Since formal rules can only partially reduce opportunistic behavior, third-party sanctioning to promote fairness is … business and not snitch on others. In a set of fairness games where a third party can punish unfair behavior, but players can …

We study the evolution of the social norm of "cooperation" in a dynamic environment. Each agent lives for two periods … completely drives equilibrium play, leading to a social norm of high or low cooperation. In intermediate cases, the impact of … leverage their greater visibility to influence expectations of future agents and overturn social norms of low cooperation. We …

redistribution. We study the dynamic evolution of different economies in which redistributive policies, perceptions of fairness …, inequality and growth are jointly determined. We show how including fairness explains various observed correlations between … inequality, redistribution and growth. We also show how different beliefs about fairness can keep two otherwise identical …

In Fairness versus Welfare, we advance the thesis that social policies should be assessed based entirely on their … effects on individuals' well-being. This thesis implies that no independent weight should be accorded to notions of fairness … (other than many purely distributive notions). We support our thesis in three ways: by demonstrating how notions of fairness …

fairness to their consumers. The theory relies on two psychological assumptions. First, customers care about the fairness of …This paper proposes a theory of price rigidity consistent with survey evidence that firms stabilize prices out of … rigid. Embedded in a simple macroeconomic model, our pricing theory produces nonneutral monetary policy, a short …

fairness and social justice are increasingly voiced by citizens and their governments around the world. Taking a novel "bottom … up" approach to concerns for fairness, we show how these concerns can be formalized in a general and tractable way, and …-related fairness concerns of their citizens. More generally, our findings point to a detailed understanding of real-world perceptions …