Budget Processes: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Ehrhart, Karl-Martin; Gardner, Roy; Hagen, Jürgen von und Keser, Claudia (März 2006): Budget Processes: Theory and Experimental Evidence. SFB/TR 15 Discussion Paper No. 146

Abstract

This paper studies budget processes, both theoretically and experimentally. We compare the outcomes of bottom-up and top-down budget processes. It is often presumed that a top-down budget process leads to a smaller overall budget than a bottom-up budget process. Ferejohn and Krehbiel (1987) showed theoretically that this need not be the case. We test experimentally the theoretical predictions of their work. The evidence from these experiments lends strong support to their theory, both at the aggregate and the individual subject level.

• Dokumententyp: Paper
• Keywords: Budget processes, voting equilibrium, experimental economics
• Fakultät: Sonderforschungsbereiche > Discussion Paper Series of SFB/TR 15 Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems ; Sonderforschungsbereiche > Discussion Paper Series of SFB/TR 15 Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems > A5 - Unvollständige Vertragsbeziehungen und die Gestaltung von Residualrechten
• Themengebiete: 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 330 Wirtschaft
• JEL Classification: H61, C91, C92
• Sprache: Englisch