A Free Rider Experiment for the Large Class

1 September 1993

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Economic Education

Vol. 24 (4) , 353-363
https://doi.org/10.1080/00220485.1993.10844805

Abstract

This article describes several classroom activities that are designed to demonstrate the free rider problem. The author gives details for her large classroom activity in which students could allocate an initial hypothetical endowment of $100 to an asset paying a fixed return of 5 percent or an asset paying a return of 10 percent on the total class investment.

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