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help make such rules effective include the presence of informal sanctions by peers, and implementation through voting. I … after both implemented and randomly overridden voting. I find that informal sanctions strengthen the effect of formal ones …
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This experiment investigates contests between groups. Each group has one strong player, with a higher valuation for the prize, and two weak players, with lower valuations. In contests where individual efforts are perfect substitutes, all players expend significantly higher efforts than predicted...
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using laboratory experiments. A purely rational choice perspective of a simple voting environment implies that information …
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This paper addresses the interaction of voter information and seniority on electoral accountability. We test whether information leads voters to be less tolerant of moral hazard in a legislative system favoring seniority. A simple game theoretic model is used to predict outcomes in a pork-barrel...
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This paper uses experiments to explore electoral accountability in a legislative system that favors seniority. Voters …
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games designed to model common-pools in which there existed such a threshold: one with complete information of the threshold …, one with incomplete information of the threshold and one with sporadically enforced targets. By design the true threshold … was unknown to the players in the role of policymaker, and the guesses of the threshold value were allowed to change …
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experiments, increasing the probability of audit always increases compliance; higher penalty rates are ineffective to increase …
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We elicit human conditional punishment types by conducting experiments. We find that their punishment decisions to an …
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on public good provision using laboratory experiments. We create two artificial social groups in the lab and we assign …
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I show how improper conditioning of beliefs can lead to under-contribution in public goods environments with interdependent values. I consider a simple model of a binary, excludable public good. In equilibrium, provision of the public good is good news about its value. Naive players who...
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