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Diversification, Dutch Disease, and Economic Growth: Options for Uganda

Gylfason, Thorvaldur; Nganou, Jean-Pascal Nguessa - CESifo - 2014

significant macroeconomic effects and implications for the conduct of fiscal and monetary policy. In this respect, Uganda is no …

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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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Generosity Across Contexts

Davis, Alexander L.; Jehli, Nadja R.; Miller, John H.; … - CESifo - 2015

Extensive research in economics explores generosity in monetary allocations. However, generosity often involves the allocation of non-monetary goods or experiences. Existing evidence suggests that generosity may be higher in such contexts, though no direct comparison exists. Here, we compare...

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Not All Incentives Wash Out the Warm Glow: The Case of Blood Donation Revisited

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Jofre-Bonet, Mireia; Yen, Steven T. - CESifo - 2011

The issue of the nature of the altruism inherent in blood donation and the perverse effects of financial rewards for …

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Fiscal Incidence when both Individual Welfare and Family Structure Matter: The Case of Subsidization of Home-Care for the Elderly

Mou, Haizhen; Winer, Stanley L. - CESifo - 2012

the structure of the family including the altruism of children affect incidence indexes? How should fiscal shifting of the …

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