In this study, it was found that economists were sensitive to different commodities based on their attitudes in terms … of fairness toward the price mechanism, whereas non-economists did not exhibit significant sensitivity. This sensitivity … was so strong that no self-selection effect could be found in economists in the case of a survey of a basic commodity …

makes business students more selfish: candidates seem to undergo a self-selection process before they begin their studies. …

offers for the differences found in the behavior between economists and non-economists are: (i) the selection effect, and (ii …

Rationierungsentscheidungen. Es geht um die Allokation und Distribution knapper Zuteilungsgüter, also etwa um die Vergabe von Kindergarten- oder … Untersuchung ist zweigeteilt. Der erste Teil rekonstruiert Elsters Beiträge zu einer Theorie lokaler Gerechtigkeit. Der zweite Teil … Prinzipien lokaler Gerechtigkeit Elster identifiziert, ((2)) wie er ihre unterschiedlichen Anreizeffekte gegenüberstellt und ((3 …

Departures from "economic man" behavior in many games in which fairness is a salient characteristic are now well …

In this paper, we examine students' attitudes towards various allocation mechanisms for a scarce resource. For this …-year economists or other students. These results stand in contrast to results obtained by Frey, Pommerehne and Gygi (1993) on the same …

fairness - insofar as they do not directly contribute to individual welfare - should be eschewed as a basis for policy … process rooted in the notions of fairness and equality appears to be at odds with. But is it? In this essay we seek to make a … remedy the inefficiency in such cases; alas, judicial decisionmaking is notoriously mired in fairness-based analysis, which …