• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Altruism and Charitable Giving in a Fully Replicated Economy
  • Contributor: Gaube, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
  • imprint: [S.l.]: SSRN, 2005
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (27 p)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.703641
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  • Footnote: Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments April 2005 erstellt
  • Description: In this paper, an economy is analyzed where one group of agents, the altruists, cares about the well-being of another group of agents, the recipients. It is asked how changes in the size of these groups affect the altruists' charitable giving in the Nash equilibrium. I show that a pure group size effect, i.e., a proportional expansion of both subgroups can lead to less free riding and to a lower degree of underprovision relative to the efficient level of charitable giving
  • Access State: Open Access