Previous research on public-good games revealed greater contributions by fast decision-makers than by slow decision … static. Varying the location of the equilibrium in public-good games with a unique dominant strategy, we show that the …

Concern about potential free riding in the provision of public goods has a long history. More recently, experimental … address the second stage. That is, one would expect households with high demands for public goods relative to private goods to … the public good and leisure is valuable. Existing experiments start with a given number of "tokens" for each decision …

We report on an experiment that tests for the effects of democratic versus hierarchical rules for joint decision making … effect on public goods contributions, we find that there is no difference between the decisions made under democracy and …

experiment exploring how these findings transfer to a non-cooperative setting. We find two major results: (i) promoting intuition …

, whereas too low spending persists in others.We study a model in which delegates from jurisdictions bargain over local public … goods provision.If all of the costs of public goods are shared through a common budget, policy makersdelegate bargaining to … ‘public good lovers’, resulting in overprovision of public goods. If asufficiently large part of the costs can not be shared …