Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: We use a public good game with rewards, played on a dynamic network, to illustrate how \nself-organizing communities can achieve the provision of a public good without a central authority \nor privatization. Given that rewards are given to contributors and that the choice \nof whom to reward depends on social distance, free-riders will be excluded from rewards \nand the (almost efficient) provision of a public good becomes possible. We review the related \nexperimental economics literature and illustrate how the model can be tested in the \nlaboratory.
Author: Matthias Greiff
Institution: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1679754954