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group's overall welfare (James S. Coleman, 1990). Norms require enforcement with a system of sanctions that penalize … deviations from acceptable behavior (George C. Homans, 1961). Formal sanctions include fines or restrictions implemented by a … legal system or private individuals that impose costs of money and time on the offender. However, informal sanctions such as …
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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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punishment in a social dilemma. Emotional reaction to free-riding incites individuals to apply sanctions when they are available …. The application of sanctions activates a "virtuous emotional circle" that accompanies cooperation. Emotionally aroused …
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Experimental studies of social dilemmas have shown that while the existence of a sanctioning institution improves cooperation within groups, it also has a detrimental impact on group earnings in the short-run. Could the introduction of pre-play threats to punish have enough of a beneficial...
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prenante ou en cas d'appel des décisions de l'AMF. Dans ce dernier cas, les juges confirment majoritairement les sanctions …
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Sacred values are different from secular values in that they are often associated with violations of the cost-benefit logic of rational choice models. Previous work on sacred values has been largely limited to religious or territorial conflicts deeply embedded in historical contexts. In this...
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with the invariant method. These effects are not present in a simple search model in which individuals are influenced by …
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We simulate a closed rental housing market with search and matching frictions, in which both landlord and tenant agents … search accepting residences based on their idiosyncratic tastes for housing and a disagreement point derived from information … on the distribution of offers. The steady state to which the simulation evolves shows price dispersion, nonzero search …
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We set a framework where an individual has to choose one among a set of spatially distributed activities. The individual knows the price of each activity, as well as the distance to reach it. She has either full or zero information about each activity's quality. Qualities are modeled by i.i.d....
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to as a fiscal externality. Using both a calibrated structural job search model and a "suffcient statistics" method that …
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