Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5058386 Economics Letters 2016 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

•The private provision of public goods can be incentivized by a contest.•Evolutionary stability of public goods game with contest is studied.•If evolutionary stability and Nash equilibrium coincide, the outcome is efficient.

We study evolutionary stability for public goods games incentivized by a contest. In a quasi-linear setting, we derive conditions such that evolutionary stability, Nash equilibrium and efficient solution coincide.

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