Ellingsen, Tore; Johannesson, Magnus - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2007
more acceptable to
ask for favors than for money.
JEL classification: A13, J20
Keywords: Altruism, non–monetary gifts … material value to gifts that exceed the gifts’ cost, hence questioning our
premise that non–monetary gifts are inefficient …, non–monetary gifts are more likely
when they are relatively efficient. Third, even if efficiency is desirable as such,
large …