Team competition and the public goods game

Economics Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 133-139

  Tan, Jonathan H W ^a   Bolle, Friedel ^a  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY VIADRINA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comparison; Competition; Cooperation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249750042     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2006.12.031     Document Type: Article

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