Working Paper Series no. 214: Dynamic voluntary contributions to a discrete public good: Experimental evidence.

Abstract

We experiment a mechanism for the provision of a discrete public good where individuals are allowed to update upwards their contribution during a fixed time interval. Experimental evidence shows that subjects increase their contributions in order to finance the cost of the good. The public good is financed more frequently when its cost is low relative to the social ability to pay.

Pavel Diev and Walid Hichri
July 2008

Classification JEL : C92, H41.

Keywords : Public Goods, Experiments, Voluntary contributions, Dynamic contributions.