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The choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems : a survey of experimental research

Dannenberg, Astrid; Gallier, Carlo - 2019

in prisoners' dilemmas, public goods games, and common pool resource games. Participants in these experiments have the …

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Minority protection in voting mechanisms : experimental evidence

Engelmann, Dirk; Grüner, Hans Peter; Hoffmann, Timo; … - 2023

Under simple majority voting an absolute majority of voters may choose policies that are harmful to minorities. It is … the purpose of sub- and super-majority rules to protect legitimate minority interests. We study how voting rules are … choose voting rules for given distributions of gains and losses that can arise from a policy, but before learning their own …

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The political economy of negotiating international carbon markets

Arvaniti, Maria; Habla, Wolfgang - 2020 - This version: April 2020

International carbon markets are frequently propagated as an efficient instrument for reducing CO2 emissions. We argue that such markets, despite their desirable efficiency properties, might not be in the best interest of governments who are guided by strategic considerations in negotiations. We...

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Mixed motives : an empirical analysis of ILO roll-call votes

Boockmann, Bernhard - 2002

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Can a bonus overcome moral hazard? : an experiment on voluntary payments, competition, and reputation in markets for expert services

Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - 2017

Interactions between players with private information and opposed interests are often prone to bad advice and inefficient outcomes, e.g. markets for financial or health care services. In a deception game we investigate experimentally which factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor...

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Who cares about social image?

Engelmann, Dirk; Friedrichsen, Jana - 2018

This paper experimentally investigates how concerns for social approval relate to intrinsic motivations to purchase ethically. Participants state their willingness-to-pay for both a fair trade and a conventional chocolate bar in private or publicly. A standard model of social image predicts that...

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An experiment on social mislearning

Eyster, Erik; Rabin, Matthew; Weizsäcker, Georg - 2018

We investigate experimentally whether social learners appreciate the redundancy of information conveyed by their observed predecessors' actions. Each participant observes a private signal and enters an estimate of the sum of all earlier-moving participants' signals plus her own. In a first...

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Deferred acceptance with news utility

Dreyfuss, Bnaya; Glicksohn, Ofer; Heffetz, Ori; Romm, Assaf - 2023

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Personality traits and cognitive ability in political selection

Jokela, Markus; Meriläinen, Jaakko; Tukiainen, Janne; … - 2023 - February 2023 (first version July 2022, second version August 2022)

We present the first comprehensive evidence on the role of cognitive ability and personality traits in the selection of electoral candidates and election of politicians. Using unique data that combine population registers and election statistics from local government elections in Finland with...

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Self-persuasion : evidence from field experiments at international debating competitions

Schwardmann, Peter; Tripodi, Egon; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2021

Laboratory evidence shows that when people have to argue for a given position, they persuade themselves about the position’s factual and moral superiority. Such self-persuasion limits the potential of communication to resolve conflict and reduce polarization. We test for this phenomenon in a...

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