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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 - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011049787
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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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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011202940
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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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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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