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Semi-flexible majority rules for public good provision
We introduce semi-flexible majority rules for public good provision with private valuations. Such rules take the form of a two-stage, multiple-round...
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Public good bargaining under mandatory and discretionary rules: experimental evidence
We experimentally test a model of public good bargaining due to Bowen et al. (Am Econ Rev 104:2941–2974, 2014) and compare two institutions governing...
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Private provision of public good and endogenous income inequality
We model a simple economy with privately provided public good and with two groups of individuals—rich and poor. Only rich people contribute to the...
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Cost-(in)effective public good provision: an experimental exploration
This paper investigates the determinants of cost-(in)effective giving to public goods. We conduct a pre-registered experiment to elucidate how...
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Public good provision and progressive income taxation in a spatial economy
This paper considers how mobility in an economy with multiple types of workers of varying income levels affects the ability of regional governments...
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Morally monotonic choice in public good games
Rational choice theory, including models of social preferences, is challenged by decades of robust data from public good games. Provision of public...
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Competition among public good providers for donor rewards
We present experimental evidence for decision settings where public good providers compete for endogenous rewards which are donations (transfers)...
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Conditional cooperation and group size: experimental evidence from a public good game
Conditional cooperation is the tendency to cooperate if and only if others do so as well. It is the most common behavior in social dilemmas. We study...
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Resolving ambiguity as a public good: experimental evidence from Guyana
Incomplete information is a commonly cited barrier to the adoption of new innovations. We present a decision-making experiment, conducted with...
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What drives conditional cooperation in public good games?
Extensive experimental research on public good games documents that many subjects are “conditional cooperators” in that they positively correlate...
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The auditing game: the dark side of the private provision of a public good
The aim of auditing is to protect active and potential investors from accounting fraud. Nevertheless, as many auditing scandals have demonstrated,...
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One bad apple spoils the barrel? Public good provision under threshold uncertainty
We report laboratory evidence on the voluntary provision of threshold public goods when the exact location of the threshold is not known. Our...
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Effects of majority-vote reward mechanism on cooperation: a public good experimental study
This paper conducts a laboratory experiment to examine the effectiveness of majority-vote reward mechanism on cooperation, and to compare its effects...
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Am I a good puppet? A review essay of Esca** Paternalism: Rationality, Behavioral Economics, and Public Policy
What would it truly mean to treat individuals “as real people” when designing public policies? This paper addresses this question by critically...
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Reliability of Energy Supply as Semi-Public Good
Gas, electricity, hydrogenHydrogen andPublic good heat marketsSupplyreliability depend on the reliabilityReliability of the physical networks for...
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The basins of attraction in the generalized Baliga–Maskin public good model
We study an evolutionary dynamics for the contributions by agents to a common/public good in a generalized version of Baliga and Maskin’s...
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Public Value, Values, and Public Services
What is a good life? The question has bedevilled philosophers across the ages. For Confucius, the good life is found in relationships and cultivating...
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Interstate Climate Change Mitigation Methods as a Global Public Good
Climate change exerts a significant influence on changing the environmental situation and brings considerable economic consequences. If climate...
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The public provision of goods in democracies: Do age and inequality matter?
We build a multi-dimensional model of political decision-making with endogenous political parties to analyse the effect of inequality and demography...
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Cooperation in public goods experiments with random and finite stop** rules
We contribute to a large literature that explores prosocial behavior in public goods experiments. We adopt an experimental design that allows full...
