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Participatory accountability and collective action : experimental evidence from Albania
Barr, Abigail; Packard, Truman; Serra, Danila - In: European economic review : EER 68 (2014), pp. 250-269
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423555
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Participatory accountability and collective action : experimental evidence from Albania
Barr, Abigail; Packard, Truman; Serra, Danila - 2013
It has been argued that accountability is a public good that only citizens can provide. Governments can put … if accountability is to be achieved. Thus, citizens face a social dilemma - participate in holding public servants to … those who do. If this characterization of accountability is valid, we would expect more cooperatively inclined citizens to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010187861
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The disposition effect in team investment decisions: Experimental evidence
Rau, Holger A. - 2015
This paper experimentally studies the disposition effects of teams and individuals. The disposition effect describes the phenomenon that investors are reluctant to realize losses, whereas winners are sold too early. Our experiments compare the investments of two-person teams to a setting where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011319147
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Individual characteristics and behavior in repeated games: An experimental study
Davis, Douglas; Ivanov, Asen; Korenok, Oleg - 2014
Using a laboratory experiment, we investigate whether a variety of behaviors in repeated games are related to an array of individual characteristics that are popular in economics: risk attitude, time preference, trust, trustworthiness, altruism, strategic skills in one-shot matrix games,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381009
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Aspects of behavior in repeated games: An experimental study
Davis, Douglas; Ivanov, Asen; Korenok, Oleg - 2014
We introduce a novel approach to studying behavior in repeated games - one that is based on the psychology of play. Our approach is based on the following six "aspects" of a player's behavior: round-1 cooperation, lenience, forgiveness, loyalty, leadership, and following. Using a laboratory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381012
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The marginal voter's curse
Herrera, Helios; Llorente-Saguer, Aniol; McMurray, Joseph C. - 2016
pivotal motivations in large elections. Model predictions are confirmed in a laboratory experiment and applied in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796522
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Asymmetric enforcement of cooperation in a social dilemma
Nikiforakis, Nikos; Normann, Hans-Theo; Wallace, Brian - 2009
We use a public-good experiment to analyze behavior in a decentralized asymmetric punishment institution. The institution is asymmetric in the sense that players differ in the effectiveness of their punishment. At the aggregate level, we observe remarkable similarities between outcomes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003862419
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Competitive politics, simplified heuristics, and preferences for public goods
Schläpfer, Felix; Schmitt, Marcel; Roschewitz, Annette - 2007
This paper examines the role of simplified heuristics in the formation of preferences for public goods. Political scientists have suggested that voters use simplified heuristics based on the positions of familiar parties to infer how a proposed policy will affect them and to cast a vote in line...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003892449
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Asymmetric enforcement of cooperation in a social dilemma
Nikiforakis, Nikos; Normann, Hans-Theo; Wallace, Brian - In: Southern economic journal 76 (2010) 3, pp. 638-659
We use a public-good experiment to analyze behavior in a decentralized asymmetric punishment institution. The institution is asymmetric in the sense that players differ in the effectiveness of their punishment. At the aggregate level, we observe remarkable similarities between outcomes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003957696
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Are groups more rational, more competitive or more prosocial bargainers?
Vollstädt, Ulrike; Böhm, Robert - 2012
In reality, it is often groups rather than individuals that make decisions. In previous experiments, groups have frequently been shown to act differently from individuals in several ways. It has been claimed that inter-group interactions may be (1) more competitive, (2) more rational, or (3)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579900