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Communication and Voting in Heterogeneous Committees : An Experimental Study

Le Quement, Mark - 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 of...

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Liquid Democracy. Two Experiments on Delegation in Voting

Casella, Alessandra; Campbell, Joseph; de Lara, Lucas; … - 2023

Liquid Democracy is a voting system touted as the golden medium between representative and direct democracy: decisions … voting, but even when experts are correctly identified, delegation must be used sparely. We ran two very different … information is ambiguous. In both experiments, delegation rates are high, and Liquid Democracy underperforms both universal voting …

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Ambiguity on audits and cooperation in a public goods game

Dai, Zhixin; Hogarth, Robin M.; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2014

We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...

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Play it again : partner choice, reputation building and learning in restarting, finitely-repeated dilemma games

Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis G. - 2013

Previous research has shown that opportunities for two-sided partner choice in finitely repeated social dilemma games can promote cooperation through a combination of sorting and opportunistic signaling, with late period defections by selfish players causing an end-game decline. How such...

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Public statistics and private experience : varying feedback information in a take-or-pass game

Danz, David; Huck, Steffen; Jehiel, Philippe - 2015

We study how subjects in an experiment use different forms of public information about their opponents' past behavior …

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Pledges of commitment and cooperation in partnerships

Deer, Lachlan; Bayer, Ralph-C. - In: Games 7 (2016) 1, pp. 1-16

We use experimental methods to investigate whether pledges of commitment can improve cooperation in endogenously-formed partnerships facing a social dilemma. Treatments vary in terms of the individual's: (1) opportunity to commit to their partner; (2) the cost of dissolving committed...

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Trust and reputation under asymmetric information

Janas, Moritz; Oljemark, Emilia - 2020 - Version: September 10, 2020

knowledge. We test this result in a laboratory experiment. The data cannot confirm the predicted welfare dominance of private …

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Disclosure of information under competition : an experimental study

Sheth, Jesal - 2019

The theory of voluntary disclosure of information posits that market forces lead senders to disclose information through a process of unravelling. This prediction requires that receivers hold correct beliefs and, in equilibrium, make adverse inferences about non-disclosed information. Previous...

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On self-serving strategic beliefs

Ging-Jehli, Nadja R.; Schneider, Florian; Weber, Roberto A. - 2019

strategic belief manipulation and a novel experiment in which we replicate Di Tella, et al.'s, experiment and also elicit the …

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On self-serving strategic beliefs

Ging-Jehli, Nadja R.; Schneider, Florian; Weber, Roberto A. - 2019

strategic belief manipulation and a novel experiment in which we replicate Di Tella, et al.'s, experiment and also elicit the …

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