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The Poverty of Growth with Interdependent Utility Functions

Salamon, Peter; Komlos, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

We argue that with interdependent utility functions growth can lead to a decline in total welfare of a society if the gains from growth are sufficiently unequally distributed in the presence of negative externalities, i.e., envy.

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Cumplimiento fiscal y bienes públicos: ¿Son realmente compatibles?

Sour, Laura - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This work provides experimental evidence of the determinants of tax compliance in Mexico, and compares them to the results of an experiment administered in the United States reported by Alm, Jackson and McKee (1992). The results for both countries are contrasted to the predictions of the...

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Visibility of Contributors and Cost of Information: An Experiment on Public Goods

Samak, Anya; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We experimentally investigate the impact of visibility of contributors and cost of information on public good contributions. First, we vary recognizing all, highest or lowest contributors. Second, we investigate the effect of imposing a cost on viewing contributors. Recognizing all contributors...

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Conditional Punishment

Kamei, Kenju - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We elicit human conditional punishment types by conducting experiments. We find that their punishment decisions to an individual are on average significantly positively proportional to other members’ punishment decisions to that individual.

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A fair pivotal mechanism for nonpecuniary public goods

Pivato, Marcus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The Clarke pivotal mechanism is inappropriate for nonpecuniary public goods, because the assumption of quasilinear … utility is invalid, and because the mechanism gives disproportionate influence to wealthier voters. But by introducing a … mechanism is `fair' in the sense that the voters in different strata all have equal influence (on average) over the outcome …

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Asset-Centred Redistributive Policies for Sustainable Development

Kohler, Pierre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The objective of this discussion paper is to propose an asset-centred analytical framework for (i) mapping the most important redistributive policy tools that shape the distribution of income and income-generating assets (such as human capital and wealth, including land, industrial or financial...

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Cursed beliefs with common-value public goods

Cox, Caleb - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

I show how improper conditioning of beliefs can lead to under-contribution in public goods environments with interdependent values. I consider a simple model of a binary, excludable public good. In equilibrium, provision of the public good is good news about its value. Naive players who...

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Can public goods experiments inform policy? Interpreting results in the presence of confused subjects

Cotten, Stephen J.; Ferraro, Paul J.; Vossler, Christian A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

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Perfect-Substitutes, Best-Shot, and Weakest-Link Contests between Groups

Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This experiment investigates contests between groups. Each group has one strong player, with a higher valuation for the prize, and two weak players, with lower valuations. In contests where individual efforts are perfect substitutes, all players expend significantly higher efforts than predicted...

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Recognizing Contributors: An Experiment on Public Goods

Samek, Anya; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We experimentally investigate the impact of recognizing contributors on public good contributions. We vary recognizing all, highest or lowest contributors. Consistent with previous studies, recognizing all contributors significantly increases contributions relative to the baseline. Recognizing...

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