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 …

promoting social norms. We show here, using experiments with human subjects, that public implementation of punishment can …

affects information aggregation at the deliberation and voting stages, leading to sharply different committee error rates than …

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 …