We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than …

. Experimental evidence on voluntary public good provision shows that the option to punish others substantially improves cooperation … sanctions can be optimal. -- Experimental Law & Economics ; Public Goods ; Enforcement under Uncertainty …

. Experimental evidence on voluntary public good provision shows that the option to punish others substantially improves cooperation …

threshold uncertainty. -- Public good ; threshold uncertainty ; ambiguity ; experiment …We explored experimentally how threshold uncertainty affects coordination success in a threshold public goods game …. Whereas all groups succeeded in providing the public good when the exact value of the threshold was known, uncertainty was …

experimentally the emergence and informal enforcement of different contribution norms to a public good in homogeneous and different …

experimentally the emergence and informal enforcement of different contribution norms to a public good in homogeneous and different …

We investigate the emergence and enforcement of contribution norms to public goods in homogeneous and heterogeneous … contribution rules related to efficiency, equality, and equity. In the experiment, in the absence of punishment no contribution … emergence of an absolute efficiency norm where all fully contribute. In the cases where full efficiency is not attained, these …

self-interested agents. Players sequentially decide whether to contribute to a public good. They do not know their position …, they have an incentive to contribute in order to induce potential successors to also do so. Full contribution can then …

I examine how uncertainty in the size of the relevant population affects the voluntary contribution of public goods. I … analyze a case where the marginal production of public goods is decreasing and convex, and agents' social preferences, if any … controlled experiment is consistent with this theoretical prediction. I also analyze another case where the marginal production …