Rauchdobler, Julian; Sausgruber, Rupert; Tyran, Jean-Robert - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 2009
Introducing a threshold in the sense of a minimal project size transforms a public goods game with an inefficient … thresholds are ineffective at best and often counter-productive. This holds under a range of threshold levels and refund rates …. We test if thresholds perform better if they are endogenously chosen, i.e. if a threshold is approved in a referendum …