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Privately contributing to public goods over time: An experimental study
Güth, Werner; Levati, Maria Vittoria; Stiehler, Andreas - 2002
Similar to Levati and Neugebauer (2001), a clock is used by which participants can vary their individual contributions for voluntarily providing a public good. As time goes by, participants either in(de)crease their contribution gradually or keep it constant. Groups of two poorly and two richly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010310565
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Privately contributing to public goods over time : an experimental study
Güth, Werner; Levati, Maria Vittoria; Stiehler, Andreas - 2002
Similar to Levati and Neugebauer (2001), a clock is used by which participants can vary their individual contributions for voluntarily providing a public good. As time goes by, participants either in(de)crease their contribution gradually or keep it constant. Groups of two poorly and two richly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009620765
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Privately Contributing to Public Goods over Time - An Experimental Study -
Güth, Werner; Levati, Maria Vittoria; Stiehler, Andreas - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Similar to Levati and Neugebauer (2001), a clock is used by which participants can vary their individual contributions for voluntarily providing a public good. As time goes by, participants either in(de)crease their contribution gradually or keep it constant. Groups of two poorly and two richly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005252197
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Privately contributing to public goods over time: An experimental study
Güth, Werner; Levati, Maria Vittoria; Stiehler, Andreas - Sonderforschungsbereich 373, Quantifikation und … - 2002
Similar to Levati and Neugebauer (2001), a clock is used by which participants can vary their individual contributions for voluntarily providing a public good. As time goes by, participants either in(de)crease their contribution gradually or keep it constant. Groups of two poorly and two richly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010983833
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Bidding to give in the field : door-to-door fundraisers had it right from the start
Onderstal, Sander; Schram, Arthur J. C.; Soetevent, … - 2011
In a door-to-door fundraising field experiment, we study the impact of fundraising mechanisms on charitable giving. We approached about 4500 households, each participating in either an all-pay auction, a lottery, a non-anonymous voluntary contribution mechanism (VCM), or an anonymous VCM. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386444
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Patent Auctions and Bidding Coalitions : Structuring the Sale of Club Goods
Asker, John; Baccara, Mariagiovanna; Lee, SangMok - 2021
Auctioneers of patents are observed to allow joint bidding by coalitions of buyers. These auctions are distinguished … second-price (or equivalently, ascending-price) auctions. Although the formation of coalitions per se can benefit the seller … the seller. Lastly, we compare patent auctions to multi-license auctions, and we find that the latter are superior in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249971
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Informational smallness and the scope for limiting information rents
Gizatulina, Alia; Hellwig, Martin - 2009
For an incomplete-information model of public-good provision with interim participation constraints, we show that efficient outcomes can be approximated, with approximately full surplus extraction, when there are many agents and each agent is informationally small. The result holds even if...
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Optimal allocation without transfer payments
Chakravarty, Surajeet; Kaplan, Todd R. - 2010
Often an organization or government must allocate goods without collecting payment in return. This may pose a difficult problem either when agents receiving those goods have private information in regards to their values or needs or when discriminating among agents using known differences is not...
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Volunteering and the strategic value of ignorance
Morath, Florian - 2011
Private provision of public goods often takes place as a war of attrition: individuals wait until someone else volunteers and provides the good. After a certain time period, however, one individual may be randomly selected. If the individuals are uncertain about their cost of provision, but can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011776
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Volunteering and the strategic value of ignorance
Morath, Florian - 2010
Private provision of public goods often takes place as a war of attrition: individuals wait until someone else volunteers and provides the good. After a certain time period, however, one individual may be randomly selected. If the individuals are uncertain about their cost of provision, but can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009409122