Contribution Games and the End-Game Effect: When Things Get Real – An Experimental Analysis

Ronen Bar-El () and Yossef (Yossi) Tobol ()
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Ronen Bar-El: Open University of Israel

No 7307, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We conduct a contribution game for a real public good and show that when the contributors value the real public good highly, they increase their contributions in each round. Thus, contrary to previous literature, free riding decreases over rounds and the end-game effect is reversed.

Keywords: end-game effect; public goods experiment; free-riding (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C92 H41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10 pages
Date: 2013-03
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Forthcoming - published as 'Fundraising to a real-life public good – evidence from the laboratory' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2016, 65, 27-37 (with Yuval Arbel)

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