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, campaigns will have less effects for such consumers. -- Voluntary contributions ; public goods ; responsibility ; altruism …
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Reciprocity is one of the main basic social relations that constitute societies. It consists of being favourable to others because others are favourable to you (and not from an exchange in the strict sense). It rests on three possible rationales: (1) balance (comparison, matching), often related...
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This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory...
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Altruism, giving and pro-social conduct, and reciprocity, are the basis of the existence and performance of societies … (which they sometimes also create); and in charity and specific organizations. Altruism has various origins: it can be … hedonistic or natural altruism in empathy, affection, sympathy, emotional contagion, pity, and compassion; or normative altruism …
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Intergenerational altruism and contemporaneous cooperation are both important to the provision of long-lived public … problem with a constant discount rate and an endogenous annuity. -- overlapping generations ; altruism ; time consistency …
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I compare the relative importance of inter-generational altruism and contemporaneous cooperation, in determining … equilibrium climate policy, by imbedding an OLG framework with inter-generational altruism into a differential game between … nations. The model uses new representations for the aggregate preferences of OLGs with paternalistic or pure altruism, and …
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Intergenerational altruism and contemporaneous cooperation are both important to the provision of long-lived public …
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This research is inspired by in-kind donations that have the capacity to increase the marginal benefit (productivity) in provision of public goods, for example by providing critical infrastructure that increases the productivity of resources utilized by local public good providers. We provide...
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We investigate if decision makers exploit moral wiggle room in green market settings. We therefore implement a laboratory experiment in which subjects purchase products associated with externalities. In six between-subjects treatments, we alter the availability of information on the...
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prevalence of bequests, bequest motives, tests of altruism, and the importance of borrowing (liquidity) constraints and show that …
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