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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation
Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2021
in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important … mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this paper we explore the boundary conditions for altruistic punishment to … maintain cooperation by systematically varying the cost and impact of punishment, using a subject pool which extends beyond the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318468
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Sorting Around the Discontinuity Threshold : The Case of a Neighbourhood Investment Programme
Gerritsen, Sander - 2016
This paper investigates the empirical validity of the setup of a large-scale government neighbourhood investment programme in the Netherlands. Selection of neighbourhoods into the programme was determined by their score on a predetermined index. At first sight this is a textbook example for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995597
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Symmetric and Asymmetric Committees
Ben-Yashar, Ruth - 2011
This paper studies the assignment of decision makers to two committees that make decisions by a simple majority rule. There is an even number of decision makers at each of various skill levels and each committee has an odd number of members. Surprisingly, even with the symmetric assumptions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123565
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Two Heads are Less Bubbly than One : Team Decision-Making in an Experimental Asset Market
Cheung, Stephen L. - 2009
We study the effect of team decision-making on bubbles and crashes in experimental asset markets of the kind introduced by Smith, Suchanek and Williams (1988). We find that populating such markets with teams of size two instead of individuals significantly reduces the severity of mispricing. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155154
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Delegation and Coordination with Multiple Threshold Public Goods : Experimental Evidence
Corazzini, Luca - 2019
When multiple charities, social programs and community projects simultaneously vie for funding, donors risk miscoordinating their contributions leading to an inefficient distribution of funding across projects. Community chests and other intermediary organizations facilitate coordination among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857834
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Decentralization and the Productive Efficiency of Government : Evidence from Swiss Cantons
Barankay, Iwan; Lockwood, Ben - 2021
Advocates of fiscal decentralization argue that amongst other benefits, it can increase the efficiency of delivery of government services. This paper is one of the first to evaluate this claim empirically by looking at the association between expenditure decentralization and the productive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317305
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Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
Gaechter, Simon - 2014
We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044717
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When is Voting Optimal?
Ben-Yashar, Ruth - 2014
We consider a framework where the optimal decision rule determining the collective choice depends in a simple way on the decision makers' posterior probabilities of a particular state of nature. Nevertheless, voting is generally an inefficient way to make collective choices and this paper sheds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039595
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Downstream Effects of Voting on Turnout and Political Preferences : Long-Run Evidence from the UK
Jessen, Jonas; Kühnle, Daniel; Wagner, Markus - 2021
Does voting have downstream consequences for turnout and political preferences? While research initially showed strong support for the notion that the experience of voting fosters civic habits and political engagement, recent work has cast doubt on how universal these patterns are. We contribute...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013231384
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New Insights into Conditional Cooperation and Punishment from a Strategy Method Experiment
Cheung, Stephen L. - 2011
This paper introduces new experimental designs to enrich understanding of conditional cooperation and punishment in … public good games. The key to these methods is to elicit complete contribution or punishment profiles using the strategy … contribute more unequally. Contingent punishment strategies are found to increase with decreasing contributions by the target …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125147