Public-goods games with endogenous institution-formation: Experimental evidence on the effect of the voting rule

Yukihiko Funaki, Jiawen Li, Robert Ferenc Veszteg

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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.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number52
    JournalGames
    Volume8
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2017 Dec 2

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    Keywords

    • Institution formation
    • Laboratory experiment
    • Plurality voting
    • Public-goods game
    • Unanimity voting

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Statistics and Probability
    • Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
    • Applied Mathematics

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    Public-goods games with endogenous institution-formation : Experimental evidence on the effect of the voting rule. / Funaki, Yukihiko; Li, Jiawen; Veszteg, Robert Ferenc.

    In: Games, Vol. 8, No. 4, 52, 02.12.2017.

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    Funaki, Y, Li, J & Veszteg, RF 2017, 'Public-goods games with endogenous institution-formation: Experimental evidence on the effect of the voting rule', Games, vol. 8, no. 4, 52. https://doi.org/10.3390/g8040052
    Funaki Y, Li J, Veszteg RF. Public-goods games with endogenous institution-formation: Experimental evidence on the effect of the voting rule. Games. 2017 Dec 2;8(4). 52. https://doi.org/10.3390/g8040052
    Funaki, Yukihiko ; Li, Jiawen ; Veszteg, Robert Ferenc. / Public-goods games with endogenous institution-formation : Experimental evidence on the effect of the voting rule. In: Games. 2017 ; Vol. 8, No. 4.
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