lead to suboptimal institutional choice. -- voting ; punishment ; voluntary contributions ; heterogeneity ; experiment …

goods typically assume a single rational decision-maker. We use a laboratory experiment to compare team decisions to … contribute more to the public good than individuals. With a punishment option subsequently to the contribution decision team …. Extreme preferences for punishment are eliminated by the majority decision rule. Overall, team decisions are closer to the …

temporary contract, while others are permanent members of the same team. In a laboratory experiment we analyze the cooperation …In organizations, some team members are assigned to a team for a predefined short period of time, e.g., as they have a … levels resulting from diverse teams, where some team members remain with a team and others are switching teams. Our results …