Public good provision in inter-team conflicts: Effects of asymmetry and profit-sharing rule

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 421-438

  Kugler, Tamar ^a   Rapoport, Amnon ^a   Pazy, Asya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Game theory; Public goods; Reward systems; Social dilemmas; ter team competition

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649495299     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: 10990771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.667     Document Type: Article

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