The experimetrics of public goods: Inferring motivations from contributions

Theory and Decision

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 161-193

  Bardsley, Nicholas ^a   Moffatt, Peter G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Altruism; Finite mixture models; Reciprocity; Tobit; Trembles; Voluntary contributions

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ALTRUISM; FINITE MIXTURE MODELS; VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 34250728490     PISSN: 00405833     EISSN: 15737187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11238-006-9013-3     Document Type: Article

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