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Greedy and selfish? : differences in fairness preferences of prospective lawyers and managers
Mertins, Vanessa; Warning, Susanne - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung : ZfP 28 (2014) 4, pp. 410-431
The question of whether lawyers and managers behave selfishly or fairly has inspired discussion for a long time. Empirical evidence, however, is sparse. Using data from an experiment with 359 law and business administration students, we investigate this question empirically and provide first...
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Greedy and selfish? Differences in fairness preferences of prospective lawyers and managers
Mertins, Vanessa; Warning, Susanne - In: Zeitschrift fuer Personalforschung. German Journal of … 28 (2014) 4, pp. 410-433
The question of whether lawyers and managers behave selfishly or fairly has inspired discussion for a long time. Empirical evidence, however, is sparse. Using data from an experiment with 359 law and business administration students, we investigate this question empirically and provide first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960450
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Chapter 10. Lab in the Field : Measuring Preferences in the Wild
Gneezy, U.; Imas, A. - 2017
In this chapter, we discuss the “lab-in-the-field” methodology, which combines elements of both lab and field experiments in using standardized, validated paradigms from the lab in targeting relevant populations in naturalistic settings. We begin by examining how the methodology has been...
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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth
Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006
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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Chapter 21 Experimental Study of Law
Camerer, Colin; Talley, Eric - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 2, (pp. 1619-1650). 2007
This chapter surveys literature on experimental law and economics. Long the domain of legally minded psychologists and criminologists, experimental methods are gaining significant popularity among economists interested in exploring positive and normative aspects of law. Because this literature...
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Tastes, castes, and culture : the influence of society on preferences
Fehr, Ernst; Hoff, Karla Ruth - 2011
Economists have traditionally treated preferences as exogenously given. Preferences are assumed to be influenced by neither beliefs nor the constraints people face. As a consequence, changes in behaviour are explained exclusively in terms of changes in the set of feasible alternatives. Here we...
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Tastes, castes, and culture : the influence of society on preferences
Fehr, Ernst; Hoff, Karla Ruth - 2011
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What's the Good of the Market? An Essay on Michael Sandel's What Money Can't Buy
Besley, Timothy - In: Journal of Economic Literature 51 (2013) 2, pp. 478-95
This essay will discuss the criticisms of the economic approach to markets offered by Michael Sandel’s What Money Can’t Buy. After reviewing the main arguments, the essay looks at these from three main angles. First, it relates them to different traditions of thinking about markets...
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Distributive and reciprocal fairness: What can we learn from the heterogeneity of social preferences?
Kamas, Linda; Preston, Anne - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 3, pp. 538-553
This study evaluates people’s concerns for distributive fairness (equality of outcomes and payoffs to those worse …-off) and reciprocal fairness (receiving what one is due based on one’s past actions) using dictator, ultimatum, and trust games … distributive fairness, we identify positive offers as first movers in both games as evidence of expectations of reciprocity by …
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Are most people consequentialists?
Johansson-Stenman, Olof - In: Economics Letters 115 (2012) 2, pp. 225-228
Welfare economics relies on consequentialism even though many philosophers have questioned this assumption. Survey evidence, based on a representative sample in Sweden, is presented here suggesting that most people’s ethical perceptions are consistent with consequentialism.
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