Number of Participants and Visibility of Public Good Games: An Empirical Study
碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 經濟學系 === 105 === I use electricity consumption data of dorm rooms to test a hypothesis in the public good game model. The hypothesis states that when the number of players increases, the average contribution of the public good decreases. Under the hypothesis, a dorm room shared by...
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2017
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| Online Access: | http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/xg9ta7 |
| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 經濟學系 === 105 === I use electricity consumption data of dorm rooms to test a hypothesis in the public good game model. The hypothesis states that when the number of players increases, the average contribution of the public good decreases. Under the hypothesis, a dorm room shared by 4 students will use more electricity per person from its air conditioner than that shared by 3 students. By analyzing the electricity consumption data of residential halls in National Taipei University, I find that dorm rooms shared by 4 students indeed have a higher average of electricity consumption from air conditioners than that shared by 3 students. This effect is only significant during day time (when individual student's decisions to turn on air conditioners are less likely to be observed by other students), but is not obvious during night time (when decisions to turn on air conditioners are more likely to be observed by others and thus are subject to negotiations). I also explore alternative explanations for the observed usage pattern.
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