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Privately Contributing to Public Goods over Time - An Experimental Study -

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Werner Güth ()
Maria Vittoria Levati ()
Andreas Stiehler ()

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Similar to Levati and Neugebauer (2001), a clock is used by which participants can vary their individual contributions for voluntarily providing a public good. As time goes by, participants either in(de)crease their contribution gradually or keep it constant. Groups of two poorly and two richly endowed participants encounter repeatedly the weakest link-, the usual average contribution- and the best shot-technology of public good provision in a within subject-design. Some striking findings are that the weakest link-technology fares much better than the other two technologies in terms of welfare, and that the willingness of people to voluntarily contribute is greatly a®ected by the (increasing or decreasing) clock mechanism.

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Keywords: Public goods; Voluntary contributions; Efficient provision; Clock mechanism;

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C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
C92 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Group Behavior
H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
D44 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure and Pricing - - - Auctions

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