Cooperation and noise in public goods experiments: Applying the contribution function approach

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 399-427

  Brandts, Jordi ^a   Schram, Arthur ^b  

^a Barcelona)   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

C90; C91; Cooperation; D63; Experimental economics; Public goods games

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000256948     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(99)00120-6     Document Type: Article

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