We conduct an experiment where subjects are matched in groups of three and vote on a moral transgression. Analyzing … different voting rules, the frequency of votes for the moral transgression increases with the number of votes required for it … us to identify guilt sharing and preferences for consensual voting as empirically relevant and independent drivers of …

We report on the results of an experiment designed to disentangle behavioral biases in information aggregation of … reasoning), but strikingly overestimate their pivotality when voting (contradicting plain lying aversion). That is, committees … truthful messages and sincere voting. A simple one-parameteric generalization of quantal response equilibrium capturing …

educational performance information may incentivize politicians to implement welfare-enhancing reforms. …

strategic belief manipulation and a novel experiment in which we replicate Di Tella, et al.'s, experiment and also elicit the …

governed by individuals and groups and compare how voting rules affect outcomes. We also contrast static information collection …

voluntary provision of public goods. In our one-shot experiment, we find that coordination often fails and exogenously imposed …, because voting may facilitate coordination due to signaling and commitment effects. We find that voting does have signaling … of public goods ; threshold ; voting ; experiments …

We consider an experiment with a version of the Battle of the Sexes game with two-sided private information, allowing a …

advantaged in the grand (organization-wide) contest for two reasons: First, the incentive to free-ride is smaller in inter …-divisional contests. Second, competition in the intra-divisional contest is less fierce. Both effects induce a higher marginal utility of … effort provision. We test the model in a laboratory experiment and confirm its main predictions. Our results have important …