Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/129556 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series No. 14-03
Publisher: 
University of Mannheim, Department of Economics, Mannheim
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes the impact of a group-size change on contributing incentives in repeated provision of pure public goods. We develop a model in which the group members interact repeatedly and might be temporarily constrained to contribute to the public goods production. We show that an increase in the group size generates two opposite effects - the standard free-riding effect and the novel large-scale effect, which enhances cooperative incentives. Our results indicate that the former effect dominates in relatively large groups whilethe latter in relatively small groups. We provide therefore a rationale for nonmonotonic group-size effect which is consistent with the previous empirical and experimental findings.
Subjects: 
pure public goods
repeated game
non-monotonic group-size effect
JEL: 
H40
D73
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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