Publications [#250260] of Michael C. Munger

Journal Articles

1. Coates, D; Munger, MC, Strategizing in small group decision-making: Host state identification for radioactive waste disposal among eight southern states, Public Choice, vol. 82 no. 1-2 (January, 1995), pp. 1-15, Springer Verlag (Germany), ISSN 1573-7101 [doi]
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   Abstract:
   Experimental work in economics has long focussed attention on strategic interaction amongst individuals. A robust result is that a large fraction of participants in public goods experiments act cooperatively. This paper tests for the extent of strategic behavior in a non-laboratory setting. These data were generated when representatives from eight southeastern states voted to identify one state as host for a regional disposal facility for low-level radioactive waste. We find that no state plays its dominant (free-riding) strategy, but none plays in a completely cooperative fashion either. This result is similar to that found in laboratory public goods experiments. © 1995 Kluwer Academic Publishers.