Similar Search Results

Serra-Garcia, Marta; Szech, Nora - 2019

We investigate the elasticity of moral ignorance with respect to monetary incentives and social norm information. We propose that individuals suffer from higher moral costs when rejecting a certain donation, and thus pay for moral ignorance. Consistent with our model, we find significant...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993589

Pleasures of skill and moral conduct

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2016 - January 2016

As was recognized by Bentham, skillfulness is an important source of pleasure. Humans like achievement and to excel in tasks relevant to them. This paper provides controlled experimental evidence that striving for pleasures of skill can have negative moral consequences and causally reduce moral...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413500

A little good is good enough : ethical consumption, cheap excuses, and moral self-licensing

Engel, Jeroen Jannis; Szech, Nora - 2017

We explore the role of cheap excuses in product choice. If a product improves upon one ethically relevant dimension, agents may care less about other, completely independent ethical facets of the product. This 'static moral self-licensing' would extend the logic of the well-studied moral...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638492

Market and welfare implications of Doha reform scenarios

Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will; Van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique - In: Agricultural trade reform and the Doha Development Agenda, (pp. 333-399). 2006

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003280905

How do agricultural policy restrictions to global trade and welfare differ across commodities?

Lloyd, Peter J.; Croser, Johanna L.; Anderson, Kym - 2009

"For decades the world's agricultural markets have been highly distorted by national government policies, but very … restrictiveness indexes. It then exploits a global agricultural distortions database recently compiled by the World Bank to generate … a sample of 75 countries that together account for more than three-quarters of the world's production of those …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003821245

Global distortions to agricultural markets : new indicators of trade and welfare impacts, 1955 to 2007

Lloyd, Peter J.; Croser, Johanna L.; Anderson, Kym - 2009

"Despite recent reforms, world agricultural markets remain highly distorted by government policies. Traditional … sector policies are generated without a formal model of global markets or even price elasticity estimates. "--World Bank web …