Voluntary contributions with imperfect information: An experimental study

Public Choice

Volumn 138, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 199-216

  Levati, M Vittoria ^a,b   Morone, Andrea ^b   Fiore, Annamaria ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Imperfect information; Public goods experiments; Risk; Second price auctions

Indexed keywords

EID: 57249115926     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-008-9346-2     Document Type: Article

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