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The Signaling Role of Corporate Social Responsibility

Blumkin, Tomer; Margalioth, Yoram; Sharoni, Adi - CESifo - 2014

such assertion. Accounting for this offset would call for a decrease in (and potentially elimination of) the subsidy …

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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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Reciprocity Networks and the Participation Problem

Dufwenberg, Martin; Patel, Amrish - CESifo - 2014

Reciprocity can be a powerful motivation for human behaviour. Scholars argue that it is relevant in the context of private provision of public goods. We examine whether reciprocity can resolve the associated coordination problem. The interaction of reciprocity with cost-sharing is critical....

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The Making of Cultural Policy: A European Perspective

Ploeg, Frederick Van der - CESifo - 2005

No good comparable data on sizes of cultural sectors of the countries of Europe exist. Still, local and national governments of Europe spend substantial resources on culture and cultural sectors contribute significantly to employment and national income. After briefly describing special features...

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The Gender Imbalance in Participation in Canadian Universities (1977-2005)

Christofides, Louis; Hoy, Michael; Yang, Ling - CESifo - 2009

university participation has been increasing. We use the Linear Probability and Logit models to investigate the determinants of … explaining the rising level of the university participation rate for women and men. The important variables include a time trend … university degree, tuition fees and real income. The increasing gap between the female and male participation rates (15 …

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The Democratic Window of Opportunity: Evidence from Riots in Sub-Saharan Africa

Aidt, Toke; Leon, Gabriel - CESifo - 2014

We show that drought-induced changes in the intensity of riots lead to moves towards democracy in sub-Saharan Africa …

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Commodity Price Volatility, Democracy and Economic Growth

Arezki, Rabah; Gylfason, Thorvaldur - CESifo - 2011

We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the impact of commodity price volatility on economic growth in a panel of up to 158 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that commodity price volatility leads to a significant increase in non-resource GDP growth in...

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Democracy, Inequality and the Environment when Citizens can Mitigate Privately or Act Collectively

Bernard, Sophie; Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - CESifo - 2010

We study the political economy of the environment in autocratic, weak and strong democracies when individuals can either mitigate the health consequences of domestic pollution privately or reduce pollution collectively through public policy. The setting is that of a small open economy in which...

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Soft Paternalism, Merit Goods, and Normative Individualism

Kirchgässner, Gebhard - CESifo - 2014

Paternalism is an attempt to influence individuals’ decisions for their own benefit, even if there are no third parties involved. This seems to contradict normative individualism, which provides the general orientation to our modern democracies. Soft or libertarian paternalism accepts the...

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War and Democracy

Hess, Gregory D.; Orphanides, Athanasios - CESifo - 1999

This paper presents a general equilibrium model of conflict based on a world populated by representative democracies. At the individual state level, when information regarding a leader's ability to defend the state against unavoidable conflict is va luable to voters, an incumbent leader seeking...

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