Do people contribute more to intra-temporal or inter-temporal public goods?

Gilles Grolleau (), Angela Sutan and Radu Vranceanu

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Abstract: We introduce a dynamic public goods game, where an individual's investment in the public good at a given round provides benefits to other individuals in the next round, and the individual himself benefits from investments in the public good made by his current group members in the previous round. Subjects turn out to be more generous in this inter-temporal context, than in a standard public goods experiment where contributions and transfers are exchanged at the same period. Furthermore, when known, benefits from the past investment are positively related to the individual's current investment in the public good.

Keywords: dynamic public goods; inter-temporal transfers; voluntary contribution mechanism; contribution vs. investment; public goods; dynamic game; laboratory experimentation; profit; altruism; expérimentation en laboratoire; bénéfice; altruisme; bien public; rentabilité des investissements; contribution volontaire; jeu dynamique (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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Published in Research in Economics, 2016, 70 (1), pp.186-195. ⟨10.1016/j.rie.2015.05.001⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.rie.2015.05.001

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