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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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). 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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In a two-stage two-public good experiment, we study the effect that subjects’ possibility of contributing to a public good in the first stage of the game has on the voluntary contributions to the second public good. Our results show that subjects do not follow either the Nash strategy or the...
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We study the effect of the possibility of investing in cultural education on the voluntary contributions to the cultural good. Moreover, we provide treatments with different context in order to control for a possible framing effect. Our results show the absence of effect of cultural education on...
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We study the effect that the possibility of investing in cultural education has on the voluntary contributions to a cultural good. This is done in a two-stage public-good experiment. We also provide treatments with different context in order to control for a possible framing effect. Our results...
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voting body may affect the balance of power between the original members even if their number of votes and the decision rule … this effect using laboratory experiments. Participants propose and vote on how to divide a budget according to weighted … majority voting rules, and we measure the voting power of a player by his average payoff in the experiment. By comparing voting …
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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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treatment) is a salient fairness principle in taxation that shapes voting on commodity taxes above and beyond concerns for …
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