Pure Redistribution and the Provision of Public Goods
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Pure Redistribution and the Provision of Public Goods. / Sausgruber, Rupert; Tyran, Jean-Robert.
Cph. : Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, 2006.Publikation: Working paper › Forskning
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T1 - Pure Redistribution and the Provision of Public Goods
AU - Sausgruber, Rupert
AU - Tyran, Jean-Robert
N1 - JEL Classification: C9, H41
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - We study pure redistribution as a device to increase cooperation and efficiency in the provision of public goods. Experimental subjects play a two-stage game. The first stage is the standard linear public goods game. In the second stage, subjects can redistribute payoffs among other subjects in their group. We find that cooperation and efficiency increases substantially with this redistribution scheme, and that the redistribution option is popular. Our results provide an intuitive explanation for why an imposed redistribution rule, as proposed by Falkinger (1996), is capable of sustaining cooperation in the provision of public goods
AB - We study pure redistribution as a device to increase cooperation and efficiency in the provision of public goods. Experimental subjects play a two-stage game. The first stage is the standard linear public goods game. In the second stage, subjects can redistribute payoffs among other subjects in their group. We find that cooperation and efficiency increases substantially with this redistribution scheme, and that the redistribution option is popular. Our results provide an intuitive explanation for why an imposed redistribution rule, as proposed by Falkinger (1996), is capable of sustaining cooperation in the provision of public goods
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - experiment
KW - public goods
KW - redistribution
M3 - Working paper
BT - Pure Redistribution and the Provision of Public Goods
PB - Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen
CY - Cph.
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