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Mixing the Carrots with the Sticks : Third Party Punishment and Reward

Nikiforakis, Nikos; Mitchell, Helen - HAL - 2014

While the opportunity to punish selfish and reward generous behavior coexist in many instances in daily life, in most laboratory studies, the demand for punishment and reward are studied separately from one another. This paper presents the results from an experiment measuring the demand for...

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The Relevance of Social Norms for Economic Efficiency: Theory and its Empirical Test

Alpman, Anil - HAL - 2013

This paper proposes a new formulation of the theory of social norms. The theoretical model explores the interrelation between individuals' income, time-use and consumption decisions on the one hand, and the determinants of their decision to conform or not to social norms on the other. It is...

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A Gendered Approach to Temporary Labour Migration and Cultural Norms. Evidence from Romania

Prelipceanu, Raluca - HAL - 2008

This paper analyses the determinants of the Romanian temporary labour migration during the transition period. First of all, we build a househould level model in order to explain the decision to migrate in a couple. Then, by using a 10% sample of the Romanian 2002 Census we try to assess the...

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The economic analysis of social norms: A reappraisal of Hayek's legacy

Festré, Agnès; Garrouste, Pierre - HAL - 2009

This paper is organized as follows : First we show that the reference to the notion of group selection is coherent with the other parts of Hayek's thought. Second we develop the idea that recent works in terms of the emergence and evolution of social norms corroborate in part Hayek's theses in...

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Household Behavior and Social Norms : A Conjugal Contract Model

Cudeville, Elisabeth; Recoules, Magali - HAL - 2009

We present a model of household behavior to explore the complex interactions between the decision-making process within the household and social norms. The household is viewed as two separate spheres – the female and the male – both linked by a public good and a "conjugal contract" trough...

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Unemployment as a social norm in Germany

Clark, Andrew E.; Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - HAL - 2008

This paper investigates the relationship between the subjective well-being of both the employed and unemployed and regional unemployment rates. While employed men suffer from regional unemployment, unemployed men are significantly less negatively affected. This is consistent with a social-norm...

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Divorce decisions, divorce laws and social norms

Hiller, Victor; Recoules, Magali - HAL - 2010

This article focuses on the three way relationship between change in divorce law, evolution of divorce rate and evolution of the cultural acceptance of divorce. We consider a heterogeneous population in which individuals differ in terms of the subjective loss they suffer when divorced, this loss...

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Typology of stock market offenses in France: An analysis of sanctions by the AMF since 2006

Demerens, Frédéric; Najar, Dorra; Paré, Jean-Louis; … - HAL - 2013

This paper presents a study intended to demonstrate how the Financial Market Authority (AMF) in France uses its regulatory and sanctioning powers with regard to brokers, listed companies and other actors (individuals) in the financial industry during the period 2006-2011. The AMF actions are...

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Missing trader fraud on the emissions market

Frunza, Marius-Cristian; Guegan, Dominique; Thiebaut, … - HAL - 2010

trader fraud on European carbon allowances markets. This fraud occurred mainly between the end of 2008 and the beginning of … 2009. In this paper, we explore the financial mechanisms of the fraud and the impact on the market behaviour as well as the …

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Economic Analysis of Insurance Fraud

Picard, Pierre - HAL - 2012

We survey recent developments in the economic analysis of insurance fraud. The paper first sets out the two main … approaches to insurance fraud that have been developped in the literature, namely the costly state verification and the costly … be deterministic or random, and it can be conditioned on fraud signals perceived by insurers. Under costly state …

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