Voluntary Provision of Public Knowledge Goods: Group-Based Social Preferences and Coalition Formation

Tom Dedeurwaerdere (), Paolo Melindi-Ghidi and Willem Sas ()
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Tom Dedeurwaerdere: Université Catholique de Louvain and Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS), Biogov Unit, http://biogov.uclouvain.be/staff/dedeurwaerdere/tom.html

No 1545, AMSE Working Papers from Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France

Abstract: In this paper we develop a private-collective model of voluntary public knowledge production, where group-based social preferences have an impact on coalition formation. Our theoretical model builds on the large empirical literature on voluntary production of pooled public knowledge goods, including source code in communities of software developers or data provided to open access data repositories. Our analysis shows under which conditions social preferences such as 'group belonging' or 'peer approval' influence stable coalition size, as such rationalising several stylized facts emerging from large scale surveys of Free/Libre/Open-Source software developers (David and Shapiro, 2008), previously unaccounted for. Furthermore, heterogeneity of social preferences is added to the model to study the formation of stable, but mixed coalitions.

Keywords: public knowledge goods; coalition formation; private-collective model; group belonging; peer approval; open source software (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C70 D71 H40 L17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2015-11-03, Revised 2015-11-03
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Working Paper: Voluntary provision of public knowledge goods: group-based social preferences and coalition formation (2015)
Working Paper: Voluntary Provision of Public Knowledge Goods: Group-Based Social Preferences and Coalition Formation (2015)
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