Essays in empirical public economics

Zahn, Philipp

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URL:	https://madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/33202
URN:	urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-332023
Document Type:	Doctoral dissertation
Year of publication:	2012
Place of publication:	Mannheim
University:	Universität Mannheim
Evaluator:	Grüner, Hans Peter
Date of oral examination:	8 May 2013
Publication language:	English
Institution:	Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences - CDSE (Economics) School of Law and Economics > VWL, Wirtschaftspolitik (Grüner 1999-)
Subject:	330 Economics
Subject headings (SWD):	Altruismus , Anreiz , Politische Ökonomie , Experiment , Asymmetrische Information
Keywords (English):	political economy , social identity , social preferences , incentives , motivation , crowding out , trust , experiment , dictator game , asymmetric information
Abstract:	This dissertation consists of three self-containted chapters which contribute to different strands of the literature in empiricial public economics and experimental economics. In Chapter 2 we investigate the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and political support for democracy in Western European countries. In Chapter 3 we analyze in a simplified Gift Exchange Game experiment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of control mechanisms and under which conditions control can have a detrimental effect on agents’ prosocial behavior. Finally, in Chapter 4 we test within an experimental setting whether asymmetric information influences prosocial behavior in a variant of the Dictator Game.