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:	2013-03
Authors:	Bar-El, Ronen ; Tobol, Yossi
Institutions:	Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Subject:	public goods experiment \| end-game effect \| free-riding

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	IZA Discussion Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number 7307 10 pages
Classification:	C72 - Noncooperative Games ; C92 - Laboratory; Group Behavior ; H41 - Public Goods
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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