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Sequential versus Simultaneous Contributions to Public Goods: Experimental Evidence
Gaechter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Renner, Elke; … - CESifo - 2009
We report an experiment comparing sequential and simultaneous contributions to a public good in a quasi-linear two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000384
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Asymmetric Obligations
Riedel, Nadine; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - CESifo - 2011
We use a laboratory experiment to investigate the behavioral effects of obligations that are not backed by binding … and asymmetric minimum contribution levels (obligations) in a repeated public goods experiment. The results provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020088
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Justice under Uncertainty
Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2013
choices have uncertain outcomes. We report the results of a first experiment investigating just allocations of resources when … some recipients are exposed to uncertainty. Although, under certainty almost all uninvolved participants distribute … resources equally, they exhibit remarkable heterogeneity in just allocations under uncertainty. Moreover, uninvolved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877816
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Income Segregation and Local Progressive Taxation: Empirical Evidence from Switzerland
Schmidheiny, Kurt - CESifo - 2004
This study investigates spatial segregation of the population in fiscally decentralized urban areas. The theoretical part proposes the progressivity of local income taxes as a new explanation for income segregation. The empirical part studies how income tax differentials across municipalities in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766045
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Consuming your Way to Efficiency: Public Goods Provision through Non-Distortionary Tax Lotteries
Giebe, Thomas; Schweinzer, Paul - CESifo - 2013
We revisit the classical result that financing a pure public good through taxation of private consumption is inefficient. To this standard setup we add a consumption contest in which consumers can win a prize. We show that an appropriately chosen contest—which we call a ‘tax lottery’—can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877710
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Centralized Fiscal Spending by Supranational Unions
Simon, Jenny; Valasek, Justin Mattias - CESifo - 2013
We study fiscal spending by supranational unions, where participation is voluntary and countries bargain over contributions to and the allocation of a central budget. We explore the link between the allocation and nations’ contributions that occurs since bargaining power is endogenous, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877969
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Households, Markets and Public Choice
Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - CESifo - 2014
We develop a model that combines competitive exchange of private commodities across endogenously formed groups with public good provision and global collective decisions. There is a tension between local and global collective decisions. In particular, we show that group formation and collective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010889986
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The Signaling Role of Corporate Social Responsibility
Blumkin, Tomer; Margalioth, Yoram; Sharoni, Adi - CESifo - 2014
We examine the role of CSR as a mechanism for private provision of public goods. We argue that corporations are using CSR to signal high product quality and demonstrate that signaling gives rise to an excessive level of contributions that offsets the positive externality, which causes the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948835
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Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
Gaechter, Simon; Renner, Elke - CESifo - 2014
We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people’s behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948862
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Pocketbook Voting and Social Preferences in Referenda
Meya, Johannes; Poutvaara, Panu; Schwager, Robert - CESifo - 2015
We study the role of self-interest and social preferences in referenda. Our analysis is based on collective purchasing decisions of university students on deep-discount flat rate tickets for public transportation and culture. Individual usage data allows quantifying monetary benefits associated...
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