Reciprocity, matching and conditional cooperation in two public goods games

Economics Letters

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 95-101

  Croson, Rachel ^a   Fatas, Enrique ^b   Neugebauer, Tibor ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Experimental economics; Public goods; Voluntary contribution mechanism; Weakest link mechanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 14944350312     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2004.10.007     Document Type: Article

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