This article studies endogenous formation of a sanctioning institution in a linear n-player public goods game. The main goal of this study is specifically to understand features of players who become the members of the institution by introducing heter...
This article studies endogenous formation of a sanctioning institution in a linear n-player public goods game. The main goal of this study is specifically to understand features of players who become the members of the institution by introducing hetero-geneity to the players. In this paper, we study two main models. In model 1, we con-sider an institution formation game with considering asymmetric valuations for the public good and different wealth levels. We obtain the equilibrium where each member has a higher valuation than a required level. In addition, we show that different types of correlation between the valuations for the public good and the wealth levels have an effect on the size of the set of equilibira that institution formation succeeds. In model 2, we consider another institution formation game with sequential moves of homogene-ous players. We find first-mover advantage at the equilibrium that the non-members of the institution free-ride on the second-order public good, the institution.