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Economic Incentives and Social Preferences: A Preference-based Lucas Critique of Public Policy

Bowles, Samuel; Reyes, Sandra Polanía - CESifo - 2009

Policies and explicit private incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies indicates that this crowding out effect is...

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Awards as Signals

Frey, Bruno S.; Neckermann, Susanne - CESifo - 2010

a unique cross-country data set, we suggest that awards serve as signals. Awards are more prevalent the more difficult …

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Barter, Liquidity and Market Segmentation

Prendergast, Canice; Stole, Lars - CESifo - 2001

This paper explores the private and social benefits from barter exchange in a monetized economy. We first prove a no …-monetary exchange avoids this limitation and enhances trade by (1) generating liquidity and (2) by segmenting the market place into low …-demand and high-demand customers in a manner which is impossible with pure monetary exchange. We provide comparative statics …

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Unequal Bequests

Francesconi, Marco; Pollak, Robert A.; Tabasso, Domenico - CESifo - 2015

Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally recognized, with one-third of parents with wills planning to divide their estates unequally among...

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Strategic Choices for Redistribution and the Veil of Ignorance: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Gerber, Anke; Nicklisch, Andreas; Voigt, Stefan - CESifo - 2013

We provide experimental evidence on the emergence of redistributive societies. Individuals first vote on redistribution by feet and then learn their productivity and invest. We vary the individuals’ information about their productivities at the time when they choose a distribution rule and...

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Courts in a Transition Economy: Case Disposition and the Quantity-Quality Tradeoff in Bulgaria

Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina; Grajzl, Peter; Slavov, Atanas - CESifo - 2015

The lack of effective judiciary in post-socialist countries has been a pervasive concern and successful judicial reform an elusive goal. Yet to date, little empirical research exists on the functioning of courts in the post-socialist world. We draw on a new court-level panel dataset from...

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Efficient Coordination in Weakest-Link Games

Riedl, Arno; Rohde, Ingrid M. T.; Strobel, Martin - CESifo - 2011

Existing experimental research on behavior in weakest-link games shows overwhelmingly the inability of people to coordinate on the efficient equilibrium, especially in larger groups. We hypothesize that people will be able to coordinate on efficient outcomes, provided they have sufficient...

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Minimum Participation Rules for the Provision of Public Goods

Gerber, Anke; Neitzel, Jakob; Wichardt, Philipp Christoph - CESifo - 2012

This paper considers the endogenous formation of an institution to provide a public good. If the institution governs only its members, players have an incentive to free ride on the institution formation of others and the social dilemma is simply shifted to a higher level. Addressing this...

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Partial Coercion, Conditional Cooperation, and Self-Commitment in Voluntary Contributions to Public Goods

Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2011

In this paper we experimentally investigate whether partial coercion can in combination with conditional cooperation increase contributions to a public good. We are especially interested in the behavior of the non-coerced populations. The main finding is that in our setting conditional...

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Inside Post-Socialist Courts: The Determinants of Adjudicatory Outcomes in Slovenian Commercial Disputes

Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina; Grajzl, Peter; Zajc, Katarina - CESifo - 2014

Despite the judiciary’s central role in the capitalist market system, micro-level empirical analyses of courts in post-socialist countries are remarkably rare. This paper draws on a unique hand-collected dataset of commercial claims filed at Slovenian courts to examine the determinants of two...

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