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ToolsPatel, Amrish and Smith, Alec (2019) Guilt and participation. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 167. pp. 279-295. ISSN 0167-2681
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Abstract
How does guilt affect participation in providing public goods? We characterise and analyse completely mixed symmetric equilibria (CMSE) in participation games where players are guilt averse. We find that relative to material preferences, guilt aversion can: facilitate the existence of CMSE; increase or decrease participation; and imply that group size has a non-monotonic effect on participation. Using our equilibrium characterisation we also re-analyse experimental data on participation games and find a low, but positive, guilt sensitivity parameter.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | participation,threshold public good,volunteer's dilemma,psychological games,guilt aversion |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics |
| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Jun 2018 16:30 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Oct 2022 19:31 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/67332 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jebo.2018.06.009 |
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