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Making Altruism Pay in Auction Quotas
Krishna, Kala - 1990
free trade. The conditions under which such altruism raises welfare both from free trade and from the status quo are …
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Making Altruism Pay in Auction Quotas
Krishna, Kala - 2021
free trade. The conditions under which such altruism raises welfare both from free trade and from the status quo are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013230604
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Future-biased government
González, Francisco M.; Lazkano, Itziar; Smulders, Sjak - 2015
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Theories of fairness and reciprocity : evidence and economic applications
Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2000
Most economic models are based on the self-interest hypothesis that assumes that all people are exclusively motivated by their material self-interest. In recent years experimental economists have gathered overwhelming evidence that systematically refutes the self-interest hypothesis and suggests...
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Raising children to work hard : altruism, work norms and social insurance
Lindbeck, Assar; Nyberg, Sten - 2001
, parental altruism makes withdrawal of such support non-credible. To promote work effort, parents may want to instill norms …
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Compensatory inter vivos gifts
Hochgürtel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - 2007
This discussion paper led to a publication in href=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jae.1071/fullJournal of Applied Econometrics, 24(6), 993-1023.Parents’ transfer motives are important for understanding, e.g., macroeconomics, income (re)distribution, savings, and public finance....
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Social interaction, co-worker altruism, and incentives
Dur, Robert A. J.; Sol, Joeri - 2009
colleagues, which in turn creates co-worker altruism. We study how financial incentives for productive activities can improve or …
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Incentives and the sorting of altruistic agents into street-level bureaucracies
Buurman, Margaretha; Dur, Robert A. J. - 2010
-selection and allocation decisions of agents who differ in altruism towards clients. When bureaucrats are paid flat wages, they do … of the altruism distribution. We also show how client composition affects sorting and why street-level bureaucrats often …
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The sustainability of the pay-as-you-go system with falling birth rates
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Cardoso, Pedro - 2002
altruism. A fall in the population growth rate, even to negative values, will imply a reduction of the interest rate and an …
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Low altruism, austerity, and aversion to default : are countries converging to the natural debt limit?
Bohn, Henning - 2013
reflecting low altruism - a discount rate on children's utility greater than the world interest rate - and I examine the … spending on debt and retiree entitlements. In the model, altruism towards children determines bequests, government debt, and … the time-path of consumption. Altruism towards parents influences incentives to default. If altruism is low, voters demand …
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