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This study shows the uniqueness of Nash equilibrium in the model of multiple voluntarily supplied public goods with … of a Nash equilibrium in multiple public goods models. …
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endogenous choices of contribution timing and the level of the voluntary supplied public goods. This paper obtains the following … simultaneous and sequential moves, even if they have different preferences towards a public good. Second, as income inequality … leader. Third, in the presence of multiple public goods, contributors with higher valuations for one public good tend to be …
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Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they … personally contribute to the cause. Simply put, agents feel some "warm glow" from the donations they make. I discuss a fundraiser …
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allow providers of public good services to be subsidized by non-providers. The decision setting is a repeated linear public … good game with two groups, insiders and outsiders. Insiders make contributions to a public good that benefits both insiders … and outsiders. Outsiders, unable to provide the public good, can send transfers to compensate insiders. The institutions …
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Defense spending accounts for a large share of the budget in many countries, but the value of the resulting public good … of defense policy, namely an increase in the security of citizens, by means of a survey-based discrete choice experiment … military service does not enjoy public support. Results further indicate substantial preference heterogeneity across …
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this have been questioned and discussed. This study examines the impact of communication on public good provisioning in an … artefactual field experiment conducted with 216 villagers from small, rural communities in northern Namibia. In line with previous … members about an unrelated topic prior to learning about the public good game. It turns out that this condition already leads …
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We explore in an experiment what leads to the breakdown of partnerships. Subjects are assigned a partner and … participate in a repeated public good game with stochastic outcomes. They can choose each period between staying in the public …
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Public good games in coalitional form, such as the ones depicting international environmental agreements for the … the public good are proportional to the average contribution of the other players abiding to the mechanism: proportional …
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some agents may only contribute to the public good, one (special) agent has the additional option to exploit the existing … public affairs. To systematically explore the impact of transparency and accountability on cooperation, we conduct a series … of laboratory experiments on a variation of the public good game with agents that differ in their action space. While …
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investigates team decisions in different settings. We study team decisions in a public goods contribution game with a costly … punishment option and compare it to the behavior of individuals in a laboratory experiment. We also consider different team … decision-making rules (unanimity, majority). We find that teams contribute significantly more and punish less than individuals …
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