Vollan B. (forthcoming) WEIRD reciprocity? A 'within-culture across-country' trust experiment and methodological implications. Journal of Institutional Economics
Vollan B. (2012) Pitfalls of Externally Initiated Collective Action: A Case Study from South Africa. World Development, 40,4, 758-770.
Hayo B., Vollan B. (2012) Group Interaction, Heterogeneity, Rules, and Co-operative Behaviour: Evidence from a Common-Pool Resource Experiment in South Africa and Namibia. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 81,1, 9-28.
Prediger S., Vollan B., Frölich M. (2011) The impact of culture and ecology on cooperation in a common-pool resource experiment. Ecological Economics, 70,9, 1599-1608
Anderies, J.M., et al., (2011) The challenge of understanding decisions in experimental studies of common pool resource governance. Ecological Economics, 70,9, 1571-1579.
Vollan B. (2011) The difference between kinship and friendship: (Field-) experimental evidence on trust and punishment. Journal of Socio-Economics, 40,1,14-25.
Vollan B., Ostrom E. (2010) Cooperation and the Commons. Science, 330, 6006, 923-924.
Vollan B., Prediger S., Frölich M. (2010) The influence of collective property rights on grazing management in a semi-arid region. African Journal of Agriculture and Resource Economics, 6,1, 372-401.
Schlüter A., Vollan B. (2010): Morals as an incentive? A field study on honour based flower picking. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 38,1,79-97
Vollan B. (2008): Socio-ecological explanations for crowding-out effects from economic field experiments in southern Africa. Ecological Economics, 67, 4, 560-573
Schlüter A., Vollan B. (2011) “Ohne Moral keine Institutionen ökologischer Nachhaltigkeit - Eine empirische Untersuchung anhand eines Marktes, der sich auf Moral verlässt: Blumen zum Selbstschneiden” in Institutionen ökologischer Nachhaltigkeit "Jahrbuch Normative und institutionelle Grundfragen der Ökonomik" Band 9, Editors: Held, Kubon-Gilke, Sturn. Metropolis Verlag, Marburg.
Domptail S. E. et al. (2010): An ecological-economic analysis of the pastoral systems of the Nama Karoo in southern Namibia. – In: Hoffman, M.T., Schmiedel, U., Jürgens,N. (eds.): Biodiversity in southern Africa 3: Implications for landuse and management: 76-107 Göttingen & Windhoek: Klaus Hess Publishers.
Schmiedel, U., et al. (2010): Environmental and socio-economic patterns and processes in the Succulent Karoo—frame conditions for the management of this biodiversity hotspot. – In: Hoffman, M.T., Schmiedel, U., Jürgens,N. (eds.): Biodiversity in southern Africa 3: Implications for landuse and management: 109–150. Göttingen & Windhoek: Klaus Hess Publishers.
Vollan B. (2009): “Co-operation for Common Pool Resources: An Experimental Perspective”, Dissertation Philipps-Universität Marburg, Verlag Dr. Hut, München.
Vollan B. (2009) “Determinants and measurement of trust: Experiments and survey questions on trust in southern Africa” in Beiträge der genossenschaftlichen Selbsthilfe zur wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Entwicklung, Editors: Rösner, Hans Jürgen and Schulz-Nieswandt, Frank; Lit Verlag, Berlin. Best Paper award at XVI. International Conference on Cooperative Studies, Cologne, Germany, 7-9 October 2008.
Vollan B. (2008): “The role of deliberation and voting in an economic field experiment in rural communities of southern Namibia and northern South Africa” in Deliberative Ecological Economics, Editors: Howarth, R. and Zografos, C., Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Vollan B. (2007) “Welfare effects and political economy of Export processing zones (EPZ): The case of the Dominican Republic.” VDM Verlag, Saarbrücken.