Arbeitspapier
On the performance of rule-based contribution schemes under endowment heterogeneity
We experimentally test different rule-based contribution mechanisms in a repeated 4-player public goods game with endowment heterogeneity and compare them to a VCM, distinguishing between a random- and an effort-based allocation of endowments. We find that endowment heterogeneities limit the efficiency gains from minimum contribution rules under random allocation. Under effort-based allocations, substantial efficiency gains relative to a VCM occur, though being largely driven by significant reductions of contributions in VCM. By apparently influencing the perception of fair burden sharing, the endowment allocation procedure crucially impacts voluntary contributions under VCM, while the rule-based mechanisms generate stable efficiency levels, even though endowment heterogeneity substantially limits the ability of rule-based mechanisms to achieve the potential efficiency gains.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 14-055
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Noncooperative Games
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Group Behavior
Public Goods
- Thema
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public good
institutions
minimum contribution rules
cooperation
endowment heterogeneity
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Kesternich, Martin
Lange, Andreas
Sturm, Bodo
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
- (wo)
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Mannheim
- (wann)
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2014
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-370330
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Kesternich, Martin
- Lange, Andreas
- Sturm, Bodo
- Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
Entstanden
- 2014