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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 experiment investigates contests between groups. Each group has one strong player, with a higher valuation for the prize, and two weak players, with lower valuations. In contests where individual efforts are perfect substitutes, all players expend significantly higher efforts than predicted...
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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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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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of tax shifting in the market. We show that tax salience biases consumers’ voting on tax regimes, and that experience is …
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Many resource allocation contests have the property that individuals undertake costly actions to appropriate a potentially divisible resource. We design an experiment to compare individuals’ decisions across three resource allocation contests which are isomorphic under riskneutrality. The...
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contest experiments- (i) overbidding relative to the standard Nash equilibrium prediction and (ii) heterogeneous behavior of … ex-ante symmetric contestants. Based on the sample of contest experiments that we review, the median overbidding rate is …
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