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Let the Market Decide: An Experimental Study of Competition and Fairness

Bartling, Björn; Grieder, Manuel; Zehnder, Christian - CESifo - 2014

inform the debate on the fairness of market outcomes by showing that the use of a competitive procedure can, by itself …

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Crime and Self-Control Revisited: Disentangling the Effect of Self-Control on Risk and Social Preferences

Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - CESifo - 2014

In economic models, risk and social preferences are major determinants of criminal behavior. In criminology, low self-control is considered a fundamental cause of crime. Relating the arguments from both disciplines, this paper studies the relationship between self-control and both risk and...

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Us and Them: Distributional Preferences in Small and Large Groups

Schumacher, Heiner; Kesternich, Iris; Kosfeld, Michael; … - CESifo - 2014

We analyze distributional preferences in games in which a decider chooses the provision of a good that benefits a receiver and creates costs for a group of payers. The average decider takes into account the welfare of all parties and has concerns for efficiency. However, she attaches similar...

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Does Willful Ignorance Deflect Punishment? - An Experimental Study

Bartling, Björn; Engl, Florian; Weber, Roberto A. - CESifo - 2013

This paper studies whether people can avoid punishment by remaining willfully ignorant about possible negative consequences of their actions for others. We employ a laboratory experiment, using modified dictator games in which a dictator can remain willfully ignorant about the payoff...

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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 … the time when they choose a distribution rule and find that there is more redistribution behind a veil of ignorance than … under full information. However, the scope of redistribution is less sensitive towards the degree of uncertainty than …

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Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US: Between Equity and Efficiency

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk; … - CESifo - 2011

Whether observed differences in redistributive policies across countries are the result of differences in social preferences or efficiency constraints is an important question that paves the debate about the optimality of welfare regimes. To shed new light on this question, we estimate labor...

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Preferences for Redistribution and Pensions. What can we Learn from Experiments?

Tausch, Franziska; Potters, Jan; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2010

Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes. Nevertheless, it is still an open question what … people’s preferences are regarding this form of redistribution. This paper reviews experimental evidence on preferences … regarding redistribution and asks what this evidence tells us about preferences for redistribution through pension schemes. We …

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Trading Off Generations: Infinitely Lived Agent Versus OLG

Schneider, Maik T.; Traeger, Christian; Winkler, Ralph - CESifo - 2012

The prevailing literature discusses intergenerational trade-offs in climate change predominantly in terms of the Ramsey equation relying on the infinitely lived agent model. We discuss these trade-offs in a continuous time OLG framework and relate our results to the infinitely lived agent...

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Measuring Health Inequality with Categorical Data: Some Regional Patterns

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank - CESifo - 2013

Much of the theoretical literature on inequality assumes that the equalisand is a cardinal variable like income or wealth. However, health status is generally measured as a categorical variable expressing a qualitative order. Traditional solutions involve reclassifying the variable by means of...

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Energy Taxes and Natural Gas Demand in EU-Countries

Asche, Frank; Osmundsen, Petter; Tveterås, Ragnar - CESifo - 2001

Producers or consumers faced with an increase in taxes are usually able to shift parts of it to other levels in the value chain. We examine who is actually bearing the burden of increased energy taxes in the EU-area - consumers or exporters. Traditional tax incidence theory presumes spot...

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