“One man’s meat is another man’s poison.” An experimental study of voluntarily providing public projects that raise mixed feelings.

Abgebildete Person

Güth, Werner

Koukoumelis, Anastasios

Levati, M. Vittoria

Erschienen

Fr, 29. Jul. 2011

Nummer des Discussion-Papers

2011-034

Schlagwort(e)

Bidding behavior

Procedural fairness

Public project

Zusammenfsg.

We compare, on the basis of a procedurally fair "provision point" mechanism, bids for a public project from which some gain and some lose with bids for a less eﬃcient public project from which all gain. In the main treatment, participants independently decide which one, if any, of the public projects should be implemented. We also run control treatments where only one of the two projects can be implemented. We ﬁnd that (a) mixed feelings per se do not aﬀect bidding behavior, and (b) the provision frequency of the project that raises mixed feelings declines signiﬁcantly when it faces competition from the public good.

article pub. typess JER

Research article

article languages JER

Englisch

JEL-Classification for JER

C72 - Noncooperative Games ; C92 - Laboratory, Group Behavior ; D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; H44 - Publicly Provided Goods: Mixed Markets