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A community faces the obligation of providing an indivisible public good. Each member is capable of providing it at a certain cost and the solution is to rely on the player who can do it at the lowest cost. It is then natural that he or she be compensated by the other players. The question is to...
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We designed an experiment on voluntary contribution to a public good with interior solution. The treatment variable is …
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others as a source of positive externality rather than a source of negative externality. In our experiment partial …
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subjects’ choices generate a negative externality, while in the public good experiment, the actions of the other subjects … create a positive externality. In this paper we designed an experiment which allows us to compare the level of … overcontribution of the two contexts. Our experiment shows that subjects in the positive context contribute (significantly) more to the …
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Most organ transplants are from dead donors. National transplant organizations exhibit considerable differences in terms of their donor population rates. Spain’s organization is by far the most efficient in this respect. We argue that much of the productivity advantage of Spain’s transplant...
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