Voluntary contributions to reduce expected public losses

This paper has greatly benefited from comments by Robert Baseman, David Dickinson, Armin Falk, and Jean-Louis Rullière. We are grateful to Jean-François Bérubé, Charles Bellemare and Nathalie Viennot-Briot for their assistance in doing this research. We thank Vincent Trussart for his computer program, MEG, that we used to run the experiments. Financial support by Le Ministère de la Recherche, de la Science et de la Technologie du Québec is gratefully

By: Claudia Keser, Claude Montmarquette

Published in: RC22492 in 2002

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