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Group Contests with Complementarities in Efforts

Kolmar, Martin; Rommeswinkel, Hendrik - 2021

Usually, groups increase their productivity by the specialization of their group members. In these cases, group output is no longer simply a sum of individual outputs. We analyze contests with group-specific public goods that allow for different degrees of complementarity between group...

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Psychologically-Based Voting with Uncertainty

Degan, Arianna; Li, Ming - 2021

We analyze a psychologically-based model of voter turnout in an election with common value and uncertainty. Our model yields distinctive comparative statics results. First, an increase in the proportion of informed citizens may cause the winning margin for the right candidate to either rise or...

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Differential Prize Taxation and Structural Discrimination in Contests

Mealem, Yosef - 2012

This paper evaluates differential prize taxation and structural discrimination as a means of increasing efforts in the most widely studied contests. We establish that a designer who maximizes efforts subject to a balanced-budget constraint prefers dual discrimination, namely, change of the...

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Effort Maximization in Asymmetric N-Person Contest Games

Franke, Jörg - 2009

This paper provides existence and characterization of the optimal contest success function under the condition that the objective of the contest designer is total effort maximization among n heterogeneous players. Heterogeneity of players makes active participation of a player in equilibrium...

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Conditional Cooperation and the Effect of Punishment

Kirchkamp, Oliver - 2018

We study how punishment influences conditional cooperation. We ask two questions: 1) how does conditional cooperation … change if a subject can be punished and 2) how does conditional cooperation change if a subject has the power to punish … cooperation. We find that the possibility of being punished increases the strength of conditional cooperation. At the same time …

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Partial Coercion, Conditional Cooperation, and Self-Commitment in Voluntary Contributions to Public Goods

Cettolin, Elena - 2011

In this paper we experimentally investigate whether partial coercion can in combination with conditional cooperation … finding is that in our setting conditional cooperation is not a strong enough force to increase contribution levels. Although … cooperation and puts some doubt on the idea that it is crucial in overcoming social dilemma problems …

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Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Good Experiments

Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2021

We provide a test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and its decline. We elicit … individuals' cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them - as well as subjects' elicited beliefs - to explain … based on this data, we show that the decline of cooperation can be driven by the fact that most people have a preference to …

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Image Concerns and the Political Economy of Publicly Provided Private Goods

König, Tobias - 2017

, enhancing the social exclusivity of market purchases. In effect, majority voting may lead to a public provision that only a …

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Electoral Competition with Rationally Inattentive Voters

Matějka, Filip - 2016

interact with policy design by politicians? We address these questions by developing a model of electoral competition with …

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Social Ideology and Taxes in a Differentiated Candidates Framework

Krasa, Stefan; Polborn, Mattias - 2021

How does ideological polarization on non-economic matters influence the size of government? We analyze this question using a differentiated candidates framework: Two office-motivated candidates differ in their (fixed) ideological position and their production function for public goods, and...

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