Introducing a threshold in the sense of a minimal project size transforms a public goods game with an inefficient … thresholds are ineffective at best and often counter-productive. This holds under a range of threshold levels and refund rates …. We test if thresholds perform better if they are endogenously chosen, i.e. if a threshold is approved in a referendum …

interest in those parameters, voting patterns suggest significant influence of cooperative orientation, political attitudes …

). Being adopted by voting appears to enhance the efficiency of both informal sanctions and non-deterrent formal sanctions. …

difficult to study human behavior in a synthetic or theoretic manner. We present results from experiments with dilemma games …

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 …

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

expert decide” in committee voting is influenced by the probability of corrupt experts, and that influence can have, to a …

treatment) is a salient fairness principle in taxation that shapes voting on commodity taxes above and beyond concerns for …

of tax shifting in the market. We show that tax salience biases consumers’ voting on tax regimes, and that experience is …

economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost …