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Why votes have value: Instrumental voting with overconfidence and overestimation of others' errors
Dittmann, Ingolf; Kübler, Dorothea; Maug, Ernst; … - In: Games and Economic Behavior 84 (2014) C, pp. 17-38
interests or direct benefits from voting. The theoretical value of participating in the vote is therefore zero if subjects have … the vote and that they do so for instrumental reasons. The observed voting premium in the main treatment is high and can … model of instrumental voting, which assumes that individuals are overconfident and that they overestimate the errors of …
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Why votes have a value
Dittmann, Ingolf; Kübler, Dorothea; Maug, Ernst; … - 2007
experimental subjects are willing to pay a significant premium for the voting right even though there should be no such premium in … cannot explain the size of the observed voting premium. The premium disappears in treatments where voting has no material …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263711
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Fair procedures with naive agents: Who wants the Boston mechanism?
König, Tobias; Kübler, Dorothea; Mechtenberg, Lydia; … - 2019
We study preferences over procedures in the presence of naive agents. We employ a school choice setting following Pathak and Sönmez (2008) who show that sophisticated agents are better off under the Boston mechanism than under a strategy-proof mechanism if some agents are sincere. We use lab...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290353
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Fairness in matching markets: Experimental evidence
König, Tobias; Mechtenberg, Lydia; Kübler, Dorothea; … - 2023
for SD, but mainly when priorities are merit-based. Stated voting motives indicate that choosing SD is driven by concerns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014320841
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Fairness in Matching Markets: Experimental Evidence
König, Tobias; Kübler, Dorothea; Mechtenberg, Lydia; … - 2023
for SD, but mainly when priorities are merit-based. Stated voting motives indicate that choosing SD is driven by concerns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014467804
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Why Votes Have a Value
Dittmann, Ingolf; Kübler, Dorothea; Maug, Ernst; … - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 2007
experimental subjects are willing to pay a significant premium for the voting right even though there should be no such premium in … cannot explain the size of the observed voting premium. The premium disappears in treatments where voting has no material …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005677946
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Fair procedures with naive agents : who wants the Boston mechanism?
König, Tobias; Kübler, Dorothea; Mechtenberg, Lydia; … - 2019
We study preferences over procedures in the presence of naive agents. We employ a school choice setting following Pathak and Sönmez (2008) who show that sophisticated agents are better off under the Boston mechanism than under a strategy-proof mechanism if some agents are sincere. We use lab...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139539
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Voter motivation and the quality of democratic choice
Mechtenberg, Lydia; Tyran, Jean-Robert - In: Games and economic behavior 116 (2019), pp. 241-259
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012226454
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Why votes have value : instrumental voting with overconfidence and overestimation of others' errors
Dittmann, Ingolf; Kübler, Dorothea; Maug, Ernst; … - In: Games and economic behavior 84 (2014), pp. 17-38
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481247
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Fairness in matching markets : experimental evidence
König, Tobias; Kübler, Dorothea; Mechtenberg, Lydia; … - 2023
for SD, but mainly when priorities are merit-based. Stated voting motives indicate that choosing SD is driven by concerns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495059