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Public goods and voting on formal sanction schemes: An experiment

Putterman, Louis; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Kamei, Kenju - 2010

interest in those parameters, voting patterns suggest significant influence of cooperative orientation, political attitudes …

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Can endogenously chosen institutions mitigate the free-rider problem and reduce perverse punishment?

Ertan, Arhan; Page, Talbot; Putterman, Louis - 2005

Previous experiments on public goods dilemmas have found that the opportunity to punish leads to higher contributions …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318915

The Provision of Public Goods with Positive GroupInterdependencies

Güth, Werner; Sääksvuori, Lauri - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2010

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...

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Leading by Words: A Voluntary Contribution ExperimentWith One-Way Communication

Koukoumelis, Anastasios; Levati, M. Vittoria; Weisser, … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2009

In this paper, we study a voluntary contribution mechanism withone-way communication. The relevance of one person’s words is assessedby assigning exogeniously the role of the ‘communicator’ to onegroup member. Contrary to the view that the mutual exchange ofpromises is necessary for the...

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Correcting mistakes: Cognitive dissonance and political attitudes in Sweden and the United States

Elinder, Mikael - 2009

Cognitive dissonance theory predicts that the act of voting makes people more positive toward the party or candidate … turnout provided by the voting age restriction. I improve on previous studies by investigating political attitudes, measured … just before elections, when they are highly predictive of voting. In contrast to earlier studies I find no effect of voting …

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Ethnic fragmentation and police spending: social identity and a public good

Ajilore, Olugbenga; Smith, John - 2007

We present evidence that more ethnically fragmented communities spend, all else equal, more on police services than less fragmented communities. We introduce a model of spending on police services which we use to interpret the data. In this model, we assume that the decision to commit a crime is...

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A core-equilibrium convergence in an economy with public goods

Allouch, Nizar - 2009

This paper deals with a core-equilibrium equivalence in an economy with public goods where preferences of consumers display warm glow effects. We demonstrate that provided that each consumer becomes satiated to other consumers provision, it holds that, for a sufficiently large economy, the set...

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A competitive equilibrium for a warm glow economy

Allouch, Nizar - 2009

Despite a widespread interest in the warm glow model [Andreoni (1989,1990)], surprisingly most attention focused on the voluntary contribution equilibrium of the model, and only very little attention has been devoted to the competitive equilibrium. In this paper, we introduce the notion of...

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Endogenously excludable goods

Kolmar, Martin - 2001

In this paper we analyze the optimal interplay between the publie and private enforceement of property rights. In doing so we endogenize the distinction between public and club goods on the one and private and common-pool goods on the other hand. The private enforcement of property rights is...

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Voluntary association in public goods experiments: Reciprocity, mimicry, and efficiency

Page, Talbot; Putterman, Louis; Unel, Bulent - 2002

We study the. Incentive effects of endogenous group formation in a voluntary contributon experiment. Subjects are given information on the past contributions of others and allowed to express a preference for partners. On the basis of the stated preferences new groups are formed. We find that the...

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