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Public goods and voting on formal sanction schemes: An experiment

Putterman, Louis; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Kamei, Kenju - 2010

interest in those parameters, voting patterns suggest significant influence of cooperative orientation, political attitudes …

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Self-Organization for collective action: An experimental study of voting on formal, informal, and no sanction regimes

Markussen, Thomas; Putterman, Louis; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2011

). Being adopted by voting appears to enhance the efficiency of both informal sanctions and non-deterrent formal sanctions. …

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Governing collective action in the face of observational error

Markussen, Thomas; Putterman, Louis G.; Wang, Liangjun - 2017

We present results from a repeated public goods experiment where subjects choose by vote one of two sanctioning schemes: peer-to-peer (informal) or centralized (formal). We introduce, in some treatments, a moderate amount of noise (a 10 percent probability that a contribution is reported...

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Can endogenously chosen institutions mitigate the free-rider problem and reduce perverse punishment?

Ertan, Arhan; Page, Talbot; Putterman, Louis - 2005

Previous experiments on public goods dilemmas have found that the opportunity to punish leads to higher contributions …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318915

Pivotality and responsibility attribution in sequential voting

Bartling, Björn; Fischbacher, Urs; Schudy, Simeon - 2015

ask if decision makers are blamed for being pivotal if they implement an unpopular outcome in a sequential voting process …. We conduct an experimental voting game in which decision makers vote about the allocation of money between themselves and … recipients without voting rights. We measure responsibility attributions for voting decisions by eliciting the monetary …

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Pledges of commitment and cooperation in partnerships

Deer, Lachlan; Bayer, Ralph-C. - 2015

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 (a) opportunity to commit to their partner, (b) the cost of dissolving committed...

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Pledges of commitment and cooperation in partnerships

Deer, Lachlan; Bayer, Ralph-C. - 2015

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More Communication, Less Cooperation: Experimental Evidence from Multi-stage Games

Andersson, Ola; Wengström, Erik - 2010

It is well known that communication often serves as a facilitator for cooperation in static games. Yet, communication can serve entirely different purposes in dynamic settings as communication during the game may work as a means for renegotiation, potentially undermining the credibility of...

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Creating an efficient culture of cooperation

Fehr, Ernst; Williams, Tony - 2017

Throughout human history, informal sanctions by peers were ubiquitous and played a key role in the enforcement of social norms and the provision of public goods. However, a considerable body of evidence suggests that informal peer sanctions cause large collateral damage and efficiency costs....

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Eu transfers and euroscepticism: Can't buy me love?

Borin, Alessandro; Macchi, Elisa; Mancini, Michele - 2018

This paper investigates whether EU redistributive policies improved the public attitude toward European integration, both in terms of public opinion and in terms of political preferences. We build a new dataset combining data from the European Social Survey, different data sources for political...

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