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

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Equilibrium Play and Learning in a Stochastic Public Goods Experiment

Banerjee, Priyodorshi - 2012

The public goods problem or the “tragedy of the commons,” (Hardin, 1968) either viewed as a problem of extraction or that of contribution has had a rich history in Economics and indeed in other social sciences like Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science. Our research examines free...

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Patent Auctions and Bidding Coalitions : Structuring the Sale of Club Goods

Asker, John; Baccara, Mariagiovanna; Lee, SangMok - 2021

. This affects the way coalitional bidding impacts auction performance. We study the implications of coalitions of bidders on …, we show that stable coalition profiles tend to consist of excessively large coalitions, to the detriment of both auction …

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Variations on a Theme : The Double-Oral Auction Market and Voluntary Contribution Mechanism Experiments

Netusil, Noelwah R. - 2010

The double-oral auction and voluntary contribution mechanism experiments are the two most commonly used classroom …

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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...

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Voluntary contributions with risky and uncertain marginal returns : the importance of the minimal value

Levati, M. Vittoria; Morone, Andrea - 2009

Previous research indicates that risky and uncertain marginal returns from the public good significantly lower contributions. This paper presents experimental results illustrating that the effects of risk and uncertainty depend on the employed parameterization. Specifically, if the value of the...