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Free Riding and Collective Action: An Experiment in Public Microeconomics

Schneider, Friedrich ; Pommerehne, Werner W.

In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1981, vol. 96, no. 4, p. 689-704

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    Titre
    • Free Riding and Collective Action: An Experiment in Public Microeconomics
    Auteur
    • Schneider, Friedrich. Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung der Universität, Zurich, Switzerland
    • Pommerehne, Werner W.. Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung der Universität, Zurich, Switzerland
    Type de document
    • Postprint
    Langue
    • Anglais
    Publié dans
    • The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1981, vol. 96, no. 4, p. 689-704. MIT Press
    Autre version électronique
    Classification
    • Santé
    Identifiant OAI-PMH
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:289334
    Summary
    The well-known free-rider hypothesis is examined experimentally to see (i) whether individuals behave systematically as free riders when systematic incentives to do so are created, and (ii) the extent to which free riding actually occurs. Though the experiment's participants behaved in accordance with the hypothesis, the quantitative extent to which such behavior occurred was rather modest. From this it may be concluded that the free-rider hypothesis as presently stated indicates an incompleteness in standard public microeconomics rather than providing a description of the real world