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Voting in international environmental agreements: Experimental evidence from the lab
Dannenberg, Astrid - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
different voting schemes to determine the terms of the agreement. To this end, unanimity, qualified majority voting, and simple … majority voting are compared with respect to the resulting pollution abatement level and social welfare. At first sight in line … with theoretical predictions, the experiment shows that the change of the voting scheme implemented in an IEA does not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694111
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Democracy and compliance in public goods games
Gallier, Carlo - 2017
voting. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735628
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Jobs, crime, and votes: A short-run evaluation of the refugee crisis in Germany
Gehrsitz, Markus; Ungerer, Martin - 2018
. Yet, little is known about the impact of this inflow on labor markets, crime, and voting behavior. This article uses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872758
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Mixed motives: an empirical analysis of ILO roll-call votes
Boockmann, Bernhard - 2002
In this empirical paper, we look at individual voting behaviour of government delegates to the International Labour … Organization (ILO). We distinguish between the instrumental motive for voting, which consists in the chance that one´s vote may … from 1977 to 1995. The hypothesis that voting is only instrumental is clearly rejected by the data. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298082
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The choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems: A survey of experimental research
Dannenberg, Astrid; Gallier, Carlo - 2019
A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising in prisoners' dilemmas, public goods games, and common pool resource games. Participants in these experiments have the opportunity to influence the rules of the game before they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012011030
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Mixed motives: an empirical analysis of ILO roll-call votes
Boockmann, Bernhard - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002
In this empirical paper, we look at individual voting behaviour of government delegates to the International Labour … Organization (ILO). We distinguish between the instrumental motive for voting, which consists in the chance that one´s vote may … from 1977 to 1995. The hypothesis that voting is only instrumental is clearly rejected by the data. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097496
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On the formation of coalitions to provide public goods: Experimental evidence from the lab
Dannenberg, Astrid; Lange, Andreas; Sturm, Bodo - 2010
The provision of public goods often relies on voluntary contributions and cooperation. While most of the experimental literature focuses on individual contributions, many real-world problems involve the formation of institutions among subgroups (coalitions) of players. International agreements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300513
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Voting in international environmental agreements: Experimental evidence from the lab
Dannenberg, Astrid - 2010
different voting schemes to determine the terms of the agreement. To this end, unanimity, qualified majority voting, and simple … majority voting are compared with respect to the resulting pollution abatement level and social welfare. At first sight in line … with theoretical predictions, the experiment shows that the change of the voting scheme implemented in an IEA does not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302595
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On the formation of coalitions to provide public goods: Experimental evidence from the lab
Dannenberg, Astrid; Lange, Andreas; Sturm, Bodo - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
The provision of public goods often relies on voluntary contributions and cooperation. While most of the experimental literature focuses on individual contributions, many real-world problems involve the formation of institutions among subgroups (coalitions) of players. International agreements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568601
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Vote buying or (political) business (cycles) as usual?
Aidt, Toke; Asatryan, Zareh; Badalyan, Lusine; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015
We provide new evidence on the short-run effect of elections on monetary aggregates. We study month-to-month fluctuations in the growth rate of M1 in a sample of 85 low and middle income democracies from 1975 to 2009. The evidence shows an increase in the growth rate of M1 during election months...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011203169