An Experimental Analysis of Decision-making Procedures for Discrete Public Goods: A Case Study of a Problem in Institutional Design
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Description
The lead article, by Ferejohn, Forsythe, and Noll, describes a mechanism which is actually used by the public television network to decide which of a large number of contending programs will be produced and purchased, at what prices, and by whom. Because the cost of producing a program is largely independent of how widely it is distributed and because a program is a lumpy unit, the problem is one of the provision of a discrete public good. Ferejohn, Forsythe, and Noll designed a version of the network's mechanism which can be used in an experiment and ran an experiment to compare it with a public goods allocation mechanism proposed by Green and Laffont (1977).
Source Publication
Research in Experimental Economics
Source Editors/Authors
Vernon Smith
Publication Date
1979
Volume Number
1
Recommended Citation
Ferejohn, John A., "An Experimental Analysis of Decision-making Procedures for Discrete Public Goods: A Case Study of a Problem in Institutional Design" (1979). Faculty Chapters. 502.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/502
