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Communication and voting in heterogeneous committees : an experimental study
Le Quement, Mark T.; Marcin, Isabel - 2016
We study experimentally the effectiveness of communication in common value committees exhibiting publicly known heterogeneous biases. We test models assuming respectively self-interested and strategic-, joint payoff-maximizing- and cognitively heterogeneous agents. These predict varying degrees...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444227
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Who runs? : honesty and self-selection into politics
Fehrler, Sebastian; Fischbacher, Urs; Schneider, Maik T. - 2016
, potential candidates compete in a contest to become their party's nominee. At the election stage, the nominated candidates … campaign by making non-binding promises to voters. Confirming the model's key predictions, we find in the experiment that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543745
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Communication and voting in heterogeneous committees: An experimental study
Le Quement, Mark T.; Marcin, Isabel - 2016
We study experimentally the effectiveness of communication in common value committees exhibiting publicly known heterogeneous biases. We test models assuming respectively self-interested and strategic-, joint payoff-maximizing- and cognitively heterogeneous agents. These predict varying degrees...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522110
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When does regression discontinuity design work? : evidence from random election outcomes
Hyytinen, Ari; Meriläinen, Jaakko; Saarimaa, Tuukka; … - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 9 (2018) 2, pp. 1019-1051
against the estimate produced by this experiment that takes place exactly at the cutoff. The experimental estimate suggests … and statistically significant effect. Bias‐corrected RDD estimates that apply robust inference are, however, in line with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011994548
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Why are there more women in the upper house?
Kasuya, Yūko; Miwa, Hirofumi; Ono, Yoshikuni - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014435140
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011344858
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Pivotality and responsibility attribution in sequential voting
Bartling, Björn; Fischbacher, Urs; Schudy, Simeon - 2015 - Revised version, April 2015
This paper analyzes responsibility attributions for outcomes of collective decision making processes. In particular, we ask if decision makers are blamed for being pivotal if they implement an unpopular outcome in a sequential voting process. We conduct an experimental voting game in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010243444
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(Dis)honest politicians and the value of transparency for campaign promises
Lang, Matthias; Schudy, Simeon - 2020
effects of opacity in a laboratory experiment and find that opacity leads to more generous promises, but also to more promise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012231501
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On self-serving strategic beliefs
Ging-Jehli, Nadja R.; Schneider, Florian; Weber, Roberto A. - 2019
from players with such an incentive and from neutral third parties with no incentive to bias their beliefs. We find no … difference between the two sets of beliefs, suggesting that people do not negatively bias their beliefs about a strategic … strategic belief manipulation and a novel experiment in which we replicate Di Tella, et al.'s, experiment and also elicit the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011967187
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On self-serving strategic beliefs
Ging-Jehli, Nadja R.; Schneider, Florian; Weber, Roberto A. - 2019
from players with such an incentive and from neutral third parties with no incentive to bias their beliefs. We find no … difference between the two sets of beliefs, suggesting that people do not negatively bias their beliefs about a strategic … strategic belief manipulation and a novel experiment in which we replicate Di Tella, et al.'s, experiment and also elicit the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011973976