Individual strategies and aggregate behavior in a public-goods experiment

Abstract

Our aim is to see whether the general result of a decreasing over contribution over time in a public goods game is still available at the group and at the individual levels. We find that individuals are heterogeneous and that they interact differently.

Acknowledgments

I am indebted to Alan Kirman, Sylvie Thoron, Marc Willinger and Marie-Claire Villeval for their comments. I also thank Jordi Brandts and Antoni Bosh for making the LeeX available for me.