Threshold Public Goods

门槛公共物品

基本信息

批准号：
277734396
负责人：
Professor Dr. Friedel Bolle (†)
金额：
--
依托单位：
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
依托单位国家：
德国
项目类别：
Research Grants
财政年份：
2015
资助国家：
德国
起止时间：
2014-12-31 至 2018-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/277734396?language=en
关键词：
Threshold Public Goods

项目摘要

Public goods which are produced only if a minimum amount of support (critical mass) is provided for its production are called "threshold public goods". If the voluntary supporters can provide only nothing or a fixed amount of their resource, we call these goods Binary Threshold Public Goods (BTPGs). Examples are the - Participation in common holidays, social projects, strikes- Ratification of the Kyoto protocol with fixed reduction commitments- Support of proposals in parliaments or owner assemblies- Signing a public request"Contributing" can be accompanied by positive or negative (opportunity) costs. These can be psychic costs, for example if a member of parliament votes against his own credo, because supporting his party promotes his career, or costs can consist of time and money as, for example, participating in a school project concerning one’s children. Of course, the production of the BTPG is preceeded by a pre-play phase where the public good is specified and discussed with respect to means and ends. This phase will be commented but it is not part of the theoretical and experimental investigations.In our project, we want to gain theoretical insights based on a rather general model. Hypotheses for our experimental investigations should be guided by theory.Concerning our request for extension of the original project:Our main goals have not changed. We want to complete our results and test a theoretical statement which we did not know at the time of the original application.- Theory: BTPGs have a plethora of equilibria. For heuristic/plausible as well as for systematic equilibrium selection the attributes of these equilibria are crucial. Further investigations are necessary.- Theory/behavior: Theoretically, the efficiency of simultaneous and sequential voting is completely different. Until the end of the project we will have completed experiments with simultaneous voting, in the extension phase we want to conduct experiments with sequential voting.- We have unused data from personality tests and elicitations of emotions. The usage of these data requires extensive discussions not only about meaning and connection with decisions, but also about statistical methods. (In our previous project "Power and Responsibility" the usage of these data was connected with additional insights and publications.)

提供支持的公共物品（批判性质量）是生产的，如果自愿支持只能提供其资源或固定数量的资源，我们称这些商品二进制阈值公共物品（BTPG）。例如 - 参与共同假期，社会项目，罢工 - 对京都协议的批准，并固定减少承诺 - 支持议会或所有者议会的建议 - 签署公共请求“贡献”可以伴随正面或负面（正面或负面））费用。 BTPG的生产是由预先播放的阶段提出的，公共优点是关于手段和目的的质指定的。基于一个相当普遍的模型获得理论。。理论：BTPG具有启发式/合理的平衡。人格的未使用的数据也不是关于统计的，这些数据的用法与其他见解和出版物有关。