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Instructions for the Election Game
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Phase 3: The Election Game
In this phase you will play multiple rounds of a two-part game.
The first part of each round will be identical to the Sender-Receiver game
you played in phase 2 of today’s experiment. Players will be given {{ Constants.endowment }}
and then assigned to the role of sender or receiver.
After all participants have made their decisions,
they will be endowed with 10 more tokens and then assigned to play the opposite role.
The second part of each round will be identical to the Group Game,
with one important change: each group will elect the member that will act as
their representative using a ranked choice voting system.
Each participant will be endowed with {{ Constants.endowment }}
and randomly placed into groups of 4. Same as in the Group game,
{{ Constants.flat_invest }} will be taken from each of the 3 group members
and placed into a group account.
Each of you will make the decision regarding the amount transferred to
your private account from the group account as if you are the
group's representative in advance of the representative being elected.
When entering your decisions, you will not know whether you have been elected
as the group's representative. This will not be revealed to you until after
you make your decisions. Your decisions have no impact on whether or not you
are elected as the representative.
On the next screen, you will see the amounts sent to and returned by the
other members of your group in the sender-receiver game, and their values of R.
They will be labeled anonymously as Player A, Player B, and Player C.
You will rank the other 3 members of their group, assigning 1 to the player
you most want to be the representative and 3 to the player you least
want to be the representative. When making their decision,
they will be given three pieces of information about each player:
- The amount of tokens that were sent to them in the trust game
when they were the Receiver
- Of those tokens, the amount of tokens they returned in the
trust game when they were the Receiver
- The R value that was assigned
to them based on the Investment game.
On the next screen, you will be able to enter your best guess about each
of the other players’ decisions – how much you think they will transfer to their
private accounts if they are the representative, and what is the probability
that they will transfer all the money in the group account to their private account.
Each group member will receive 2 points for each 1st place vote, 1 point
for each 2nd place vote, and 0 points for each 3rd place vote. The member with
the most points will be the group representative. Ties will be broken randomly.
You will play this game sequence 5 times – the sender-receiver game,
followed by the representative election game. After each round you will be
informed which member was elected the representative and the results from the round.
At the beginning of each round you will be randomly
re-matched into a new group of 4 members.
Summary of Election Game:
You will play multiple rounds of the following game sequence:
- First you will play the Sender-Receiver game
twice: Once as Sender, Once as Receiver.
- You will decide how many tokens you will transfer from
the group account into your private account if you are
selected to be the representative
- Next, you will vote on who will vote on who will be the
representative in the Election Game.
You will be told each candidate’s R value
and their decision they last made as the Receiver
in the Sender-Receiver Game. You will be asked to guess how
many tokens each candidate would transfer into their private account
as the Representative.
- After all players have made their decisions,
the representative will be selected.
Reminder of Payoffs:
For the three members, their payoff from this round is the {{ remain }}
remaining in their private account plus their earnings from the group account:
- Member payoff from their private account = {{ remain }}
- Member payoff from the group account = (({{ total }} -
amount taken by representative) x R)/3
- Total Member payoff = payoff from private account +
payoff from group account
For the representative, their payoff will include a {{ earning }} fee
for being the representative in addition to any tokens they transferred
from the group account into their private account:
- Total Representative payoff = {{ Constants.endowment }} +
{{ Constants.flat_earning }} +
the amount they transferred from the group account
Quiz 4:
You will receive 2 tokens for a correct answer to the following question,
paid separately at the end of the experiment.
1. Member A receives 2 first place votes and 1 second place vote.
Member B receives 2 second place votes and 1 third place vote.
Member C receives 1 first place and 2 third place votes.
Which member will be elected the representative? {{ formfield 'answer_1'}}
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