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The Importance of Emotions for the Effectiveness of Social Punishment

Hopfensitz, Astrid; Reuben, Ernesto - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

anger, ‘social’ emotions like shame and guilt need to be present for punishment to be an effective deterrent of …

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Does Stake Size matter for Cooperation and Punishment?

Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Visser, Martine - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

The effects of stake size on cooperation and punishment are investigated using a public goods experiment. We find that … an increase in stake size does neither significantly affect cooperation nor, interestingly, the level of punishment. …

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Who wants Safer Streets? Explaining Concern for Public Safety in Brazil

Pradhan, Menno; Ravallion, Martin - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001

17-33. Public action to prevent crime is often driven by concerns about public safety. But what generatesthose … concerns ? ]s it crime, or something else ? Using survey data for Brazil, we find that thedesire for greater public safety has …

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Efficiency Gains of a European Banking Union

Schoenmaker, Dirk; Siegmann, Arjen - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

An anticipated benefit of the prospective European Banking Union is stronger supervision of European banks. Another benefit would be enhanced resolution of banks in distress. While national governments confine themselves to the domestic effects of a banking failure, a European Resolution...

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Bidding to give in the Field: Door-to-Door Fundraisers had it right from the Start

Onderstal, Sander; Schram, Arthur J.C.; Soetevent, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

This discussion paper resulted in an article in the Journal of Public Economics (2013). Volume 105, pages 72-85. In a door-to-door fundraising field experiment, we study the impact of fundraising mechanisms on charitable giving. We approached about 4500 households, each participating in either...

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Can European Bank Bailouts work?

Schoenmaker, Dirk; Siegmann, Arjen - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

Cross‐border banking needs cross‐border recapitalisation mechanisms. Each mechanism, however, suffers from the financial trilemma, which is that cross‐border banking, national financial autonomy and financial stability are incompatible. In this paper, we study the efficiency of different...

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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation

Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important … mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this paper we explore the boundary conditions for altruistic punishment to … maintain cooperation by systematically varying the cost and impact of punishment, using a subject pool which extends beyond the …

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The Financial Trilemma

Schoenmaker, Dirk - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

The financial trilemma states that financial stability, financial integration and national financial policies are incompatible. Any two of the three objectives can be combined but not all three; one has to give. This paper develops a model to underpin the financial trilemma. Our findings for...

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On the Nature, Modeling, and Neural Bases of Social Ties

Winden, Frans van; Stallen, Mirre; Ridderinkhof, K. Richard - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

Purpose: This paper addresses the nature, formalization, and neural bases of (affective) social ties anddiscusses the relevance of ties for health economics. A social tie is defined as an affectiveweight attached by an individual to the well-being of another individual ('utilityinterdependence')....

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The Costs and Benefits of Providing Open Space in Cities

Rouwendal, Jan; Straaten, J. Willemijn van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

Although many researchers have investigated the value of open space in cities, few of them have compared them to the costs of providing this amenity. In this paper, we use the monocentric model of a city to derive a simple cost-benefit rule for the optimal provision of open space. The rule is...

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