of contests, the allocation of voting rights in committees, and the desirability of low-powered incentive schemes. In … American Idol, the judges, who are presumably experts in evaluating singing effort, have no voting power when the field is … effort. It may be optimal to give the entire voting power to the viewers whose evaluation of singing effort is noisier. …

consumer surplus through higher bids. In the experiment, bids increase and bidders? earnings decrease with more generous return …

experiment, a temptations-constrained version of deal-me-out emerges as the clear winner. …

their experiment is driven by guilt aversion. By modifying the procedures to include a double blind social distance protocol …

increases the overall level of cooperation in our double blind experiment. However, our results are due in part to the high …

members. We use a laboratory experiment to study the role of group identity, created by the use of symbols, in mitigating the …