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This article discusses Alvin Roth’s research about moneyless markets, and in particular about the manner in which kidneys are allocated to patients needing transplants. As Titmuss pointed out for blood transfusions, providing monetary incentives to blood donors may crowd out supply, since...
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We explore theoretically and empirically whether social interaction, including local and global interaction, influences the incidence of corruption. We first present an interaction-based model on corruption that predicts that the level of corruption is positively associated with social...
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serve as both imperfect socialization technologies and potentially informative signals that such socialization has taken … exchange under asymmetric information: the basic two-type screening model and a game-theoretic version of Akerlof's market for …
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It is well-known in evolutionary game theory that population clustering in Prisoner's Dilemma games allows some cooperative strategies to invade populations of stable defecting strategies. We adapt this idea of population clustering to a two-person trust game. Without knowing it, players are...
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The approval of NASDAQ'S SuperMontage was described as a challenge for the regulators. SuperMontage raises issues in relation to market structure, fragmentation and competition.
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- economic, social and spiritual. Caritas in Veritate, as every encyclical is a letter, an invitation to exchange. The comments …
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explained either by altruism or by an exchange motive. Though unequal sharing is expected under both hypotheses, under altruism … parents should direct their assistance to less well off children. Analogously, under an exchange motive we expect support to …
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This paper tests for the motives for private income transfers. We consider two motives: altruism and exchange. The … consistent with exchange. We also find that capital market imperfections are likely to be an important cause of private transfers …
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the existence of altruism and exchange motives in inter vivos transfers received by the Malaysian Muslim respondents. This … assets for the purpose of estate planning. We find exchange motive is more applicable among respondents and physical assets …
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exchange motive for transfers in the symmetric informational regime we study. However, both altruism and exchange are important … motives under asymmetric information. We show that altruism facilitates transfer-attention exchange arrangements with certain …
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