时间：6月6日（周五）下午14:00—15:30

地点：国家治理大数据和人工智能创新平台（教一1301）大研讨室

主讲人简介

Dr. James Murphy

Professor of Economics at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA)

Dr. James Murphy is a Professor of Economics at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA). He arrived at UAA in 2006 as the Rasmuson Chair of Economics.  Before that, he was on the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He received his Ph.D. in 1999 from the University of California Davis and studied experimental economics as a pre-doctoral fellow at the University of Arizona under Vernon Smith.  As part of a university partnership to develop a new experimental economics program in China, he was a visiting professor at Nankai University and Chairman of their new Nankai Vernon L. Smith Experimental Economics Laboratory from 2014 to 2018. He also holds appointments as an affiliated faculty member at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Chapman University and the University of Wyoming.

Dr. Murphy’s research focuses on the use of experimental methods to address environmental policy and natural resource management issues.  His research includes:

1. fisheries management in Alaska and in Chile;

2. field experiments in Western Alaska and Far East Russia to study subsistence harvest practices;

3. charitable giving and philanthropy in Alaska;

4. issues related to enforcement of and compliance with environmental regulations, particularly emissions trading programs;

5. field experiments in Colombia to understand how rural communities manage small-scale natural resources;

6. the design of water markets in California.

Dr. Murphy is Treasurer and member of the Executive Committee for the Economic Science Association. He is on the editorial board for both the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and Strategic Behavior and the Environment. He was an active board member of the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics 2009-2022, and was a member of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council’s Scientific and Statistical Committee from 2011-2013.

内容概要

This work presents the results of framed field experiments designed to study the joint problem of managing harvests from a common pool resource and protecting the resource from poaching. The experiments were conducted both in the field with TURF users and in the lab with university students. Our study has two objectives. First, we designed our experiments to study the effects of poaching on the ability of common pool resource users to coordinate their harvests when encroachment by outsiders is unrestricted and when the government provides weak enforcement. Second, we examine the ability of common pool resource users to simultaneously coordinate their harvests and investments in monitoring to deter poaching with and without government assistance in monitoring. Weak external monitoring that was predicted to have no effect actually led to significantly lower poaching relative to unrestricted poaching. However, neither giving sole responsibility for monitoring to resource users nor combining user and government monitoring affected poaching levels much. Our results suggest that users of a common pool resource may have difficulties coordinating their efforts to deter poachers, even with help from government authorities. We find no important qualitative differences in the behavior of TURF users and university students.