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Do Undergraduate Majors or Ph.D. Students Affect Faculty Size?

Becker, William E.; Greene, William H.; Siegfried, John J. - CESifo - 2010

Regression analysis using panel data for 42 colleges and universities over 14 years suggests that the economics faculty size of universities offering a Ph.D. in economics is determined primarily by the long-run average number of Ph.D. degrees awarded annually; the number of full-time faculty...

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"The Way in which an Experiment is Conducted is Unbelievably Important": On the Experimentation Practices of Economists and Psychologists

Ortmann, Andreas - CESifo - 2009

To discuss experimental results without discussing how they came about makes sense when the results are robust to the way experiments are conducted. Experimental results, however, are – arguably more often than not – sensitive to numerous design and implementation characteristics such as the...

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Corporate Philanthropy and Productivity: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2014

Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Philanthropy or other Corporate Social Responsibility policies. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives - that take the form...

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Did the Japanese Patient Follow the Doctor's Orders? Mostly no! A Public Choice Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Schemes in Japan before and after the Earthquake

Rudolph, Sven; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2011

The Great Tôhoku-Earthquake and the following nuclear meltdown in Fukushima called the world’s attention to Japans’ energy and climate policy. Japan is one of the biggest emitters of greenhouses gases in the world and still far away from reaching its Kyoto target. Emissions trading systems...

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Rotten Spouses, Family Transfers and Public Goods

Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - CESifo - 2014

We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker’s rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva’s (1999) result of efficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a...

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Social Relations and Relational Incentives

Dur, Robert; Tichem, Jan - CESifo - 2012

this end we develop a simple dynamic principal-agent model where both players may have feelings of altruism or spite toward …

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Low Altruism, Austerity, and Aversion to Default: Are Countries Converging to the Natural Debt Limit?

Bohn, Henning - CESifo - 2013

reflecting low altruism—a discount rate on children’s utility greater than the world interest rate—and I examine the implications … 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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Provision of a Public Good with Altruistic Overlapping Generations and Many Tribes

Karp, Larry S. - CESifo - 2012

Intergenerational altruism and contemporaneous cooperation are both important to the provision of long-lived public …

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On Self-Interest and Greed

Kirchgässner, Gebhard - CESifo - 2014

First the assumption of self-interest as applied in Economics is presented. Here we also discuss areas in which (many) people behave less self- but more other-regarding than traditional economic models assume. Then, greedy behaviour is considered as existing in the political and economic...

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Pocketbook Voting and Social Preferences in Referenda

Meya, Johannes; Poutvaara, Panu; Schwager, Robert - CESifo - 2015

-interest, providing strong evidence for pocketbook voting. However, social preferences like altruism, public good considerations and …

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