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Inherited institutions: Cooperation in the light of democratic legitimacy

Langenbach, Pascal; Tausch, Franziska - 2017

impact of the voting procedure, no information about the cooperation history is provided. In line with existing empirical …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011662174

The political economy of agricultural protection: Sweden 1887

Lehmann, Sibylle H.; Volckart, Oliver - 2010

We analyse the Swedish general elections that took place in spring and autumn 1887. Our aim is to discover which groups of voters were responsible for the severe losses that the supporters of free trade suffered in the second of these contests, and that allowed the protectionists to gain the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270440

Give everybody a voice! The power of voting in a public goods experiment with externalities

Engel, Christoph; Rockenbach, Bettina - 2014

We study the effect of voting when insiders´ public goods provision may affect passive outsiders. Without voting …. Voting on the recommended contribution level enhances contributions if outsiders are unaffected and internalizes the negative … externality by lowering contributions when outsiders are negatively affected. Remarkably, voting does not increase contributions …

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Competitive equilibrium in markets for votes

Casella, Alessandra; Llorente-Saguer, Aniol; Palfrey, … - 2012

We develop a competitive equilibrium theory of a market for votes. Before voting on a binary issue, individuals may buy … market for votes generates welfare losses, relative to simple majority voting, if the committee is large enough or the …

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Communication and voting in heterogeneous committees: An experimental study

Le Quement, Mark T.; Marcin, Isabel - 2016

We study experimentally the effectiveness of communication in common value committees exhibiting publicly known heterogeneous biases. We test models assuming respectively self-interested and strategic-, joint payoff-maximizing- and cognitively heterogeneous agents. These predict varying degrees...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522110

Institutional endogeneity and third-party punishment in social dilemmas

Marcin, Isabel; Robalo, Pedro; Tausch, Franziska - 2016

situations in which the adoption of this institution is endogenously decided via majority voting to situations in which it is …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522111

Communication and voting in heterogeneous committees : an experimental study

Le Quement, Mark T.; Marcin, Isabel - 2016

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444227

Institutional endogeneity and third-party punishment in social dilemmas

Marcin, Isabel; Robalo, Pedro; Tausch, Franziska - 2016

situations in which the adoption of this institution is endogenously decided via majority voting to situations in which it is …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455952

Give everybody a voice! : the power of voting in a public goods experiment with externalities

Engel, Christoph; Rockenbach, Bettina - 2014

We study the effect of voting when insiders ́public goods provision may affect passive outsiders. Without voting …. Voting on the recommended contribution level enhances contributions if outsiders are unaffected and internalizes the negative … externality by lowering contributions when outsiders are negatively affected. Remarkably, voting does not increase contributions …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010429972

Inherited institutions : cooperation in the light of democratic legitimacy

Langenbach, Pascal; Tausch, Franziska - 2017

impact of the voting procedure, no information about the cooperation history is provided. In line with existing empirical …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011587713