Voluntary revelation of the demand for public goods using a provision point mechanism

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 455-470

  Rondeau, Daniel ^a   Schulze, William D ^a   Poe, Gregory L ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Experiments; Group size; Information; Provision point; Public goods; Voluntary contributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033147509     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(98)00104-2     Document Type: Article

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