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Dobrovolné přispívání na veřejný statek: Jsou čeští studenti jiní?

Title in English Voluntary Contribution Mechanism for Public Good: Are Czech Students Different?
Authors

ŠPALEK Jiří

Year of publication 2009
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Bílá místa teorie a černé díry reforem ve veřejném sektoru
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Economics and Administration

Citation
Field Economy
Keywords public goods; experimental economics
Description The paper summarizes results of economic experiment, which used cohort of students of Masaryk University. We used Public good experiment and voluntary contribution mechanism with modification using Threshold or Provision Point mechanism. Results of our experiment are as follows: (i) Czech students act the same way as foreign participants of similar experiments; (ii) There is no significant difference between behavior of economists and non-economists and (iii) Salient payments mater for behavior of participants.

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