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Welfare Stigma in the Lab : Evidence of Social Signaling

Friedrichsen, Jana - 2017

Using a laboratory experiment, we present first evidence that stigmatization through public exposure causally reduces the take-up of an individually beneficial transfer. Our design exogenously varies the informativeness of the take-up decision by varying whether transfer eligibility is based on...

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Social Norms, Endogenous Sorting and the Culture of Cooperation

Fehr, Ernst - 2018

peer sanctions cause large collateral damage and efficiency costs. This raises the question whether peer sanctioning …. The exogenous removal of the norm consensus opportunity reduces the efficiency of peer punishment and renders centralized …

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Surviving the Titanic Disaster : Economic, Natural and Social Determinants

Frey, Bruno S. - 2009

The sinking of the Titanic in April 1912 took the lives of 68 percent of the people aboard. Who survived? It was women and children who had a higher probability of being saved, not men. Likewise, people traveling in first class had a better chance of survival than those in second and third...

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Noblesse Oblige? Determinants of Survival in a Life and Death Situation

Frey, Bruno S. - 2008

This paper explores the determinants of survival in a life-and-death situation created by an external and unpredictable shock. We are interested in seeing whether pro-social behaviour matters in such extreme situations. We therefore focus on the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural...

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The Limits to Moral Erosion in Markets : Social Norms and the Replacement Excuse

Bartling, Björn - 2017

This paper studies the impact of a key feature of competitive markets on moral behavior: the possibility that a competitor will step in and conclude the deal if a conscientious market actor forgoes a profitable business opportunity for ethical reasons. We study experimentally whether people...

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Regulatory Arbitrage and the Efficiency of Banking Regulation

Boyer, Pierre C. - 2016

We study the efficiency of banking regulation under financial integration. Banks freely choose the jurisdiction where … to locate their activities and have private information about their efficiency level. Regulators non-cooperatively offer … regulators to discriminate between banks with different efficiency levels. This result is driven by the endogenous restriction …

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Modelling Economic Impacts of Alternative International Climate Policy Architectures : A Quantitative and Comparative Assessment of Architectures for Agreement

Bosetti, Valentina - 2013

successors to the Kyoto protocol are assessed according to four criteria: economic efficiency; environmental effectiveness …

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Preferences for Redistribution and Pensions : What can We Learn from Experiments?

Tausch, Franziska; Potters, Johannes (Jan) J. M.; … - 2021

Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes. It is still largely an open question what people‘s preferences are regarding redistribution - both through pensions schemes as well as more generally. It would seem that economists have little to say about this question, as...

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Cooperation, Motivation and Social Balance

Bosworth, Steven - 2016

This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of “multi-directedness,” whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People have access to multiple, discrete motives....

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Conflict, Settlement, and the Shadow of the Future

McBride, Michael - 2010

In many instances of potential violent or non-violent conflict the future strategic positions of adversaries are very different when there is open conflict than when there is settlement. In such environments we show that, as the future becomes more important, open conflict becomes more likely...

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