[VCEE Seminar] VCEE Seminar with Randolph Sloof - Invitation, November 9

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Dear All,

You are invited to attend the VCEE seminar on Monday, November 9, from 11:30
to 13:00 hrs Vienna time. 

The seminar takes place in lecture hall 7 (1st floor) at
Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1.

We will have one speaker: Randolph Sloof (U Amsterdam)

Webpage:  Randolph Sloof
<https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/s/l/r.sloof/r.sloof.html?cb> 

Here is more information about the talk:

Title: The Role of Opinion Polls in Coordination Amongst Protest Voters: An
Experimental Study (with Oliver Feltham and Arthur Schram)

 

Abstract:

In elections, protest voters signal discontent with their traditionally
supported party in different ways. This paper examines a specific form in
which voters choose an anti-mainstream party over their true first
preference as a way to signal discontent with mainstream policies or to
influence future policy decisions. Protest voters face a trade-off stemming
from a coordination problem: too few protest votes leave the signal too weak
to affect mainstream policies, while too many may result in an
anti-mainstream victory, which is a sub-optimal outcome for the protest
voter. Opinion polls can address this problem through two channels:
providing information about the challenges protest voters face (information
channel) and functioning as a coordination mechanism, allowing protest
voters to coordinate their behaviour with each other based on poll results
(coordination channel). We test experimentally the extent to which each
channel increases the likelihood that the protest succeeds and find that
both are significant.

If you are interested in meeting Randolph (meeting slots of 30') you can
register via this link:

 
<https://www.termino.gv.at/meet/de/p/3dcf4806f2e368df3da211a60c737c1c-647567
>
https://www.termino.gv.at/meet/de/p/3dcf4806f2e368df3da211a60c737c1c-647567

 

Best regards,

Julia 

 

 

Julia Hnidek 

Department of Economics

University of Vienna

Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1

1090 Wien 

Phone: +43 1 4277 374 02



 

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