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Pivotality and responsibility attribution in sequential voting
Bartling, Björn; Fischbacher, Urs; Schudy, Simeon - 2015 - Revised version, April 2015
This paper analyzes responsibility attributions for outcomes of collective decision making processes. In particular, we 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010243444
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Who runs? : honesty and self-selection into politics
Fehrler, Sebastian; Fischbacher, Urs; Schneider, Maik T. - 2016
, potential candidates compete in a contest to become their party's nominee. At the election stage, the nominated candidates … campaign by making non-binding promises to voters. Confirming the model's key predictions, we find in the experiment that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543745
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Pivotality and responsibility attribution in sequential voting
Bartling, Björn; Fischbacher, Urs; Schudy, Simeon - In: Journal of public economics 128 (2015), pp. 133-139
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432229
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Pivotality and responsibility attribution in sequential voting
Bartling, Bjšrn; Fischbacher, Urs; Schudy, Simeon - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010241361
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Pivotality and Responsibility Attribution in Sequential Voting
Bartling, Björn - 2015
This paper analyzes responsibility attributions for outcomes of collective decision making processes. In particular, we 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034293
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Agenda Control and Reciprocity in Sequential Voting Decisions
Fischbacher, Urs; Schudy, Simeon - 2023
votes sequentially on a known series of binary proposals. We show in a parsimonious laboratory experiment that committee …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014254359
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The Impact of Monetary Policy on Stock Market Bubbles and Trading Behavior : Evidence from the Lab
Fischbacher, Urs - 2013
This paper investigates the effect of monetary policy on stock market bubbles and trading behavior in experimental asset markets. For this purpose, we introduce the possibility of investing in interest bearing bonds to the widely used laboratory asset market design of Smith, Suchanek, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092749
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Blame and praise: responsibility attribution patterns in decision chains
Anselm, Regina; Bhatia, Deepti; Fischbacher, Urs; … - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040987
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Academic performance and single-sex schooling: Evidence from a natural experiment in Switzerland
Eisenkopf, Gerald; Hessami, Zohal; Fischbacher, Urs; … - 2011
We study the effects of random assignment to coeducational and single-sex classes on the academic performance of female high school students. Our estimation results show that single-sex schooling improves the performance of female students in mathematics. This positive effect increases if the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278858
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Academic Performance and Single-Sex Schooling: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Switzerland
Eisenkopf, Gerald; Hessami, Zohal; Fischbacher, Urs; … - CESifo - 2011
We study the effects of random assignment to coeducational and single-sex classes on the academic performance of female high school students. Our estimation results show that single-sex schooling improves the performance of female students in mathematics. This positive effect increases if the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320786