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Other-Regarding Preferences in General Equilibrium

Dufwenberg, Martin; Heidhues, Paul; Kirchsteiger, Georg; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We study competitive market outcomes in economies where agents have other-regarding preferences. We identify a separability condition on monotone preferences that is necessary and sufficient for one's own demand to be independent of the allocations and characteristics of other agents in the...

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Enlisting Employees in Improving Payroll-Tax Compliance: Evidence from Mexico

Frías, Judith A; Kumler, Todd; Verhoogen, Eric A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Non-compliance of firms with tax regulations is a major constraint on state capacity in developing countries. We focus on an arguably under-appreciated dimension of non-compliance: under-reporting of wages by formal firms to evade payroll taxes. We develop a simple partial-equilibrium model of...

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Are the Welfare State and Distribution Really that Bad for the Economy? Effects of Reciprocal Altruism, Consumer Rivalry and Second Best

van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Democratic countries with substantial inequality and where people believe that success depends on connections and luck induce political support for high tax rates and generous welfare states. Traditional wisdom is that such policies harm the economy, but there is not much evidence that countries...

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Efficiency-Enhancing Signalling in the Samaritan's Dilemma

Lagerlöf, Johan N. M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Suppose an altruistic person - A - is willing to transfer resources to a second person - B - if B comes upon hard times. If B anticipates that A will act in this manner, B will save too little from both agents’ point of view. This is the Samaritan’s dilemma. The logic of the dilemma has been...

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Incentives and Prosocial Behaviour

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We build a theory of prosocial behaviour that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for …

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Donations

Buraschi, Andrea; Cornelli, Francesca - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

public good – here, new productions – to have access to a private good – here, fringe benefits – and by altruism. The results …

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Fiscal Policy with Agents Differing in Altruism and in Ability

Michel, Philippe; Pestieau, Pierre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

social security system and inheritance taxation) in an overlapping generations model with perfect altruism. It generalizes … productivity and altruism. Within such a model wealth is entirely held in the steady-state by the families with the highest degree … of altruism. Under plausible assumptions both public debt and social security are neutral à la Ricardo, while increasing …

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Unequal Bequests

Francesconi, Marco; Pollak, Robert A.; Tabasso, Domenico - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

between 1995 and 2010, 38 percent died intestate (i.e., without wills). Thus, focusing exclusively on the bequest intentions …

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Intermediation by Aid Agencies

Rowat, Colin; Seabright, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper models aid agencies as financial intermediaries that do not make a financial return to depositors, since the depositors' concern is to transfer resources to investor-beneficiaries. This leads to a significant problem of verification of the agencies' activities. One solution to this...

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When warm glow burns: Motivational (mis)allocation in the non-profit sector

Aldashev, Gani; Jaimovich, Esteban; Verdier, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We build an occupational-choice general-equilibrium model of an economy with the non-profit sector financed through private warm-glow donations. Lack of monitoring on the use of funds implies that an increase of funds of the non-profit sector (because of a higher income in the for-profit sector,...

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