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Mandatory Minimum Contributions, Heterogenous Endowments and Voluntary Public-Good Provision

Keser, Claudia - 2014

In a public-good experiment with heterogeneous endowments, we investigate if and how the contribution level as well as the previously observed "fair-share" rule of equal contributions relative to one's endowment (Hofmeyr et al., 2007; Keser et al., 2014) may be influenced by minimum-contribution...

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Social Costs of Inequality – Heterogeneous Endowments in Public-Good Experiments

Keser, Claudia - 2014

We compare voluntary contributions to the financing of a public good in a symmetric setting to those in asymmetric settings, in which four players have different, randomly allocated endowments. We observe that a weak asymmetry in the endowment distribution leads to the same contribution level as...

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Information Regime Changes and Path Dependence - An Experimental Analysis of Public Goods Contributions in Heterogeneous Groups

Fellner-Röhling, Gerlinde; Kröger, Sabine; Seki, Erika - 2021

We experimentally investigate the path dependence of voluntary contributions in a public good game with heterogeneous agents who vary in their ability to increase the public good. More specifically, we analyze whether contribution norms observed in a first phase of the experiment under a...

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Provision of a Public Good with Altruistic Overlapping Generations and Many Tribes

Karp, Larry S. - 2013

I compare the relative importance of inter-generational altruism and contemporaneous cooperation, in determining equilibrium climate policy, by imbedding an OLG framework with inter-generational altruism into a differential game between nations. The model uses new representations for the...

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Provision of a Public Good with Altruistic Overlapping Generations and Many Tribes

Karp, Larry S. - 2021

Intergenerational altruism and contemporaneous cooperation are both important to the provision of long-lived public goods. Equilibrium climate protection may depend more sensitively on either of these considerations, depending on the type of policy rule one examines. This conclusion is based on...

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Equity as a Prerequisite for Stable Cooperation in a Public-Good Economy - The Core Revisited

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Peters, Wolfgang - 2021

In this paper we explore the relationship between an equitable distribution of the cost shares in public-good provision on the one hand and the core property of an allocation on the other. In particular we show that it is an inhomogeneous distribution of cost shares that motivates some coalition...

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Cooperation, discounting, and the effects of delayed costs and benefits

Kölle, Felix; Lauer, Thomas - 2018

Numerous studies have investigated how people resolve intertemporal trade-offs in individual decision making, but little is known about how the timing of costs and benefits affects behavior in strategic decision situations. Here, we experimentally study how delayed costs and/or benefits affect...

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Die Sachs-Easterly-Kontroverse : "Dissent on Development" revisited

Hielscher, Stefan - 2008

Der entwicklungsökonomische Diskurs ist aktuell geprägt durch eine kontroverse Debatte zwischen Jeffrey Sachs und William Easterly. Der Beitrag rekonstruiert beide Ansätze aus ordonomischer Perspektive. Er argumentiert, dass eine auf Kooperation angelegte Semantik vergleichsweise besser...

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Public Good Provision, Punishment, and the Endowment Origin : Experimental Evidence

Antinyan, Armenak; Corazzini, Luca; Neururer, Daniel - 2016

This paper studies contributions and punishments in a linear public good game, where group members have different sources of endowment. We compare the behavior of homogeneous groups, in which subjects are exogenously assigned the same endowments, with that of heterogeneous groups, in which half...

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Welfare Optimal Distribution of Olympic Success Considered as a Public Good

Groot, Loek F. M. - 2007

welfare optimal distributions of Olympic success. Firstly, it is argued that, at the national level, Olympic success (measured … latter two, the rules for the welfare optimal distributions are stated, viz. equality of the marginal contributions to … welfare and the Samuelson condition. By way of conclusion, this paper proposes a device to make the distribution of Olympic …

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