Altruism and Noisy Behavior in One-Shot Public Goods Experiments
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Keywords
public goods; voluntary contributions; marginal per capita return; internal return; external return; bounded rationality; logit equilibrium; altruism; nonlinear altruism; warm glow altruism; one shot game;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
- C92 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Group Behavior
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2000-02-21 (Collective Decision-Making)
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