Not It: Opting out of Voluntary Coalitions that Provide a Public Good
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- David McEvoy, 2010. "Not it: opting out of voluntary coalitions that provide a public good," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 142(1), pages 9-23, January.
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Keywords
voluntary coalitions; voluntary agreements; public goods experiments; free riding;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
- C92 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Group Behavior
- C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
- Q50 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2009-05-30 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2009-05-30 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-GTH-2009-05-30 (Game Theory)
- NEP-PBE-2009-05-30 (Public Economics)
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