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Principal-Agent Settings with Random Shocks

Rubin, Jared; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Using a gift exchange experiment, we show that the ability of reciprocity to overcome incentive problems inherent in principal-agent settings is greatly reduced when the agent’s effort is distorted by random shocks and transmitted imperfectly to the principal. Specifically, we find that gift...

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Türkiye'de Sağlık Hizmetleri ve Finansmanı

Celikay, Ferdi; Gumus, Erdal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Increasing and sustaining the quality of life for people can be possible when they are healthy. Good health conditions require good quality and reachable health care services. Because of the market failure as a result of asymmetric information, public sector as well as private one provides...

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Social choice with approximate interpersonal comparisons of well-being

Pivato, Marcus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

possible, allowing a rich theory of distributive justice. Other models assume that absolutely no interpersonal comparisons are …

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Ashamed to be Selfish

Dillenberger, David; Sadowski, Philipp - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

We study a two-stage choice problem, where alternatives are allocations between the decision maker (DM) and a passive recipient. The recipient observes choice behavior in stage two, while stage one choice is unobserved. Choosing selfishly in stage two, in the face of a fairer available...

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Trafficking in drugs and economic theory

Pandey, S.S.D. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1991

The focus of this study is on black markets which provide an important segment of the parallel economy. These markets operate in disequilibrium,search and information costs become very important.Trafficking in drugs taken as case, to explore both theoretically and empirically. The problem,...

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Risky social choice with approximate interpersonal comparisons of well-being

Pivato, Marcus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We develop a model of social choice over lotteries, where people's psychological characteristics are mutable, their preferences may be incomplete, and approximate interpersonal comparisons of well-being are possible. Formally, we suppose individual preferences are described by a...

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Social diversification, injustices, and Pareto optimality with non-binary preferences

Berdellima, Arian; Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We prove the existence of a Pareto optimal state of a finite society that has socially differentiated persons, each with non-binary personal preferences that quasi-order a finite set of alternatives. Everybody engages in a volitional act of choice by maximization of non-binary preferences. As a...

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An analysis of correlation between organizational justice and job satisfaction

Yaghoubi, Esmaeil; Ahmadzadeh Mashinchi, Sina; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This study was an attempt to explore the relationship between organizational justice, encompassed by three components …: (distributive justice, procedural justice and interactional justice) job satisfaction, that is employees’ perceptions of workplace … justice. This study, indeed, investigated the relationship among these justice measures in the Iranian environment. The data …

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Why is the Workplace Racially Segregated by Occupation?

Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Ken Arrow (1998) asks, “What has economics to say about racial discrimination?” He replies – entirely correctly – that racial “segregation within an industry – that is, firms with either all black or all white labor forces” – may be explained by economic theory, but “the...

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Ética y Justicia. Reflexiones a partir de The Idea of Justice de Amartya Sen

Mejía Cubillos, Javier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper carries out a brief analysis of Amartya Sen’s thinking on Justice, based on Part IV of his book The Idea of … Justice. Besides of describing Sen’s thoughts on the subject, the paper aims to contextualize it in the evolution of Sen …’s work and in the general discussion on Justice in economic theory, reconsidering his identity as a non utilitarian …

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