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Snir, Avichai; Levy, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005

Economic organization of the imaginary worlds depicted in popular literary works may be viewed as a mirror to public opinion on the economic organization of life. If a book becomes a best-seller, it is because the book conveys messages, feelings, and events the readers can relate to. In other...

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Third-party punishment and social norms

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - EconWPA - 2004

We examine the characteristics and relative strength of third-party sanctions in a series of experiments. We hypothesize that egalitarian distribution norms and cooperation norms apply in our experiments, and that third parties, whose economic payoff is unaffected by the norm violation, may be...

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Are there Regional Variations in the Psychological Cost of Unemployment in South Africa?

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2003

Are certain groups of unemployed individuals hurt less by unemployment than others? This paper is an attempt to test the hypothesis that non- pecuniary costs of unemployment may vary between societies with different unemployment rates. Using cross-sectional data from the SALDRU93 survey, we show...

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"Mixed Signals: Market Incentives, Recycling, and the Price Spike of 1995"

Ackerman, Frank; Gallagher, Kevin - EconWPA - 2001

environmentally important industry such as recycling, then the surprising implication for public policy is that measures to control or …

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"Waste in the Inner City: Asset or Assault?"

Ackerman, Frank; Mirza, Sumreen - EconWPA - 2001

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Does Motivation Trigger Autonomy, or Vice Versa?

Petrova, Kameliia - EconWPA - 2005

motivated? A standard result in economics is that firms offer autonomous jobs to promote worker motivation. But surprisingly … motivates them. Does autonomy in fact trigger motivation? I argue in this study that motivation may trigger autonomy, and thus … motivation, and that motivated workers have a lower cost of processing information than unmotivated ones. While motivated workers …

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Does Competition Affect Giving? An Experimental Study

Duffy, John; Kornienko, Tatiana - EconWPA - 2005

We explore whether natural human competitiveness can be exploited to stimulate charitable giving in a controlled laboratory experiment involving three different treatments of a sequential ``dictator game.'' Without disclosing the actual amounts given and kept, in each period players are publicly...

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Incentives, Monitoring, and Motivation

Rauh, Michael T.; Seccia, Giulio - EconWPA - 2005

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Arousal, rank and utility

Galochkin, Igor - EconWPA - 2004

We apply Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to the concept of utility and then go on to a new model where individual’s behavior is aimed at reaching optimal level of arousal of neural system and optimal level of domination in social ranking.

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The Green Entrepreneur: Visionary, Maverick or Opportunist?

Taylor, David W.; Walley, Liz E. E. - EconWPA - 2003

Given the importance of green entrepreneurs in the transition towards a truly sustainable society, this paper proposes frameworks for investigating the motives of entrepreneurs who set up green businesses. Different perceptions of 'green' are explored and although the paper focuses particularly...

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