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Can common ownership prevent the tragedy of the commons? : an experimental investigation
Puzon, Klarizze Anne Martin; Willinger, Marc - 2019
We study experimentally a two-stage common pool resource game. In the first stage, selected members of the group determine the level of protection for the resource. The protected fraction of the resource is equally shared among group members. In the second stage, the unprotected fraction of the...
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Organ donation in the lab : preferences and votes on the priority rule
Herr, Annika; Normann, Hans-Theo - 2015
implementing a vote on the rule in a donation experiment, and we also elicit opinion poll-like views. We find that two-thirds of … the participants voted for the priority rule in the experiment. When asked about real-world implementation, participants … of the donation experiment were more likely to support the rule than non-participants. We further confirm previous …
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Public goods and voting on formal sanction schemes : an experiment
Puttermann, 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...
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Does decentralization of decisions increase the stability of large groups?
Bjedov, Tjaša; Lapointe, Simon; Madiès, Thierry; … - 2018
Using a laboratory experiment with nested local and global public goods, we analyze the stability of global groups when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011803271
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Public goods and voting on formal sanction schemes : an experiment
Putterman, Louis G.; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Kamei, Kenju - 2010
, and of gender and intelligence. -- Public good ; voluntary contribution ; formal sanction ; experiment ; penalty ; voting …
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Voting on thresholds for public goods : experimental evidence
Rauchdobler, Julian; Sausgruber, Rupert; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2009
voluntary provision of public goods. In our one-shot experiment, we find that coordination often fails and exogenously imposed …
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Informative voting and the Samuelson rule
Bierbrauer, Felix; Sahm, Marco - 2006
We study the classical free-rider problem in public goods provision in a large economy with uncertainty about the average valuation of the public good. Individual preferences over public goods are shaped by a skill and a taste parameter. We use a mechanism design approach to solve for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010374864
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On a class of threshold public goods games : with applications to voting and the Kyoto Protocol
Bolle, Friedel - 2014
The launch of a public project requires support from "enough" members of a group. Members (players) are differently important for the project and have different cost/benefit relations. There are players who profit and players who suffer from the launch of the project. Examples are the Kyoto...
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Information aggregation in democratic mechanisms
Britz, Volker; Gersbach, Hans - 2016 - This version: January 22, 2016
We examine whether and how democratic procedures can achieve socially desirable public good provision in the presence of profound uncertainty about the benefits of public goods, i.e., when citizens are able to identify the distribution of benefits only if they aggregate their private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444451
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Pocketbook voting and social preferences in referenda
Meya, Johannes; Poutvaara, Panu; Schwager, Robert - 2015
We study the role of self-interest and social preferences in referenda. Our analysis is based on collective purchasing decisions of university students on deep-discount flat rate tickets for public transportation and culture. Individual usage data allows quantifying monetary benefits associated...
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