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Voluntary Public Goods Provision, Coalition Formation, and Uncertainty

Burger, Nicholas E. - 2009

The literature on voluntary provision of public goods includes recent theoretical work on the formation of voluntary coalitions to provide public goods. Theory is ambiguous on the equilibrium coalition size and contribution rates. We examine the emergence of coalitions, their size, and how...

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To Give or Not to Give : The Price of Contributing and the Provision of Public Goods

Diederich, Johannes - 2013

We examine the relationship between the price of giving and the decision to contribute in a framed field experiment (n …

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Overcoming the common pool problem through voluntary cooperation : the rise and fall of a fishery cooperative

Deacon, Robert T. - 2010

We analyze a seldom used, but highly promising form of rights-based management over common pool resources that involves the self-selection of heterogeneous fishermen into sectors. The fishery management regime assigns one portion of an overall catch quota to a voluntary cooperative, with the...

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Trust in Large Organizations

Porta, Rafael La - 1996

Several authors suggest that trust is an important determinant of cooperation between strangers in a society, and … cooperation trust hold up remarkably well on a cross-section of countries …

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Collective Choice in Dynamic Public Good Provision

Bowen, T. Renee - 2016

Two heterogeneous agents contribute over time to a joint project, and collectively decide its scope. A larger scope requires greater cumulative effort and delivers higher benefits upon completion. We show that the efficient agent prefers a smaller scope, and preferences are time-inconsistent: as...

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Starting Small : Endogenous Stakes and Rational Cooperation

Andreoni, James - 2016

types can be exploited to enhance cooperation by structuring the twice-played prisoners' dilemma to "start small," so that …

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Collective Choice and Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

Epple, Dennis - 2000

Some public goods are provided entirely with private contributions, others with a mixture of public and private funding, and still others are entirely publicly funded. To explain this variation, a model of dual provision is developed that endogenizes public and private funding. Members of the...

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On the Formation of Coalitions to Provide Public Goods - Experimental Evidence from the Lab

Dannenberg, Astrid - 2010

The provision of public goods often relies on voluntary contributions and cooperation. While most of the experimental … coalitions in different institutions and compares those to a voluntary contribution mechanism. The experiment confirms the rather … smallest common denominator being binding. The experiment thereby shows that the acceptance of institutions depends on how …

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An Economic Approach to Alleviate the Crises of Confidence in Science : With an Application to the Public Goods Game

Butera, Luigi - 2017

begin by reporting results from an experiment in which we investigate how cooperation in allocation games is affected by the … that adding uncertainty enhances cooperation. This surprising result serves as a test case for our mechanism: instead of …

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The Political Economy of Public Debt : A Laboratory Study

Battaglini, Marco - 2016

This paper reports the results from a laboratory experiment designed to study political distortions in the accumulation …

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