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Endogenous Norm Formation over the Life Cycle. The case of tax evasion

Nordblom, Katarina; Zamac, Jovan - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011

This paper offers an explanation to why the general observation that elderly hold stronger moral attitudes than young ones may be an age rather than a cohort effect. We apply mechanisms from social psychology to explain how personal norms may evolve over the life cycle. We assume that people...

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Pro-social preferences and self-selection into the public health sector: evidence from economic experiments

Kolstad, Julie Riise; Lindkvist, Ida - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2010

There is growing interest in the role of pro-social motivation in public service delivery. In general, economists no longer question whether people have social preferences, but ask how and when such preferences will influence their economic and social decisions. Apart from revealing that...

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Direct Exchange in Linear Economies

Flåm, Sjur Didrik; Gramstad, Kjetil - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2012

Abstract. Considered here is direct exchange of production allowances or input factors. Motivated by practical modelling and compution, we sup- pose every owner or user of such items has a linear technology. The issue then is whether competitive market equilibrium can be reached merely via...

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Who Are the Trustworthy, We Think?

Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2006

that perceived trustworthiness decreases quite generally with the social distance. It is argued that social identity theory …

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Cooperation in teams: the role of identity, punishment and endowment distribution

Weng, Qian; Carlsson, Fredrik - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

Common identity and peer punishment have been identified as important means to reduce free riding and to promote … combinations of homogenous or heterogeneous endowment, strong or weak identity, and absence or presence of peer punishment. We find … that without punishment, strong identity can counteract the negative impact of endowment heterogeneity on cooperation …

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Group Identity and Relation-Specific Investment: An Experimental Investigation

Morita, Hodaka; Servátka, Maroš - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2011

The hold-up problem has played a central role in the study of firm boundaries that originated with the pathbreaking essay by Coase (1937). This paper studies a previously unexplored mechanism through which integration could resolve the hold-up problem. Based on Tajfel and Turner’s (1979)...

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Welfare Implications of Peer Punishment in Unequal Societies

Visser, Martine - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2006

We show that peer sanctioning increases cooperation in public goods experiments more in unequally endowed groups than in equally endowed groups. Punishment results in a redistribution of wealth from high to low endowment players within groups. <p>

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Voting Motives, Group Identity, and Social Norms

Carlsson, Fredrik; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

views, which is consistent with social identity theory.<p> …

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Motives for Private Gift Transfers: Theory and Evidence from Romania

Mitrut, Andreea; Nordblom, Katarina - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2007

In many developing and transitional countries, inter-household transfers in general and gifts in particular are sizable and very important. We use unique Romanian data that enables us, contrary to most previous studies, to isolate pure gifts from other kinds of private transfers and to study...

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Naïve Beliefs and the Multiplicity of Social Norms

Patel, Amrish; Cartwright, Edward - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011

In a signalling model of conformity, we demonstrate that naïve observers, those that take actions at face value, constrain the set of actions that can possibly be social norms. With rational observers many actions can be norms, but with naïve observers only actions close to that preferred by...

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