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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 …
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interest in those parameters, voting patterns suggest significant influence of cooperative orientation, political attitudes …
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This paper examines whether and how cheap talk communication can facilitate within-group coordination when two unequal sized groups compete for a prize that is shared equally among members of the winning group, regardless of their (costly) contributions to the group’s success. We find that...
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). Being adopted by voting appears to enhance the efficiency of both informal sanctions and non-deterrent formal sanctions. …
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difficult to study human behavior in a synthetic or theoretic manner. We present results from experiments with dilemma games …
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This paper provides evidence that free riders are heavily punished even if punishment is costly and does not provide any material benefits for the punisher. The more free riders negatively deviate from the group standard the more they are punished. As a consequence, the existence of an...
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difficult to study human behavior in a synthetic or theoretic manner. We present results from experiments with dilemma games …
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pool resource (CPR) experiments. The evidence indicates that in standard CPR games without communication and without …
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expert decide” in committee voting is influenced by the probability of corrupt experts, and that influence can have, to a …
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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 …
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