Public good provision and public bad prevention: The effect of framing

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 143-161

  Sonnemans, Joep ^a   Schram, Arthur ^a   Offerman, Theo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

C79; C91; Equilibrium selection; Experiment; H41; Public good bad

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000807078     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2681(97)00042-5     Document Type: Article

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