Not efficient but payoff dominant: Experimental investigations of equilibrium play in binary threshold public good games
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Keywords
Binary Threshold Public Goods; framing; equilibrium selection; payoff dominance; risk dominance; efficiency; experiment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2016-03-23 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2016-03-23 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-GTH-2016-03-23 (Game Theory)
- NEP-HPE-2016-03-23 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
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