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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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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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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 …
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This study explores how a self-fulfilling prophecy can solve a social dilemma. We ran two experimental treatments, baseline and automata. Both consisted of a finitely repeated public goods game with a surprise restart. In the automata treatment it was announced that there might be automata...
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This paper experimentally explores how the enforcement of cooperative behavior in a social dilemma is facilitated through institutional as well as emotional mechanisms. Recent studies emphasize the importance of anger and its role in motivating individuals to punish free riders. However, we find...
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