laboratory binary choice minimum-effort coordination game, we randomly assign participants to three treatments: starting and … simple, voluntary mechanism to promote successful coordination when the capacity to impose sanctions is limited. …

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