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Communication and voting in heterogeneous committees: An experimental study
Le Quement, Mark T.; Marcin, Isabel - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522110
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Contests with incumbency advantages: An experiment investigation of the effect of limits on spending behavior and outcome
Otsubo, Hironori - 2012
This paper experimentally investigates the effect of limits on campaign spending and outcome in an electoral contest where two candidates, an incumbent and a challenger, compete for office in terms of the amount of campaign expenditure. The candidates are asymmetric only in that the incumbent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291825
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On self-serving strategic beliefs
Ging-Jehli, Nadja R.; Schneider, Florian H.; Weber, … - 2019
from players with such an incentive and from neutral third parties with no incentive to bias their beliefs. We find no … difference between the two sets of beliefs, suggesting that people do not negatively bias their beliefs about a strategic … strategic belief manipulation and a novel experiment in which we replicate Di Tella, et al.'s, experiment and also elicit the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993805
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On Self-Serving Strategic Beliefs
Ging-Jehli, Nadja R.; Schneider, Florian H.; Weber, … - 2019
from players with such an incentive and from neutral third parties with no incentive to bias their beliefs. We find no … difference between the two sets of beliefs, suggesting that people do not negatively bias their beliefs about a strategic … strategic belief manipulation and a novel experiment in which we replicate Di Tella, et al.’s, experiment and also elicit the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018208
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Public goods and voting on formal sanction schemes: An experiment
Putterman, Louis; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Kamei, Kenju - 2010
The burgeoning literature on the use of sanctions to support public goods provision has largely neglected the use of formal or centralized sanctions. We let subjects playing a linear public goods game vote on the parameters of a formal sanction scheme capable both of resolving and of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287731
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Go divisive or not? How political campaigns affect turnout
Gennaioli, Caterina - 2010
This paper studies how political competition can lead candidates to strategically increase the salience of specific issues, in order to influence voting decisions of marginal groups, with non trivial consequences for turnout rates. In my setup issues differ in their divisiveness, to be defined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274832
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Information and Strategic Voting
Tyszler, Marcelo; Schram, Arthur - 2011
We theoretically and experimentally study voter behavior in a setting characterized by plurality rule and mandatory voting, where voters choose from three options. We are interested in the occurrence of strategic voting in an environment where Condorcet cycles may occur. In particular, we focus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325876
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Individual and Collective Information Acquisition: An Experimental Study
Reshidi, Pëllumb; Lizzeri, Alessandro; Yariv, Leeat; … - 2021
Many committees—juries, political task forces, etc.—spend time gathering costly information before reaching a decision. We report results from lab experiments focused on such information-collection processes. We consider decisions governed by individuals and groups and compare how voting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799768
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Mechanisms for efficient voting with private information about preferences
Engelmann, Dirk; Grimm, Veronika - 2008
We experimentally study behavior in a simple voting game where players have private information about their preferences. With random matching, subjects overwhelmingly follow the dominant strategy to exaggerate their preferences, which leads to inefficiency. We analyze an exogenous linking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299751
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What makes voters turn out: The effects of polls and beliefs
Agranov, Marina; Goeree, Jacob K.; Romero, Julian; … - 2012
's advantage. Consequently, pre-election polls do not exhibit the detrimental welfare effects that extant theoretical work predicts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316838