Are people conditionally cooperative? Evidence from a public goods experiment

Economics Letters

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 397-404

  Fischbacher, Urs ^a   Gächter, Simon ^b   Fehr, Ernst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

C91; Conditional cooperation; Experiments; Free riding; H41; Strategy method; Voluntary contributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035592361     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(01)00394-9     Document Type: Article

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