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contribution rule under democracy is driven by self-selection of treatments, information transmitted via the outcome of the … referendum, and democracy per se. In case treatments are endogenously chosen via a democratic decision-making process, the … voting. …
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in a social media environment on voting behavior. Our results show that mandatory disclosure of interests, in combination …
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impact of the voting procedure, no information about the cooperation history is provided. In line with existing empirical … partly affects cooperation. While there is no positive democracy effect when the institution is implemented, the vote …
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imposed vs. democratically chosen in a vote. We find a “dividend of democracy” in the sense that the disincentive effect is …
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We experimentally investigate how reputational concerns affect behavior in repeated Tullock contests by comparing expenditures of participants interacting in fixed groups with the expenditures of participants interacting with randomly changing opponents. When participants receive full...
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We explore the efficiency and distributive implications (theoretically and experimentally) of a multilateral bargaining model with endogenous production of the surplus under two different timings: ex ante and ex post bargaining. Both timings are commonly observed in business partnerships and...
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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...
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A conclave is a voting mechanism in which a committee selects an alternative by voting until a sufficient supermajority … conclave leads to efficiency gains relative to simple majority voting. We also compare welfare properties of a static versus a …
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and bargaining games from three seminal social preference experiments. …
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