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in prisoners' dilemmas, public goods games, and common pool resource games. Participants in these experiments have the …
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-proof mechanism if some agents are sincere. We use lab experiments to study the preferences of subjects for the Boston mechanism or …
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Promise competition is prevalent in many economic environments, but promise keeping is often difficult to observe. We study the value of transparency for promise competition and ask whether promises still offer an opportunity to honor future obligations when outcomes do not allow for observing...
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for SD, but mainly when priorities are merit-based. Stated voting motives indicate that choosing SD is driven by concerns …
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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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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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survey experiments in representative samples of the German electorate (N>15,000). The electorate is divided, with a plurality …
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turns a plurality opposed to tuition into a strong majority of 62 percent in favor. Additional experiments reveal that the …
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impact on voting. The US and the EU introduced targeted measures against Russian entities and individuals related to Putin … effect on voting can be explained as rally-around-the-flag in the face of sanctions, as long as voters did not endure …
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support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the …
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