Title
The Role Of Cultural Capital On The Voluntary Contributions To Cultural Goods: A Differential Game Approach
Abstract
This study aims to offer a formal analysis which relates provision of cultural goods to the society's level of cultural capital. Such a level is assumed to already exist in society and is increasable thanks to individual support for the offer of cultural goods. The achievement of the highest levels of cultural capital increases satisfaction coming from cultural goods consumption, and then voluntary contributions. Social approval, deriving from donations, is positively related to society's existing cultural capital and triggers a positive externality for donators, thus increasing contributions and generating a positive externality for the whole society. The dynamic analysis provided in this study requires the adoption of a differential game where individuals interact, making their choices on their voluntary contribution level. We find that, under certain conditions, the solution obtained for the Nash equilibrium with closed-loop strategies provides optimal level of cultural capital that exceed the Pareto efficient solution obtained through open-loop strategies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.3390/g12010027
GAMES
Keywords
DocType
Volume
public goods, cultural capital, voluntary offer, social approval, differential games
Journal
12
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Massimo Finocchiaro Castro100.34
Isidoro Mazza200.34
Domenica Romeo300.34