Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/45413 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 1026
Publisher: 
TÜSİAD-Koç University Economic Research Forum, Istanbul
Abstract: 
We study public goods game where the contribution efforts are observable. When the players are observed, they contribute more and free-riding diminishes significantly. On the other hand, presence of an audience does not affect the performance of players if there is no strategic aspect of the game, i.e. when they play private goods game. The findings are in line with the predictions of the social image theory where a player's contribution is also a signal to an audience regarding how much she cares about contributing to the public goods.
Subjects: 
public goods
effort
experiment
social image
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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