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Optimal Altruism in Public Good Provision
Hahn, Robert; Ritz, Robert - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2014
tension between altruism and "crowding-out" effects (players' efforts are strategic substitutes). We find that more altruistic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010735930
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Heart of Darkness: Modeling Public-Private Funding Interactions Inside the R&D Black Box
David, Paul A.; Hall, Bronwyn H. - Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER), … - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010843307
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Heart of Darnkess: Public-Private Interactions Inside the R and D Black Box
David, Paul; Hall, Bronwyn - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1999
This paper is a first step toward closing the analytical gap in the extensive literature on the results of interactions between public and private R&D expenditures, and their joint effects on the economy. A survey focusing on econometric studies in this area reveals a plethora of sometimes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605271
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Social Norms and Private Provision of Public Goods: Endogenous Peer Groups
Rege, Mari - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 1999
The formation of peer groups with social norms for private contributions to a public good is analyzed in an n-player two stage game. First people choose a peer group, then they choose whether to contribute. The first choice is made through a learning process represented by evolutionary dynamics,...
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On the Crowding-Out Effects of Tax-Financed Charitable Contributions by the Government
Krause, Alan - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2011
An important question in the literature on charitable contributions is the extent to which tax-financed contributions by the government crowd out private contributions. This paper examines a simple model of charitable contributions in which there exist both warm-glow and public good motives for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008783906
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Do Taxes Crowd Out Intrinsic Motivation? Field-Experimental Evidence from Germany
Boyer, Pierre C.; Dwenger, Nadja; Rincke, Johannes - Max-Planck-Institut für Steuerrecht und öffentliche … - 2014
This paper studies how imposing norms on contribution behavior affects individuals' intrinsic motivation. We consider … fact that the levy is legally a tax. In cooperation with the church, we design a natural randomized field experiment with … baseline contribution behavior to measure individuals' intrinsic motivation and demonstrate that treatment effects differ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011202940
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The optimal composition of government expenditure among transfers, education and public goods.
Creedy, John; Moslehi, Solamz - In: Hacienda Pública Española 194 (2010) 3, pp. 41-64
This paper examines the optimal allocation of tax revenue among a universal transfer payment, a pure public good and expenditure on education. Using a single-period framework, education expenditure raises the productivity of individuals via a human capital production function. The social welfare...
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Isolating and identifying motivations: A voluntary contribution mechanism experiment with interior Nash equilibria
Kumakawa, Takehisa; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi; Yamato, Takehiko - School of Economics and Management, Kochi University of … - 2015
cooperative motivation when they know the other subject's payoff information. Altruistic motivation is found to be rare throughout … the experiment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011208171
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The Changing Public Role in Services to Agriculture: The Case of Information
Zezza, Annalisa - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2002
The paper analyzes the changes that have taken place in the nature of agriculture information and their consequences on the public role of related public services with specific regard to process undergoing in the European Union. Increased interest in food quality and food safety issues in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005493707
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Crowding out in an indefinitely repeated Asymmetric Trust Game
Dirkmaat, T.; Rosenkranz, S.; Buskens, V.W. - School of Economics, Universiteit Utrecht - 2006
In this paper we introduce an alternative version of the trust game by Dasgupta (1988) and Kreps (1990) that allows for asymmetric information. We use this version to study the effect of checking on the trustee’s behaviour, checking is a control option the trustor can decide to use and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040938