Novel empirical insights by their very nature tend to be unanticipated, and in some cases at
odds with the current state of knowledge on the topic. The mechanics of statistical inference …

We offer a novel investigation of the effect of environmental risk on cooperation in the
Voluntary Contribution Mechanism. Our baseline is the standard setting, in which the …

Typically, a linear public goods game with a voluntary contribution mechanism (VCM) sees
declining contributions over repeated one-shot periods of play. However, contributions …

In many collective action problems individuals' contributions increase the probability of a
collectively favorable event rather than affect the quantity of public goods provided. Such …

Using data from a laboratory experiment, I study how co-operation is affected when the
benefit from the public good is risky (uncertain) and heterogeneous amongst members of a …

This paper theoretically and experimentally investigates the impact of information provision
on voluntary contributions to a linear public good with an uncertain marginal per-capita …

We experimentally examine private information and communication in a public goods
environment with uncertain returns. We consider a common-value public goods game in …

Introduction Ambiguity is part of most of the daily life decisions. It can affect the way people
deal with environmental threats, especially when they face a social dilemma. Method We run …

This paper investigates systemic risk that emerges from the interplay between uncertain
returns to individual actions, uncertainty on others' behavior and all this filtered through …

The linear public goods game with a voluntary contribution mechanism (VCM) has a large
literature providing many insights for the field. Recent papers have investigated impacts on …