The Provision of Public Goods with Positive GroupInterdependencies

This article examines the nature of human behavior in a nested socialdilemma referred to as the Spillover Game. Players are divided into twogroups with positive production interdependencies. Based on theoreticallyderived opportunistic, local, and global optima, our experimental resultsdemonstrate the importance of in-group beneficiaries over global efficiency.We find that the observed behavior is primarily determined by an imperfectconditional cooperation that prioritizes local level feedback.[...]

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Year of publication:	2010
Authors:	Güth, Werner ; Sääksvuori, Lauri
Institutions:	Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung Strategische Interaktion
Subject:	Experiment \| Experiments \| Öffentliches Gut \| Public Property \| Soziales Dilemma \| Gruppe \| Überschuss \| active trade balance \| boni

1. Introduction
2. Spillover Game
2.1. Experimental implementation
3. Experimental Procedure
4. Results
4.1. The nature of cooperation in the Spillover Game
4.2. The robustness of results
4.3. Determinants of contributions
5. Conclusions
References

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