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Voluntary contributions to the establishment and operation of public goods : theory and experimental evidence

Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El, Ronen; Schwarz, Mordechai E.; … - 2014

We study the dynamics of the private provision of a public good that requires both capacity buildup and ongoing operating costs. We show that setting a time limit for the collection of contributions dedicated to capacity buildup minimizes the utility loss at the Nash equilibrium. We test the...

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Entry or exit? : the effect of voluntary participation on cooperation

Nosenzo, Daniele; Tufano, Fabio - 2015

examine the relative effectiveness of these two mechanisms in a one-shot, two-person public goods game experiment. We find …

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To what do people contribute? : ongoing operations vs. sustainable supplies

Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El, Ronen; Schwarz, Mordechai E.; … - 2019

Attempts to curb illegal activity through regulation gets complicated when agents can adapt to circumvent enforcement. Economic theory suggests that conducting audits on a predictable schedule, and (counter-intuitively) at high frequency, can undermine the effectiveness of audits. We conduct a...

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Rank-order competition in the voluntary provision of impure public goods

Angelovski, Andrej; Neugebauer, Tibor; Servátka, Maroš - 2019

receive restricted access (a lower share). In a laboratory experiment Rank-Order-VCM elicits median contributions equal to the …

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Free riding in the lab and in the field

Englmaier, Florian; Gebhardt, Georg - 2010

We run a public good experiment in the field and in the lab with (partly) the same subjects. The field experiment is a … true natural field experiment as subjects do not know that they are exposed to an experimental variation. We can show that … subjects' behavior in the classic lab public good experiment correlates with their behavior in the structurally comparable …

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The effect of signalling and beliefs on the voluntary provision of public goods

Berlemann, Michael - 2003

guess the degree of overall cooperation. We also find that the possibility to make announcements during the experiment …

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The economics of altruistic punishment and the demise of cooperation

Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2005

Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...

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The role of rivalry : public goods versus common-pool resources

Maier-Rigaud, Frank P.; Apesteguia, Jose - 2004

Despite a large theoretical and empirical literature on public goods and common-pool resources, a systematic comparison of these two types of social dilemmas is lacking. In fact, there is considerable confusion about these two types of dilemma situations. As a result, they are often treated...

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Behavioural responses to unfair institutions : experimental evidence on rule compliance, norm polarisation, and trust

Columbus, Simon; Feld, Lars P.; Kasper, Matthias; … - 2023

and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014321962

A real effort vs. standard public goods experiment : overall more all-or-nothing, lower average contributions and men become more selfish in the effort-loss frame

Schütze, Tobias; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2023

experiment (N=181) comparing an effort based public goods game (both in gain/loss frame) to a standard (gain/loss) public goods …

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