experiment with 743 subjects whether small-scale, seemingly negligible, events also affect the formation of risk preferences. In … second lottery almost a year later. The same pattern emerges in another experiment with 136 subjects where the second lottery …

We experimentally examine the effect of self-serving information avoidance on democratic and individual decisions in … institutional decision context: individual consumption, dictatorship, and majority voting in small and large groups. If information … is directly observable, we find robust evidence for expressive voting. However, in cases where information is initially …

fund capture. A model is presented where rich voters can block redistribution by buying the votes of some poor voters. In … voters can bribe the government, an additional equilibrium with zero taxation is possible. The link between corruption and …

, because the economics literature on group decision making has, so far, assumed homogeneity within groups. In a lab experiment …