Free riding and the provision of candy bars

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Haan, M; Kooreman, P
• 署名单位: University of Groningen
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(00)00157-2
• 发表日期: 2002
• 页码: 277-291
• 关键词: free riding; public good experiments; honor system

摘要

A wealth of experimental literature studies the effect of repetition and group size on the extent of free riding in the provision of public goods. In this paper, we use data from honor systems for candy bars in 166 firms to test whether such effects can be found outside the laboratory. We find that free riding increases with repetition, and weak evidence that free riding decreases with group size. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.