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Regulation of morally responsible agents with motivation crowding

Fünfgelt, Joachim; Baumgärtner, Stefan - 2012

We study the regulation of a morally responsible agent in the context of a negative consumption externality and motivation crowding. In particular, we analyze how various governmental interventions affect the agent's motivation to assume moral responsibility. Employing a motivation-crowding...

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Anticipated verbal feedback induces altruistic behavior

Ellingsen, Tore; Johannesson, Magnus - 2007

A distinctive feature of humans compared to other species is the high rate of cooperation with non-kin. One explanation is that humans are motivated by concerns for social esteem. In this paper we experimentally investigate the impact of anticipated verbal feedback on altruistic behavior. We...

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Evolutionary economics and household behavior

Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2014

This paper provides an introduction to the field of evolutionary economics with emphasis on the evolutionary theory of … evolutionary theory of household behavior is to improve upon the neoclassical theory of household behavior by replacing the … neoclassical assumption of selfish utility maximization with bounded rationality and satisficing and by incorporating the reaction …

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Evolutionary economics and household behavior

Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2014

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How everyday ethics becomes a moral economy, and vice versa

Keane, Webb - 2019

Unrealistic assumptions underlying neo-classical economic theory have been challenged by both behavioral economics and … studies of moral economy. But both challengers share certain features with neo-classical theory. Complementing them, recent … work in the anthropology of ethics shows that economic behavior is not reducible to either individual psychology or …

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How everyday ethics becomes a moral economy, and vice versa

Keane, Webb - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 13 (2019) 2019-46, pp. 1-25

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Is fairness blind? The effect of framing on preferences for effort-sharing rules

Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina; … - 2010

By using a choice experiment, this paper focuses on citizens' preferences for effort-sharing rules of how carbon abatement should be shared among countries. We find that Swedes do not rank the rule favoring their own country highest. Instead, they prefer the rule where all countries are allowed...

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Who never tells a lie?

Vanberg, Christoph - 2015

Erat and Gneezy (2012) conduct an experiment to test whether people avoid lying in a situation where doing so would lead to a Pareto improvement. They conclude that many people exhibit such a "pure lie aversion." I argue that the experiment does not provide a reliable test for such an aversion,...

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On The Economic Value of Repeated Interactions Under Adverse Selection

Rocco, Lorenzo; Chillem, Ottorino - 2006

The paper studies, in a repeated interaction setting, how the presence of cooperative agents in a heterogeneous community organized in groups affects efficiency and group stability. The paper expands on existing literature by assuming that each type can profitably mimic other types. It is shown...

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Parenting with style: Altruism and paternalism in intergenerational preference transmission

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2012

We construct a theory of intergenerational preference transmission that rationalizes the choice between alternative … altruism towards children. They can affect their children's choices via two channels: either by influencing their preferences …

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