Introducing a threshold in the sense of a minimal project size transforms a public-good game with an inefficient … thresholds are ineffective at best and often counterproductive. This holds over a range of threshold levels and refund rates. We … test whether thresholds perform better if they are endogenously chosen, i.e., whether a threshold is approved in a …

interest in those parameters, voting patterns suggest significant influence of cooperative orientation, political attitudes …

interest in those parameters, voting patterns suggest significant influence of cooperative orientation, political attitudes …

A conclave is a voting mechanism in which a committee selects an alternative by voting until a sufficient supermajority … conclave leads to efficiency gains relative to simple majority voting. We also compare welfare properties of a static versus a …

more often than simple majority. In a series of laboratory experiments, we investigate how various rules affect the outcome …