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What makes voters turn out: The effects of polls and beliefs

Agranov, Marina; Goeree, Jacob K.; Romero, Julian; … - 2012

We use laboratory experiments to test for one of the foundations of the rational voter paradigm - that voters respond … insights. First, voting propensity increases systematically with subjects' predictions of their preferred alternative …

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Knowledge is power: A theory of information, income, and welfare spending

Lind, Jo Thori; Rohner, Dominic - 2011

informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters …

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A continuous dilemma

Friedman, Daniel; Oprea, Ryan - 2009

We study prisoner's dilemmas played in continuous time with flow payoffs over 60 seconds. In most cases, the median rate of mutual cooperation rises to 90% or more. Control sessions with 8-time repeated matchings achieve less than half as much cooperation, and cooperation rates approach zero in...

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Separating the hawks from the doves

Henwood, Keith; Friedman, Daniel; Oprea, Ryan - 2009

Human players in our laboratory experiment converge closely to the symmetric mixed Nash equilibrium when matched in a single population version of the standard Hawk-Dove game. When matched across two populations, the same players show clear movement towards an asymmetric (and very inequitable)...

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Is social responsibility a normal good?

Bartling, Björn; Valero, Vanessa; Weber, Roberto A. - 2018

We investigate whether growth in consumer income causes an increased willingness to pay to mitigate negative externalities from consumption. Correlational field evidence suggests a positive relationship between income and social responsibility. To investigate a causal link, we conduct a...

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When are mixed equilibria relevant?

Friedman, Daniel; Zhao, Shuchen - 2019

Mixed Nash equilibria are a cornerstone of game theory, but their empirical relevance has always been controversial. We study in the laboratory two games whose unique NE is in completely mixed strategies; other treatments include the matching protocol (pairwise random vs population...

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Separating the hawks from the doves: Evidence from continuous time laboratory games

Oprea, Ryan; Henwood, Keith; Friedman, Daniel - 2010

Human players in our laboratory experiment received flow payoffs over 120 seconds each period from a standard Hawk-Dove bimatrix game played in continuous time. Play converged closely to the symmetric mixed Nash equilibrium under a one-population matching protocol. When the same players were...

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Competition and the role of group identity

Cornaglia, Francesca; Drouvelis, Michalis; Masella, Paolo - 2019

The emergence of competition is a defining aspect of human nature and characterizes many important social environments. However, its relationship with how social groups are formed has received little attention. We design an experiment to analyze how individuals' willingness to compete is...

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Compulsory Voting and Public Finance

Hodler, Roland - 2010

Conventional wisdom suggests that compulsory voting lowers the influence of specialinterest groups and leads to … policies that are better for less privileged citizens, who often abstain when voting is voluntary. To scrutinize this … conventional wisdom, I study public goods provision and rents to special-interest groups in a probabilistic voting model with …

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Lobbying and the power of multinational firms

Polk, Andreas; Schmutzler, Armin; Müller, Adrian - 2010

Are national or multinational firms better lobbyists? This paper analyzes the extent of national environmental regulation when policy is determined in a lobbying game between a government and firm. We compare the resulting regulation levels for national and multinational firms. We identify three...

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