An application of the english clock market mechanism to public goods games

Experimental Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 153-169

  Levati, M Vittoria ^a   Neugebauer, Tibor ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN HISTORY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conditional cooperation; Real time public goods; Voluntary contributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 3843077527     PISSN: 13864157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:EXEC.0000026977.32722.f1     Document Type: Article

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