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A note on the design of experiments involving public goods
Graves, Philip E. - 2010
Concern about potential free riding in the provision of public goods has a long history. More recently, experimental economists have turned their attention to the conditions under which free riding would be expected to occur. A model of free riding is provided here which demonstrates that...
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Is altruism bad for cooperation?
Hwang, Sung-Ha; Bowles, Samuel - 2008
embodying both reciprocity and altruism we show that unconditional altruism towards other members attenuates the punishment … contributions. Increases in altruism may also reduce the level of benefits from the public project net of contribution costs and … punishment costs. The negative effect of altruism on cooperation and material payoffs is greater the stronger is the reciprocity …
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A competitive equilibrium for a warm glow economy
Allouch, Nizar - 2009
to the normative and positive theory of public goods provision. First, it is a price based mechanism achieving efficient …
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Altruism and charitable giving in a fully replicated economy
Gaube, Thomas - 2005
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Provision of a public good with altruistic overlapping generations and many tribes
Karp, Larry S. - 2012
Intergenerational altruism and contemporaneous cooperation are both important to the provision of long-lived public …
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Competitive Altruism and Endogenous Reference Group Selection in Private Provision of Environmental Public Goods
Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - 2012
(competitive altruism) and in which they endogenously choose the reference group and associated reference standard involved in …
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A core-equilibrium convergence in an economy with public goods
Allouch, Nizar - 2009
This paper deals with a core-equilibrium equivalence in an economy with public goods where preferences of consumers display warm glow effects. We demonstrate that provided that each consumer becomes satiated to other consumers provision, it holds that, for a sufficiently large economy, the set...
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Public- and private-good values of statistical lives: Results from a combined choice-experiment and contongent-valuation survey
Strand, Jon - 2001
We present a stated-preference study where values of statistical lives (VSL) are derived both as public and private goods, and we distinguish between three different death causes, heart disease, environmentally related illnesses and traffic accidents. 1000 randomly chosen individuals in Norway...
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I don't want to hear about it: Rational ignorance among duty-orientd consumers
Nyborg, Karine - 2008
Individuals with a preference for keeping moral obligations may dislike learning that voluntary contributions are socially valuable: Such information can trigger unpleasant feelings of cognitive dissonance. I show that if initial beliefs about the social value of contributions are sufficiently...
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Payment Choice, Image Motivation and Contributions to Charity
Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2009
This paper examines the impact of payment choice on charitablegiving with a door-to-door fund-raising field experiment …
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