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Optimal Altruism in Public Good Provision
Hahn, Robert; Ritz, Robert - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2014
tension between altruism and "crowding-out" effects (players' efforts are strategic substitutes). We find that more altruistic …
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Incentives and group identity
Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - In: Games and Economic Behavior 86 (2014) C, pp. 12-25
This paper investigates in a principal–agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...
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An Experimental Test of the Public Goods Crowing Out Hypothesis when Taxation Is Endogenous
Sutter, Matthias; Weck-Hannemann, Hannelore - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 60 (2004) 1, pp. 94-94
Andreoni (1993) has shown in an experimental study that crowding out is incomplete when an involuntary lump-sum tax is levied exogenously on individuals to finance the provision of a public good. In this paper, we (i) replicate Andreoni's experimental conditions, and (ii) introduce treatments...
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Experimental Economics and Other-Regarding Preferences: Public Goods Experiments
Croson, Rachel - Econometric Society - 2004
This talk will describe a stream of research in experimental economics focusing on the illumination and demonstration of other-regarding preferences (ORPs). Evidence will come primarily from public goods experiments, but also bargaining games (ultimatum, dictator, trust, ...
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Institutions, Motivations and Public Goods: Theory, Evidence and Implications for Environmental Policy
Reeson, Andrew F - Ecosystems Sciences Division, Commonwealth Scientific … - 2008
In economic terms, the environment is largely a public good. Contributing to a public good is costly to an individual, while the benefits are enjoyed by all. Despite this, many people voluntarily contribute to public goods, both in laboratory economic experiments and through day-to-day...
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On the Crowding-Out Effects of Tax-Financed Charitable Contributions by the Government
Krause, Alan - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2011
An important question in the literature on charitable contributions is the extent to which tax-financed contributions by the government crowd out private contributions. This paper examines a simple model of charitable contributions in which there exist both warm-glow and public good motives for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008783906
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Heart of Darnkess: Public-Private Interactions Inside the R and D Black Box
David, Paul; Hall, Bronwyn - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1999
This paper is a first step toward closing the analytical gap in the extensive literature on the results of interactions between public and private R&D expenditures, and their joint effects on the economy. A survey focusing on econometric studies in this area reveals a plethora of sometimes...
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Social Norms and Private Provision of Public Goods: Endogenous Peer Groups
Rege, Mari - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 1999
The formation of peer groups with social norms for private contributions to a public good is analyzed in an n-player two stage game. First people choose a peer group, then they choose whether to contribute. The first choice is made through a learning process represented by evolutionary dynamics,...
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Heart of Darkness: Modeling Public-Private Funding Interactions Inside the R&D Black Box
David, Paul A.; Hall, Bronwyn H. - Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER), … - 2000
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Do Taxes Crowd Out Intrinsic Motivation? Field-Experimental Evidence from Germany
Boyer, Pierre C.; Dwenger, Nadja; Rincke, Johannes - Max-Planck-Institut für Steuerrecht und öffentliche … - 2014
This paper studies how imposing norms on contribution behavior affects individuals' intrinsic motivation. We consider … fact that the levy is legally a tax. In cooperation with the church, we design a natural randomized field experiment with … baseline contribution behavior to measure individuals' intrinsic motivation and demonstrate that treatment effects differ …
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