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How populist democracy promotes market liberalization

Grosjean, Pauline; Senik, Claudia - HAL - 2008

citizens' support for the market by guaranteeing income redistribution to inequality-averse agents. Our identification strategy …

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Vive la Différence: Social Banks and Reciprocity in the Credit Market

Cornée, Simon; Szafarz, Ariane - HAL - 2013

Social banks are financial intermediaries paying attention to non-economic (i.e., social, ethical, and environmental) criteria. To investigate the behavior of social banks on the credit market, this paper proposes both theory and empirics. Our theoretical model rationalizes the idea that...

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Social status and crime

Arbak, Emrah - HAL - 2005

We consider a large population of agents choosing either to engage in a criminal activity or working. Individuals feel varying degrees of selfreproach if they commit criminal acts. In addition, they are concerned with their social status in society, based on others' perceptions of their values....

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Changing Identity: The Emergence of Social Groups

Horst, Ulrich; Kirman, Alan; Teschl, Miriam - HAL - 2006

Homo Economicus has progressed from an atomistic and self-interested individual in standard economics to a socially embedded agent in modern economics who is endowed with a particular social identity or with specific preferences for the latter. While this vision makesthe economic agent more...

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Comparing Inequality Aversion across Countries When Labor Supply Responses Differ

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk; … - HAL - 2013

margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same data, inequality aversion is measured as the degree of redistribution …

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Trust and the Welfare State: The Twin Peaks Curve

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Sangnier, Marc - HAL - 2014

We show the existence of a twin peaks relation between trust and the size of the welfare state that stems from two opposing forces. Uncivic people support large welfare states because they expect to benefit from them without bearing their costs. But civic individuals support generous benefits...

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Living in the garden of Eden: Mineral resources foster individualism

Couttenier, Mathieu; Sangnier, Marc - HAL - 2010

. Measuring individualism and the demand for redistribution by questions of the General Social Survey (GSS), we show that: (i …) individuals living in states with mineral resources are more individualistic and support less redistribution by the government … ; (ii) the higher the number of mines in a states, the lower the support for governmental redistribution and the higher the …

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Compensating the dead? Yes we can!

Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2010

An early death is, undoubtedly, a serious disadvantage. However, the compensation of short-lived individuals has remained so far largely unexplored, probably because it appears infeasible. Indeed, short-lived agents can hardly be identified ex ante, and cannot be compensated ex post. We argue...

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How does party fractionalization convey preferences for redistribution in parliamentary democracies?

Amable, Bruno; Gatti, Donatella; Guillaud, Elvire - HAL - 2008

In this paper, we highlight the link between the political demand and social policy outcome while taking into account the design of the party system. The political demand is measured by individual preferences and the design of the party system is defined as the extent of party fractionalization....

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The political economy of job protection and income redistribution

Amable, Bruno; Gatti, Donatella - HAL - 2005

alternative institutional options: the degree of labour market flexibility and the intensity of redistribution. We show that the … (positive flexibility versus positive redistribution). …

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