Where are you from? Cultural differences in public good experiments

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2319-2329

  Finocchiaro Castro, Massimo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cultural differences; Experiments; Public goods; Real time interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 53349119366     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

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