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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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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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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 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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