Why pay for nothing? An experiment on a conditional subsidy scheme in a threshold public good game

Economics Bulletin

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1976-1989

  Coent, Philippe Le ^a   Préget, Raphaële ^b   Thoyer, Sophie ^a  

^a Lameta and University of Montpellier 1   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

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