study the impact of non-deterrent formal sanctions on voluntary contributions to a public good in a laboratory experiment …

public good. Strategies of players consist of voluntary contributions of the private good to public good production. Without … same total public good provision. The assumption of one-private good greatly facilities the results. We provide analogues … of the Bergstrom, Blume and Varian results in a model allowing multiple private and public goods. In addition, we relate …

Considerable experimental evidence shows that although costly peer-punishment enhances cooperation in repeated public …

games designed to model common-pools in which there existed such a threshold: one with complete information of the threshold …, one with incomplete information of the threshold and one with sporadically enforced targets. By design the true threshold … was unknown to the players in the role of policymaker, and the guesses of the threshold value were allowed to change …

Ethnic diversity and provision of public goods have long been understood to share a negative relationship. While there … possible differences in these measures when it comes to using them to explain their impact on provision of public goods …. Defining public goods using a single aggregate measure or using only one variable as proxy is a vague concept. It is also …

In this paper we empirically examine whether public facilities like providing primary school, medical clinics … public goods provided by the incumbent and then decides whether to re-elect the incumbent. We find empirical evidence that …

in dissent games. In our experiment, inexperienced subjects contribute high in consent games and low in dissent games …, but behavior converges toward equilibrium predictions over time and eventually experienced subjects contribute as …

options and local governance forms: private/rental, public/rental, private/owner and public/owner. The two-period model …) public/owner, i.e., the common form of government providing collective goods, may be efficient for more uniform distribution …” community may adopt more restrictive measures. These results may help explain why public institutions are dominant in urban …

setup to identify voluntary contributions to local public goods. The experiment enables individuals to contribute to a … exceeds a certain threshold value. In contrast to expectations of aid distributors, individuals contributed a substantial … have had a detrimental effect on investment in a poorer subsample. Results from a complementary experiment, which …