On the private provision of public goods
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In this article, the authors consider a general model of non-cooperative provision of a public good and show that there is always a unique Nash equilibrium in the model and characterize the properties and the comparative statics of the equilibrium.About:
This article is published in Journal of Public Economics.The article was published on 1986-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2237 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Public good & Public goods game.read more
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Error-Prone Inference from Response Time: The Case of Intuitive Generosity in Public-Good Games
TL;DR: It is found that individuals who make (or have to make) fast decisions are insensitive to incentives, more often make mistakes, and are less likely to make equilibrium contributions, consistent with fast decisions being more prone to error.
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The virtual commons: why free- riding can be tolerated in file sharing networks
TL;DR: An analytic model is developed that finds that P2P networks can operate effectively in the presence of significant free-riding and how much peerto-peer network performance could be improved if free- riding were eliminated.
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Private provision of a discrete public good with uncertain cost
Shmuel Nitzan,Richard Romano +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make the cost of the discrete public good uncertain at the time the contribution game is played and show that the public good is underprovided in any Nash equilibrium and there is a unique undominated equilibrium.
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Weak Links, Good Shots and Other Public Good Games: Building on BBV
Richard Cornes,Roger Hartley +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an alternative way of analyzing the canonical Bergstrom-Blume-Varian model of non-cooperative voluntary contributions to a public good that avoids the proliferation of dimensions as the number of players is increased is proposed.
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Inequality, cooperation and growth : An experimental study
TL;DR: In this article, a three player dynamic public goods experiment is presented, where players choose to sabotage, to cooperate, or to play best response in each period, and the result is shown to be sensitive to the dynamic nature of the game.
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Economists free ride, does anyone else?: Experiments on the provision of public goods, IV
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The private provision of a public good is independent of the distribution of income
TL;DR: When a single public good is provided at positive levels by private individuals, its provision is unaffected by a redistribution of income as discussed by the authors, regardless of differences in individual preferences and despite differences in marginal propensities to contribute to the public good.