Stimulus-response (SR) and belief-based learning (BBL) models are estimated with experimental data from sender-receiver games and compared using the Davidson and MacKinnon P-test for non-nested hypotheses. Depending on a certain adjustment parameter, the P-test favors the SR model, the BBL model...

This paper reports experiments designed to help resolve longstanding controversies about the comparison of voting rules for multi-candidate elections. By paying subjects conditionally on election outcomes, we create electorates with (publically) known preferences. Each electorate then votes,...

Do polls simply measure intended voter behavior or can they affect it and, thus, change election outcomes? Do candidate ballot positions or the results of previous elections affect voter behavior? We conduct several series of experimental, three-candidate elections and use the data to provide...