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-riding. However, people also obey law backed by mild sanctions if it is accepted in a referendum. We show that voting for mild law …
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impact of the voting procedure, no information about the cooperation history is provided. In line with existing empirical …
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interest in those parameters, voting patterns suggest significant influence of cooperative orientation, political attitudes …
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situations in which the adoption of this institution is endogenously decided via majority voting to situations in which it is …
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in prisoners' dilemmas, public goods games, and common pool resource games. Participants in these experiments have the …
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in prisoners' dilemmas, public goods games, and common pool resource games. Participants in these experiments have the …
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This paper reports results from a laboratory experiment studying the role of asymmetries, both in payoffs and recognition probabilities, in a model of strategic bargaining with Condorcet cycles. Overall, we find only limited support for the equilibrium predictions. The main deviations from...
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We contrast and compare three ways of predicting efficiency in a forced contribution threshold public good game. The …
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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...
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A conclave is a voting mechanism in which a committee selects an alternative by voting until a sufficient supermajority … conclave leads to efficiency gains relative to simple majority voting. We also compare welfare properties of a static versus a …
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