In a laboratory experiment, we investigate if groups consisting of two heterogeneous player types (with different marginal contribution costs) can increase their total contributions and payoffs in a threshold public goods game if transfer payments are possible among the players. We find that...

In a laboratory experiment, we investigate if groups consisting of two heterogeneous player types (with different marginal contribution costs) can increase their total contributions and payoffs in a threshold public goods game if transfer payments are possible among the players. We find that...

The Lisbon Treaty has carried out an exact and systematic classification of decision procedures in the legislative area. It distinguishes two kinds of mutual interaction of the most important EU organs in adopting legislative acts of the Union: the ordinary legislative procedure (OLP) and the...