Contribution games and the end-game effect: When things get real - An experimental analysis

We conduct a contribution game for a real public good and show that when the contributors value the real public good highly, they increase their contributions in each round. Thus, contrary to previous literature, free riding decreases over rounds and the end-game effect is reversed.

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Bar-El, Ronen ; Tobol, Yossi
Publisher:	Bonn : Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Subject:	public goods experiment \| end-game effect \| free-riding

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Series:	IZA Discussion Papers ; 7307
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	741305267 [GVK] hdl:10419/71611 [Handle]
Classification:	C72 - Noncooperative Games ; C92 - Laboratory; Group Behavior ; H41 - Public Goods
Source:	EconStor

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