referrals. Each buyer's type consists of a valuation and referable buyers. Unlike the second-price auction (SPA), the Vickrey …

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 contrast to the VCMs, households competed for a prize in the all-pay auction …

projects have demonstrated that the mechanism is efficiency enhancing. Our experiment tests whether the mechanism remains …

pool resource (CPR) experiments. The evidence indicates that in standard CPR games without communication and without … sanctioning possibilities inefficient excess appropriation is the rule. However, when communication or informal sanctions are …

commonly known. We investigate an auction mechanism where the auctioneer provides the good to the group with the highest sum of …

which contain free-riders in a public goods experiment. It focuses on two channels over which face-to-face communication …This paper illustrates how audio-visual data from pre-play face-to-face communication can be used to identify groups … influences contributions to a public good. Firstly, the contents of the face-to-face communication are investigated by …

, we only find a small and temporary effect of identification, irrespective of the type of communication. The reason for …