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Pivotality and responsibility attribution in sequential voting
Bartling, Björn; Fischbacher, Urs; Schudy, Simeon - 2015 - Revised version, April 2015
ask if decision makers are blamed for being pivotal if they implement an unpopular outcome in a sequential voting process …. We conduct an experimental voting game in which decision makers vote about the allocation of money between themselves and … recipients without voting rights. We measure responsibility attributions for voting decisions by eliciting the monetary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010243444
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Communication in asymmetric group competition over public goods
Zhang, Jingjing - 2012
; Threshold public goods ; Coordination ; Cheap talk Communication ; Content analysis ; Experiments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740925
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Recreating the South Sea bubble : lessons from an experiment in financial history
Giusti, Giovanni; Noussair, Charles; Voth, Hans-Joachim - 2014
Major bubble episodes are rare events. In this paper, we examine what factors might cause some asset price bubbles to become very large. We recreate, in a laboratory setting, some of the specific institutional features investors in the South Sea Company faced in 1720. Several factors have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010359796
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Maintaining efficiency while integrating entrants from lower-performing groups : an experimental study
Salmon, Tim; Weber, Roberto A. - 2014 - Revised version, July 2014
Efficiently growing a group or firm often requires integration of individuals from lower-performing entities. We explore the effectiveness of two policies intended to facilitate such integration, using a laboratory experiment that models production as a coordination game with Pareto-ranked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010402616
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Handing out guns at a knife fight : behavioral limitations of subgame-perfect implementation
Fehr, Ernst; Powell, Michael; Wilkening, Tom - 2014
The assumption that payoff-relevant information is observable but not verifiable is important for many core results in contract, organizational and institutional economics. However, subgame-perfect implementation (SPI) mechanisms - which are based on off- equilibrium arbitration clauses that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010402672
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The role of bounded rationality and imperfect information in subgame perfect implementation : an empirical investigation
Aghion, Philippe; Fehr, Ernst; Holden, Richard T.; … - 2015
In this paper we conduct a laboratory experiment to test the extent to which Moore and Repullo's subgame perfect implementation mechanism induces truth-telling in practice, both in a setting with perfect information and in a setting where buyers and sellers face a small amount of uncertainty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010502711
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Sorting and wage premiums in immoral work
Schneider, Florian; Brun, Fanny; Weber, Roberto A. - 2020
We use surveys, laboratory experiments and administrative labor-market data to study how heterogeneity in the perceived …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012243060
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What makes voters turn out : the effects of polls and beliefs
Agranov, Marina; Goeree, Jacob K.; Romero, Julian; … - 2012
We use laboratory experiments to test for one of the foundations of the rational voter paradigm - that voters respond … insights. First, voting propensity increases systematically with subjects' predictions of their preferred alternative … Voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740932
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Human Capital and Climate Change
Angrist, Noam; Winseck, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
-climate beliefs, behaviors, policy preferences, and novel data on voting for green parties - a particularly consequential outcome to …, and green voting, with voting gains equivalent to a substantial 35% increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247920
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Voting over Public Goods
Samwick, Andrew; Wang, Sophie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper analyzes the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on the total provision of public goods in a framework in which consumers who may make such voluntary contributions to public goods via CSR are also voters who decide on the level of taxes to finance publicly provided public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337865