Conditional cooperation on three continents

Economics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 175-178

  Kocher, Martin G ^a   Cherry, Todd ^b   Kroll, Stephan ^c   Netzer, Robert J ^d   Sutter, Matthias ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Conditional cooperation; Experiment; Public goods

Indexed keywords

EID: 55549100923     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2008.07.015     Document Type: Article

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