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Are Happy People Ethical People? Evidence from North America and Europe

Harvey S. James Jr. - EconWPA - 2003

This paper contributes to the growing literature on happiness research by examining whether happiness affects the ethical decisions of individuals. First, a recursive model of ethical decision making is developed in which an agent's utility is assumed to be a function of money, ethical...

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Do family choices slow down economic growth?

Taylor, Leon - EconWPA - 2000

Econometric simulations provide no evidence that families in West Virginia encouraged sons to drop out of high school in order to earn income as coal miners, at the net expense of later income that they would have earned with more education. Estimates of the typical family's subjective rate of...

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The Effect of Affect on Economic and Strategic Decision Making

Hermalin, Benjamin E.; Isen, Alice M. - EconWPA - 2000

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Riesgo Moral y Contratos: Cierta Evidencia Experimental

Arévalo, Julián; Ojeda, Jair - EconWPA - 2004

This paper shows one type of asymetric information problems, their theorethical implications, the design of contracts …

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The Development and Implementation of IMF and World Bank Conditionality

Dreher, Axel - EconWPA - 2002

conditions seem to be influenced by contemporaneous World Bank activity. Moreover, the paper tries to explain compliance with … World Bank conditionality as well as interruptions of IMF programs in the recipient countries. Compliance with World Bank …. However, no other political factors seem to influence interruptions and compliance systematically. The paper describes the …

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IMF and Economic Growth: The Effects of Programs, Loans, and Compliance with Conditionality

Dreher, Axel - EconWPA - 2004

endogeneity is accounted for. There is also evidence that compliance with conditionality mitigates this negative effect, while the …

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Asymmetric Information and the Demand for Health Care - the Case of Double Moral Hazard

Schneider, Udo - EconWPA - 2004

by the patient’s compliance. A model of medical treatment is pre-sented in which both the actions of physician and …

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Anticompetitive Contracts in the U.K. Pay-TV Market

Harbord, Author One David; Ottaviani, Author Two Marco - EconWPA - 2002

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Endogenous Games and Mechanisms: Side Payments Among Players

Jackson, Matthew O.; Wilkie, Simon - EconWPA - 2002

We characterize the outcomes of games when players may make binding offers of strategy contingent side payments before the game is played. This does not always lead to efficient outcomes, despite complete information and costless contracting. The characterizations are illustrated in a series of...

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EFFICIENT CONTRACTS FOR CARBON CREDITS FROM REFORESTATION PROJECTS

Kerr, Suzi - EconWPA - 2004

include regenerating indigenous forest would optimally design contracts for trades of the new good, “carbon sink credits”. The … designing contracts. In the context of a simple numerical example I discuss the constraints that the market puts on contracts … designs impose the risk on those most able to address or absorb it. I illustrate the potential gains from sink contracts with …

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