Is Adversity a School of Wisdom? Experimental Evidence on Cooperative Protection Against Stochastic Losses
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- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
- C92 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Group Behavior
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