Simultaneous versus sequential public good provision and the role of refunds — An experimental study

Autor: Timothy J. Gronberg, Jennifer C. Coats, Brit Grosskopf
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Journal of Public Economics. 93:326-335
ISSN: 0047-2727
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2008.06.002
Popis: We experimentally study contributing behavior to a threshold public good under simultaneous and sequential voluntary contribution mechanisms and investigate how refund policies interact with the mechanism. We find that, for a given refund rule, efficiency is greater under a sequential contribution mechanism than under a simultaneous contribution mechanism. Furthermore, for a given order of contributions, we find that full refund unambiguously achieves higher efficiency in the simultaneous mechanism while this is not the case in the sequential mechanism.
Databáze: OpenAIRE