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Self-Organization for collective action: An experimental study of voting on formal, informal, and no sanction regimes
Markussen, Thomas; Putterman, Louis; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2011
). Being adopted by voting appears to enhance the efficiency of both informal sanctions and non-deterrent formal sanctions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287722
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Public goods and voting on formal sanction schemes: An experiment
Putterman, Louis; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Kamei, Kenju - 2010
interest in those parameters, voting patterns suggest significant influence of cooperative orientation, political attitudes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287731
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Governing collective action in the face of observational error
Markussen, Thomas; Putterman, Louis G.; Wang, Liangjun - 2017
We present results from a repeated public goods experiment where subjects choose by vote one of two sanctioning schemes: peer-to-peer (informal) or centralized (formal). We introduce, in some treatments, a moderate amount of noise (a 10 percent probability that a contribution is reported...
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Can endogenously chosen institutions mitigate the free-rider problem and reduce perverse punishment?
Ertan, Arhan; Page, Talbot; Putterman, Louis - 2005
Previous experiments on public goods dilemmas have found that the opportunity to punish leads to higher contributions and reduces the free rider problem; however, a substantial amount of punishment is targeted on high contributors. In the experiment reported here, subjects are given the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318915
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Endogenously excludable goods
Kolmar, Martin - 2001
In this paper we analyze the optimal interplay between the publie and private enforceement of property rights. In doing so we endogenize the distinction between public and club goods on the one and private and common-pool goods on the other hand. The private enforcement of property rights is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318860
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Federalism and the optimal degree of centralization of public goods
Kolmar, Martin - 2001
In this paper we analyze the optimal degree of centralization for the supply of public goods. We identify the reliance on an exclusion mechanism as a central feature of the decentralized provision of public goods. An exclusion mechanism induces a contest between users of the public goods who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318964
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Play it again: Partner choice, reputation building and learning in restarting, finitely-repeated dilemma games
Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis - 2013
Previous research has shown that opportunities for two-sided partner choice in finitely repeated social dilemma games can promote cooperation through a combination of sorting and opportunistic signaling, with late period defections by selfish players causing an end-game decline. How such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420270
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Pivotality and responsibility attribution in sequential voting
Bartling, Björn; Fischbacher, Urs; Schudy, Simeon - 2015
ask if decision makers are blamed for being pivotal if they implement an unpopular outcome in a sequential voting process …. We conduct an experimental voting game in which decision makers vote about the allocation of money between themselves and … recipients without voting rights. We measure responsibility attributions for voting decisions by eliciting the monetary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282471
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The political legacy of entertainment TV
Durante, Ruben; Pinotti, Paolo; Tesei, Andrea - 2015
the extreme persistence of the effect to the relative incidence of these age groups in the voting population, and explore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011460769
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Who Supports Portable Assessment Caps? The Role of Lock-Ins, Tax Share, and Mobility
Cheung, Ron; Cunningham, Chris R. - 2010
We examine voter support in 2008 for Constitutional Amendment 1 in Florida, which modifies a Proposition 13–like property assessment growth cap by allowing homeowners to port their exempted value to a new home. Despite claims by amendment proponents that it would lower property taxes, we do...
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