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incumbent can file a trade dispute to appeal to voters motivated by reciprocity. The incumbent’s ability to initiate a dispute …
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Behavioural economists have come to recognize that reciprocity, the interaction of trust and trustworthiness, is a …
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this Paper is twofold: first, it shows that reciprocity is an important motive for charitable giving, in addition to the … warm-glow motive. Second, the Paper confirms the economic relevance of reciprocity by using field data. This extends the … current body of research on reciprocity, which is almost exclusively confined to laboratory studies. …
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In this Paper we show that a simple model of fairness preferences explains major experimental regularities of common pool resource (CPR) experiments. The evidence indicates that in standard CPR games without communication and without sanctioning possibilities inefficient excess appropriation is...
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respond in-kind to hostile or kind actions. Little is known, however, about: (i) the prevalence of reciprocity in the … population, (ii) individual determinants of reciprocity, (iii) the correlation between positive and negative inclinations within … inclinations, in particular in terms of positive reciprocity. However, there is substantial heterogeneity in the degree of …
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We investigate cross-hour effects in spousal labor supply exploiting independent variation in hours worked generated by the introduction of the short workweek in France in the late 1990s. We find that female and male employees treated by the shorter legal workweek reduce their weekly labor...
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Transferring low tech manufacturing jobs to cheap labour countries is often seen by part of the general public and policy makers as a step into the de-industrialisation of the European economies. However, several recent contributions have shown that the effects on home economies are rarely...
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Foreign activities of MNEs have important effects on home economies. The debate is ambiguous: concerns that foreign investments deplete domestic economies are often coupled with the pride for doing good business in foreign countries. This Paper addresses this question by defining the appropriate...
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Many Western economies have reformed their welfare systems with the aim of activating welfare recipients by increasing welfare-to-work programmes and job search enforcement. We evaluate the three most important German welfare-to-work programmes implemented after a major reform in January 2005...
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This paper analyzes the effects of financial liberalization on growth and volatility at the industry level in a large sample of countries. We estimate the impact of liberalization on production, employment, firm entry, capital accumulation, and productivity, using both de facto and de jure...
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