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We provide the first theoretical analysis of altruism in networks. Agents are embedded in a fixed, weighted network and …
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First, we present what is called the Theory of Psychological Preferences (altruism, rational reciprocity...) through … Segal and Sobel (2007) for strategical ones. Second, we characterize the potential relevance of such a theory to define a … the micro'demands of the psychological preference theory with the standard macro'ones. Finally, we show that polycentered …
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dynamics, introducing fertility choice in macro-dynamic models. In this paper, we go one step further highlighting also the … link with pollution. We develop a simple overlapping generations model with paternalistic altruism according to wealth and …
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First, we present what is called the Theory of Psychological Preferences (altruism, rational reciprocity...) through … Segal and Sobel (2007) for strategical ones. Second, we characterize the potential relevance of such a theory to define a … the micro'demands of the psychological preference theory with the standard macro'ones. Finally, we show that polycentered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325726
This paper presents an overlapping generations model with altruistic consumers, in which pension funds, by holding a signi...cant share of capital assets, produce non competitive behavior. We study the consequences of such behavior on capital accumulation and welfare in the long run when...
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We analyze the relationship between imperfect competition and capital accumulation in a dual economy, with traditional and modern sectors and two types of agents (workers and capitalists). Workers allocate their time endowment between the two sectors. Capitalistsaccumulate wealth in the modern...
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We analyze the relationship between imperfect competition and capital accumulation in a dual economy, with traditional and modern sectors and two types of agents (workers and capitalists). Workers allocate their time endowment between the two sectors. Capitalists accumulate wealth in the modern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750529
. In particular, these tests provide a way to compare the degree of altruism of the different donors. …
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This paper develops a quantitative Markovian overlapping generations model with altruistic individuals and incomplete financial markets in order to analyze the long-run distributional implications of two hypothetical public social security policy changes, made in response to impending future...
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This paper analyzes the interaction between migrants income and remittances and between remittancesand the labor supply of residents. The model is cast as a two-period game with imperfect informationabout the residents' real economic situation. Residents subject to a good economic situation may...
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