Step return versus net reward in the voluntary provision of a threshold public good: An adversarial collaboration

Public Choice

Volumn 135, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 277-289

  Cadsby, Charles Bram ^a   Croson, Rachel ^b   Marks, Melanie ^c   Maynes, Elizabeth ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adversarial collaboration; Experiment; Net reward; Step return; Threshold public good

Indexed keywords

EID: 42449093313     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-007-9260-z     Document Type: Article

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