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Public-goods games with endogenous institution-formation : experimental evidence on the effect of the voting rule

Funaki, Yukihiko; Li, Jiawen; Veszteg, Róbert F. - In: Games 8 (2017) 4, pp. 1-22

We report experimental results on voluntary contributions to public-goods provision from situations in which parties can create institutions to impose a certain contribution level on its members. We focus on a public-goods game where the joint decisions inside the institution are made based on...

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Electoral competition with strategic disclosure

Bizzotto, Jacopo; Solow, Benjamin - In: Games 10 (2019) 3/29, pp. 1-17

Recent developments in information and communication technologies allow candidates for office to engage in sophisticated messaging strategies to influence voter choice. We consider how access to different technologies influence the choice of policy platforms by candidates. We find that when...

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Voting in three-alternative committees : an experiment

Goertz, Johanna M. M.; Chernomaz, Kirill - In: Games 10 (2019) 2/20, pp. 1-23

We design an experiment to test how voters vote in a small committee election with three alternatives. Voters have … election and then casts a vote. The alternative with the most votes wins. We fix the number of voters in our experiment to be … the decision is also relatively high and comes close to predicted levels. In one variation of the experiment, we calculate …

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Against all odds : tentative steps toward efficient information sharing in groups

Schlangenotto, Darius; Schnedler, Wendelin; Vadovič, … - In: Games 11 (2020) 3/31, pp. 1-24

When groups face difficult problems, the voices of experts may be lost in the noise of others' contributions. We present results from a "naturally noisy" setting, a large first-year undergraduate class, in which the expert's voice was "lost" to such a degree that bringing forward even more...

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Does party polarization affect the electoral prospects of a new centrist candidate?

Dellis, Arnaud - In: Games 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1-20

question in the context of a laboratory experiment where a centrist candidate is added to the race between a left candidate and … at preventing the election of the candidate on the opposite side. …

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Evidential equilibria : heuristics and biases in static games of complete information

Al-Nowaihi, Ali; Dhami, Sanjit S. - In: Games 6 (2015) 4, pp. 637-676

Standard equilibrium concepts in game theory find it difficult to explain the empirical evidence from a large number of static games, including the prisoner's dilemma game, the hawk-dove game, voting games, public goods games and oligopoly games. Under uncertainty about what others will do in...

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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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Framing and feedback in social dilemmas with partners and strangers

Cox, Caleb A.; Stoddard, Brock - In: Games 6 (2015) 4, pp. 394-412

We study framing effects in repeated social dilemmas by comparing payoff-equivalent Give- and Take-framed public goods games under varying matching mechanisms (Partners or Strangers) and levels of feedback (Aggregate or Individual). In the Give-framed game, players contribute to a public good,...

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To tender or not to tender? : deliberate and exogenous sunk costs in a public good game

Heine, Florian; Sefton, Martin - In: Games 9 (2018) 3/41, pp. 1-28

In an experimental study, we compare individual willingness to cooperate in a public good game after an initial team contest phase. While players in the treatment setup make a conscious decision on how much to invest in the contest, this decision is exogenously imposed on players in the control...

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Determinants of equilibrium selection in network formation : an experiment

Hoyer, Britta; Rosenkranz, Stephanie - In: Games 9 (2018) 4/89, pp. 1-25

starting network. To study factors affecting equilibrium selection, we designed a network formation experiment with multiple …

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