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Self-Signaling and Prosocial Behavior : a Cause Marketing Mobile Field Experiment

Dubé, Jean-Pierre - 2015

crowd out a consumer's self-inference of altruism from buying a good bundled with a charitable donation. Alternative … theories of motivation crowding are unable to fit the non-monotonic moments in the data. A structural model of self …

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Public or Private Production of Food Safety : What Do U.S. Consumers Want?

Smith, V. Kerry - 2008

This paper reports estimates of consumers' preferences for plans to improve food safety. The plans are distinguished based on whether they address the ex ante risk of food borne illness or the ex post effects of the illness. They are also distinguished based on whether they focus on a public...

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Altruistic Dynamic Pricing with Customer Regret

Rotemberg, Julio J. - 2009

A model is considered where firms internalize the regret costs that consumers experience when they see an unexpected price change. Regret costs are assumed to be increasing in the size of price changes and this can explain why the size of price increases is less sensitive to inflation than in...

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Behavioral Public Economics : Welfare and Policy Analysis with Non-Standard Decision-Makers

Bernheim, B. Douglas - 2005

This paper has two goals. First, we discuss several emerging approaches to applied welfare analysis under non-standard ("behavioral") assumptions concerning consumer choice. This provides a foundation for Behavioral Public Economics. Second, we illustrate applications of these approaches by...

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Ambiguity on audits and cooperation in a public goods game

Dai, Zhixin; Hogarth, Robin M.; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2014

We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...

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The Effect of Effectiveness : Donor Response to Aid Effectiveness in a Direct Mail Fundraising Experiment

Karlan, Dean - 2014

effectiveness, whereas small prior donors decrease their giving. We motivate the analysis and experiment with a theoretical model … that highlights two predictions. First, larger gift amounts, holding education and income constant, is a proxy for altruism …). Second, those motivated by altruism will respond positively to appeals based on evidence, whereas those motivated by warm …

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What makes an allocation fair? : Some experimental evidence

Andreoni, J.; Brown, P.M.; Vesterlund, L. - Wisconsin Madison - Social Systems - 1999

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Edgeworth and Lindahl-Foley equilibria of a general equilibrium model with private provision of pure public goods

Florenzano, Monique; Mercato, Elena L. Del - HAL - 2006

In this paper, we propose a definition of Edgeworth equilibrium for a private ownership production economy with (possibly infinitely) many private goods and a finite number of pure public goods. We show that Edgeworth equilibria exist whatever be the dimension of the private goods space, and can...

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General equilibrium

Florenzano, Monique - HAL - 2007

Unlike partial equilibrium analysis which study the equilibrium of a particular market under the clause "ceteris paribus" that revenues and prices on the other markets stay approximately unaffected, the ambition of a general equilibrium model is to analyze the simultaneous equilibrium in all...

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Cooperation in Public Goods Experiments: Kindness or Confusion?

Andreoni, J. - Wisconsin Madison - Social Systems - 1993

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