Experimental Social Planners: Good Natured, but Overly Optimistic
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Public Good; Social Planner; Truthtelling; Experiment;JEL classification:
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- D02 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
- D03 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
- D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
- D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities
- D64 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
- H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
- K12 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - Contract Law
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2017-12-03 (Cognitive & Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2017-12-03 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-LAW-2017-12-03 (Law & Economics)
- NEP-PPM-2017-12-03 (Project, Program & Portfolio Management)
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