To the extent that election campaigns are simply advertising campaigns, they should not contribute directly to social … welfare. Yet election campaigns are often very costly. Why do such costly campaigns arise as the norm? If they do not benefit … society, should campaign expenditures be limited? However, costly election campaigns can benefit society indirectly by …

number of parties contesting the election and the endogenous level of campaign spending. These two dimensions are linked …

voluntary provision of public goods. In our one-shot experiment, we find that coordination often fails and exogenously imposed … equilibrium into a coordination game with a set of Pareto-superior equilibria. Thresholds may therefore improve efficiency in the …, because voting may facilitate coordination due to signaling and commitment effects. We find that voting does have signaling …

voluntary provision of public goods. In our one-shot experiment, we find that coordination often fails and exogenously imposed … equilibrium into a coordination game with a set of Pareto-superior equilibria. Thresholds may therefore improve efficiency in the …, because voting may facilitate coordination due to signaling and commitment effects. We find that voting does have signaling …

voluntary provision of public goods. In our one-shot experiment, we find that coordination often fails and exogenously imposed … equilibrium into a coordination game with a set of Pareto-superior equilibria. Thresholds may therefore improve efficiency in the …, because voting may facilitate coordination due to signaling and commitment effects. We find that voting does have signaling …

This paper introduces a novel theoretic approach towards understanding election fraud under autocracies, by suggesting … a signaling model of election fraud and testing its basic implications on unique datasets from Russian and cross …