We develop a competitive equilibrium theory of a market for votes. Before voting on a binary issue, individuals may buy … and the market generates welfare losses, relative to simple majority voting, if the committee is large enough. We test the …

referendum, because voting may facilitate coordination due to signaling and commitment effects. We find that voting does have …

have different, privately observed intensities of preferences and before voting can buy or sell votes among themselves for …

Online labor markets have great potential as platforms for conducting experiments, as they provide immediate access to … experiments can be just as valid - both internally and externally - as laboratory and field experiments, while requiring far less … money and time to design and to conduct. In this paper, we first describe the benefits of conducting experiments in online …

political phenomena that ensued is presented. In the case of sophisticated voting over certain kinds of binary agendas, such as … sometimes yield “sophisticated sincerity”, where equilibrium voting behavior is indistinguishable from sincere voting. Under … behave leads to probabilistic voting models that typically yield utilitarian outcomes. Uncertainty among the voters over …

This survey explores the contributions of behavioral economics, laboratory experiments, and field experiments to our … of theory and experiments that have identified trust and reciprocity in economics and human behavior. …

pool resource (CPR) experiments. The evidence indicates that in standard CPR games without communication and without …