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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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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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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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This paper develops a regulatory competition model to study whether and how refugee law should be centralized, and what are the consequences for refugees and for host countries. Varying refugee flows across countries lead some destinations to adopt strict measures. The resulting externality...
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I develop a simple dynamic model of reputation-based transactions between a buyer in one country and a supplier in … stricter standard affects the supply of quality goods and indirectly through reputation. I refer to the former effect as the … regulation effect, and to the latter as the reputation effect. I show that, whereas most of the empirical literature has so far …
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. These equilibria share some features with the ones of multi-sided reputation models. …
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This paper explores the dynamics of wage growth in corporate hierarchies. Using panel data techniques, we estimate the causal effect of current and past transitions in reporting level and past earnings growth on components of current earnings and earnings growth using a large panel of US...
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