:00 2006 Journal of Conflict Resolution 50 5 646 663 no-tag