Public-Goods Games with Endogenous Institution-Formation : Experimental Evidence on the Effect of the Voting Rule

Funaki, Yukihiko and Li, Jiawen and Veszteg, Robert F. (2017) Public-Goods Games with Endogenous Institution-Formation : Experimental Evidence on the Effect of the Voting Rule. Games, 8 (4): 52. ISSN 2073-4336

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Abstract

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 the plurality voting rule. We show that, comparing to the unanimity voting rule, the plurality rule results in a significant and large decrease in the institution initiation rate, along with a significant and large increase in the institution implementation rate. In the end, as the two effects cancel each other out, the choice of the voting rule does not significantly affect the average contribution level or efficiency

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Games
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? institution formationlaboratory experimentplurality votingpublic-goods gameunanimity votingstatistics and probabilityapplied mathematicsstatistics, probability and uncertainty ??
ID Code:
89071
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Deposited On:
06 Dec 2017 14:48
Refereed?:
Yes
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Published
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15 Jul 2024 17:23