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Absolute vs. relative poverty and wealth : cooperation in the presence of between-group inequality

Levi, Eugenio; Ramalingam, Abhijit - 2023

While inequality in resource endowments has been shown to affect cooperation levels in groups, much of this evidence comes from studies of within-group inequality. In an online public goods experiment, we instead examine the effects of payoff-irrelevant inequality in resources between groups on...

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The influence of empirical and normative expectations on cooperation

Kölle, Felix; Quercia, Simone - 2021 - This version: June 2021

In this paper, we investigate the joint influence of empirical and normative expectations on cooperative behavior. We conduct two experimental studies (n = 243) in which we separately elicit (i) behavior in a public goods game and (ii) social norms under the form of normative and empirical...

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Chapter 10 Taxation

Kaplow, Louis - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 647-755). 2007

This Handbook entry presents a conceptual, normative overview of the subject of taxation. It emphasizes the relationships among the main functions of taxation—notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities—and the mapping between these functions and various...

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Cooperation in international environmental negotiations due to a preference for equity

Lange, Andreas; Vogt, Carla - 2001

This paper demonstrates that cooperation in international environmental negotiations can be explained by preferences for equity. Within a N-country prisoner's dilemma in which agents can either cooperate or defect, in addition to the standard non-cooperative equilibrium, cooperation of a large...

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Coalition formation with optimal transfers when players are heterogeneous and inequality averse

Rogna, Marco; Vogt, Carla - 2020

internally stable and this cause a serious underprovision of the public good together with a significant welfare loss. The …

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Peer Pressure and Inequity Aversion in the Japanese Firm

Staffiero, Gianandrea - 2008

We present an explanation of the high frequency of team production and high level of peer monitoring found in Japanese firms, in terms of a simple and empirically grounded variation in individual utility functions. We argue that Japanese agents are generally characterized by a higher degree,...

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Chapter 24 Selfishness, altruism and normative principles in the economic analysis of social transfers

Blanchet, Didier; Fleurbaey, Marc - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1465-1503). 2006

theories, such as inequality-averse social welfare functions or fairness criteria. It is shown how both approaches can be … of the Welfare State. However, while these theories may be suited for explaining the development of public insurance or … incorporation of individuals' altruistic feelings in social welfare functions. …

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Inequality, inequity aversion, and the provision of public goods

Kölle, Felix; Sliwka, Dirk; Zhou, Nannan - 2011

We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are inequity averse and may differ in ability. We show that equality may lead to a reduction of public good provision below levels generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing...

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Die Sachs-Easterly-Kontroverse : "Dissent on Development" revisited

Hielscher, Stefan - 2008

Der entwicklungsökonomische Diskurs ist aktuell geprägt durch eine kontroverse Debatte zwischen Jeffrey Sachs und William Easterly. Der Beitrag rekonstruiert beide Ansätze aus ordonomischer Perspektive. Er argumentiert, dass eine auf Kooperation angelegte Semantik vergleichsweise besser...

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Cooperation, discounting, and the effects of delayed costs and benefits

Kölle, Felix; Lauer, Thomas - 2018

Numerous studies have investigated how people resolve intertemporal trade-offs in individual decision making, but little is known about how the timing of costs and benefits affects behavior in strategic decision situations. Here, we experimentally study how delayed costs and/or benefits affect...

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