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Social Value Orientation as a Moral Intuition : Decision-Making in the Dictator Game
Cornelissen, Gert; Dewitte, Siegfried; Warlop, Luk - 2010
We studied the hypothesis that social value orientations are expressed automatically in behavior, as would be suggested by the social intuitionist model. We compared automatic and more deliberated decisions in the dictator game and confirmed that social values determine behavior when responses...
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Social norms or low-cost heuristics? : an experimental investigation of imitative behavior
Cicognani, Simona; Mittone, Luigi - 2014
This paper extends choice theory by allowing for the interaction between cognitive costs and social norms. The authors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228166
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Ambiguity and excuse-driven behavior in charitable giving
Garcia, Thomas; Massoni, Sébastien; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2019
A donation may have ambiguous costs or ambiguous benefits. Behavior in a laboratory experiment suggests that individuals use this ambiguity strategically as a moral wiggle room to act less generously without feeling guilty. Such excuse-driven behavior is more pronounced when the costs of a...
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Redistributive politics with target-specific beliefs
Fong, Christina M.; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019
the reasons for being poor. We develop and test a theo-ry about support for redistribution in the presence of target …-specific beliefs about the causes of low and high incomes. Our theory predicts that target-specific beliefs about the poor matter most … welfare recipients supports our theory. We also find, in theory, the ex-istence of a moral release equilibrium in which the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993478
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A general framework for studying contests
Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Gürtler, Oliver - 2020
technologies and skill distributions. We construct a link between our contest model and expected utility theory and exploit this … link to revisit important comparative statics results of contest theory and show how these can be overturned. Finally, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012434408
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A general framework for studying contests
Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Gürtler, Oliver - 2019
technologies and skill distributions. We construct a link between our contest model and expected utility theory and exploit this … link to revisit important comparative statics results of contest theory and show how these can be overturned. Finally, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138813
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A sorting cum learning model with a moral hazard problem
Cho, Chun-mo - In: Seoul journal of economics 4 (1991) 4, pp. 257-268
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IP Protection Games : Does Technology Type Matter For Entrepreneurial Behavior?
Campbell, Karen A. - 2013
This paper builds on an analytical tool for studying entrepreneurship in a new classical general equilibrium framework …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014184832
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Social ties in a public good experiment
Dijk, Frans van; Sonnemans, Joep; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2000
The formation of social ties is examined in an experimental study of voluntary public good provision. The experimental design consists of three parts. In the first part the value orientation (attitude to a generalized other) is measured. In the second part couples play a multi-period public good...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001474389
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The cost of the game : a taxonomy of social interactions
Parisi, Francesco - In: European journal of law and economics 9 (2000) 2, pp. 99-114
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001486239