Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Mengel Friederike 
Author-Name: Peeters Ronald 
Author-workplace-name: METEOR
Title: Strategic behavior in repeated voluntary contribution experiments
Abstract: We conduct a repeated VCM (voluntary contribution mechanism) experiment using thestrategy method. We compare a partner and a stranger design and find that participantsin the partner treatment provide (i) higher initial contributions, (ii) higher contributionson average over all periods, and (iii) contributions that do not vary more strongly withpast contributions than participants in the stranger treatment. We conclude from ourevidence that strategic motives can account for a large share of the treatment differencestypically observed in this literature.
Keywords: public economics ; 
Series: Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 2009
Number: 025
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Handle: RePEc:unm:umamet:2009025