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The Development of the Division of Power among the European Commission, the Council and the European Parliament

Laruelle, Annick; Widgrén, Mika - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

Probabilistic measures of a priori voting power are useful tools to asses actors' influence on collective decision-making either for the purpose of designing a voting organ or to model particular policy cases. This paper makes an attempt to reduce a dynamic voting process into a cooperative...

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The Impact of Turkey's Membership on EU Voting

Baldwin, Richard; Widgrén, Mika - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

In this paper, we evaluate the impact of Turkey's membership on EU voting. The aspects that we discuss are decision-making efficiency and the distribution of power in the EU's leading decision making body the Council of Ministers. We compare two alternative Council voting rules: those accepted...

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A Theory of Fairness, Competition and Cooperation

Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

. Yet, when they are given the opportunity to punish free riders, stable cooperation is maintained although punishment is …

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How Can Bill and Melinda Gates Increase Other People's Donations to Fund Public Goods?

Karlan, Dean S.; List, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

-scale natural field experiments. In the first experiment, a charity focusing on poverty reduction solicited donations from prior … the second field experiment, the same charity sent direct mail solicitations to individuals who had not previously donated … than not identifying the name of the matching donor. The first experiment demonstrates that the matching grant condition …

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Public goods, participation constraints, and democracy: A possibility theorem

Grüner, Hans Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

It is well known that ex post efficient mechanisms for the provision of indivisible public goods are not interim individually rational. However, the corresponding literature assumes that agents who veto a mechanism can enforce a situation in which the public good is never provided. This paper...

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Choosing the Stick or the Carrot? Endogenous Institutional Choice in Social Dilemma Situations

Haigner, Stefan; Kocher, Martin; Sutter, Matthias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

endogenous choice, groups typically vote for the reward option, even though punishment is actually more effective in sustaining …

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The 'Names Game': Harnessing Inventors Patent Data for Economic Research

Melamed, Ran; Shiff, Gil; Trajtenberg, Manuel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The goal of this paper is to lay out a methodology and corresponding computer algorithms, that allow us to extract the detailed data on inventors contained in patents, and harness it for economic research. Patent data has long been used in empirical research in economics, and yet the information...

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Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples

Falk, Armin; Meier, Stephan; Zehnder, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

behavior of students and the general population in a trust experiment. We find very similar behavioral patterns for the two …

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Hey Look at Me: The Effect of Giving Circles on Giving

Karlan, Dean S.; McConnell, Margaret - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Theories abound for why individuals give to charity. We conduct a field experiment with donors to a Yale University … theories, we conduct a laboratory experiment with undergraduates, and found no evidence to support the alternative, altruistic …

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Risking Other People’s Money

Andersson, Ola; Holm, Håkan J.; Tyran, Jean-Robert; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We study risk taking on behalf of others in an experiment on a large random sample. The decision makers in our … experiment are facing high-powered incentives to increase the risk on behalf of others through hedged compensation contracts or …

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