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Voting on Thresholds for Public Goods: Experimental Evidence
Rauchdobler, Julian; Sausgruber, Rupert; Tyran, Jean-Robert - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 66 (2010) 1, pp. 34-64
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 …
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Communication in asymmetric group competition over public goods
Zhang, Jingjing - 2012
This paper examines whether and how cheap talk communication can facilitate within-group coordination when two unequal sized groups compete for a prize that is shared equally among members of the winning group, regardless of their (costly) contributions to the group's success. We find that...
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Communication in Asymmetric Group Competition over Public Goods
Zhang, Jingjing - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2009
This paper examines whether and how communication can help groups solve coordination and free-rider problems when they compete with another group for a public-good prize. We find that when group members make an anonymous individual decision on whether or not to contribute to the group success,...
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Bargaining in the Presence of Condorcet Cycles: The Role of Asymmetries
Kamm, Aaron; Houba, Harold - 2015
This paper reports results from a laboratory experiment studying the role of asymmetries, both in payoffs and recognition probabilities, in a model of strategic bargaining with Condorcet cycles. Overall, we find only limited support for the equilibrium predictions. The main deviations from...
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How transparency kills information aggregation : (and why that may be a good thing) ; conference paper
Fehrler, Sebastian; Hughes, Niall - 2014
We show theoretical and experimental results that demonstrate the potential of transparency to influence committee decision making and deliberation. We present a model in which committee members have career concerns and unanimity is needed to change the status quo. We study three scenarios -...
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Motives of sanctioning: Equity and emotions in a public good experiment with punishment
Crosetto, Paolo; Güth, Werner; Mittone, Luigi; Ploner, … - 2012
We study conditional cooperation based on a sequential two-person linear public good game in which a trusting first contributor can be exploited by a second contributor. After playing this game the first contributor is allowed to punish the second contributor. The consequences of sanctioning...
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Leading with(out) sacrifice? A public-goods experiment with a super-additive player
Glöckner, Andreas; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Kube, Sebastian; … - 2009
We analyse two team settings in which one member in a team has stronger incentives to contribute than the others. If contributions constitute a sacrifice for the strong player, the other team members are more inclined to cooperate than if contributions are strictly dominant for the strong player.
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Planning ahead: eliciting intentions and beliefs in a public goods game
González, Luis G.; Levati, Maria Vittoria - 2007
In a two-person ¯nitely repeated public goods experiment, we use intentions data to interpret individual behavior. Based on a random-utility model speci¯cation, we develop a relationship between a player's beliefs about others' behavior and his contributions' plans, and use this relationship...
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No response to changes in marginal incentives in one-shot public good experiments
Struwe, Natalie; Blanco, Esther; Walker, James - 2023
group earnings. Based on a total sample size of 952 participants, we find that, unlike results from previous experiments …
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The Provision of Public Goods with Positive GroupInterdependencies
Güth, Werner; Sääksvuori, Lauri - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2010
This article examines the nature of human behavior in a nested socialdilemma referred to as the Spillover Game. Players are divided into twogroups with positive production interdependencies. Based on theoreticallyderived opportunistic, local, and global optima, our experimental...
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