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Voting on Thresholds for Public Goods: Experimental Evidence
Rauchdobler, Julian; Sausgruber, Rupert; Tyran, Jean-Robert - CESifo - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583651
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Tipping versus Cooperating to Supply a Public Good
Barrett, Scott; Dannenberg, Astrid - CESifo - 2015
In some important multi-player situations, such as efforts to supply a global public good, players can choose the game they want to play. In this paper we conduct an experimental test of the decision to choose between a “tipping” game, in which every player wants to contribute to the public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210784
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Voting on Punishment Systems within a Heterogeneous Group
Noussair, Charles; Tan, Fangfang - CESifo - 2009
productivity. Nevertheless, only a minority of sessions converge to this system, indicating a tendency for the voting process to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013941
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Democratic Provision of Divisible Public Goods
Gersbach, Hans - CESifo - 2010
In this paper we examine the potential of democratic constitutions for the provision of divisible public goods in a large economy. Our main insights are as follows: When aggregate shocks are absent, the combination of the following rules yields first-best allocations: a supermajority rule, equal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583634
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Understanding the Emergence of Public Debt
Fochmann, Martin; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; Weimann, Joachim - CESifo - 2014
We use a controlled laboratory experiment with and without overlapping generations to study the emergence of public debt. Public debt is chosen by popular vote, pays for public goods, and is repaid with general taxes. With a single generation, public debt is accumulated prudently, never leading...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877837
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Enforcement of Contribution Norms in Public Good Games with Heterogeneous Populations
Reuben, Ernesto; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2009
Economic and social interaction takes place between individuals with heterogeneous characteristics. We investigate experimentally the emergence and informal enforcement of different contribution norms to a public good in homogeneous and different heterogeneous groups. When punishment is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013056
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Minimum Participation Rules for the Provision of Public Goods
Gerber, Anke; Neitzel, Jakob; Wichardt, Philipp Christoph - CESifo - 2012
This paper considers the endogenous formation of an institution to provide a public good. If the institution governs only its members, players have an incentive to free ride on the institution formation of others and the social dilemma is simply shifted to a higher level. Addressing this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645648
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Culture and Cooperation
Gaechter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt; Thöni, Christian - CESifo - 2010
Does the cultural background influence the success with which genetically unrelated individuals cooperate in social dilemma situations? In this paper we provide an answer by analyzing the data of Herrmann et al. (Science 2008, pp. 1362-1367), who study cooperation and punishment in sixteen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534012
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Sequential versus Simultaneous Contributions to Public Goods: Experimental Evidence
Gaechter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Renner, Elke; … - CESifo - 2009
We report an experiment comparing sequential and simultaneous contributions to a public good in a quasi-linear two-person setting (Varian, Journal of Public Economics, 1994). Our findings support the theoretical argument that sequential contributions result in lower overall provision than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000384
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The Value of Non-Binding Announcements in Public Goods Experiments: Some Theory and Experimental Evidence
Berlemann, Michael; Dittrich, Marcus; Markwardt, Gunther - CESifo - 2004
conclusions are broadly confirmed by the results of a series of classroom experiments we present. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094302