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aligned, they may benefit from advantageous selection. Using a laboratory experiment, we investigate the degree to which …
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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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We model two-candidate elections in which 1) voters are uncertain about candidates' attributes; and 2) candidates can inform voters of their attributes by sending advertisements. We compare political campaigns with truthful advertising to campaigns in which there is a small chance of deceptive...
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We experimentally study the relationship between other-regarding preferences, group identity and political participation. In doing so, we propose a novel group identity induction procedure that succeeds in creating environments where in-group bias is either high or low. At the individual level,...
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We provide an overview of experimental literature on lottery contests and point out the two main phenomena observed in most contest experiments: overbidding relative to the standard Nash equilibrium prediction and heterogeneous behavior of ex-ante symmetric contestants. Based on the sample of...
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In an experiment on sequential rent seeking, we find that the theoretically predicted first-mover advantage does not … in experiment, individual behavior is highly reasonable nevertheless, such that subjects appear to play a reduced form of …. Keyword(s): Rent-seeking, Experiment, Reciprocity, Fairness, Exploitation …
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This paper uses a laboratory experiment to analyze how a group of voters experiment with a new reform. The experiment …
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Many committees---juries, political task forces, etc.---spend time gathering costly information before reaching a decision. We report results from lab experiments focused on such information-collection processes. We consider decisions governed by individuals and groups and compare how voting...
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Many committees—juries, political task forces, etc.—spend time gathering costly information before reaching a decision. We report results from lab experiments focused on such information-collection processes. We consider decisions governed by individuals and groups and compare how voting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311705
of transparency in an incentivized experiment. Transparency leads to less promise breaking but also to less generous …
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