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Refunding Emission Payments : Output-Based versus Expenditure-Based Refunding

Hagem, Cathrine - 2020

We analyse two mechanism designs for refunding emission payments to polluting firms: output-based refunding (OBR) and expenditure-based refunding (EBR). In both instruments, emission fees are returned to the polluting industry, typically making the policy more politically acceptable than a...

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The Seniority Structure of Sovereign Debt

Schlegl, Matthias - 2019

Sovereign governments owe debt to many foreign creditors and can choose which creditors to favor when making payments. This paper documents the de facto seniority structure of sovereign debt using new data on defaults (missed payments or arrears) and creditor losses in debt restructuring...

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The Bonus-Income Donation Norm

Drouvelis, Michalis - 2019

the effects by income source can be explained by social norms. Our first experiment induces random variation in both … earned income and windfall bonuses and shows that only bonuses increases charitable donations. The second experiment uses an … elicited in the second experiment match the donation patterns in the first experiment both overall and across subject …

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Does Online Salience Predict Charitable Giving? Evidence from SMS Text Donations

Perroni, Carlo; Scharf, Kimberly A.; Talavera, Sasha; … - 2021

We explore the link between online salience and charitable donations. Using a unique dataset on phone text donations that includes detailed information on the timing of cash gifts to charities, we link donations to time variation in online searches for words that appear in those charities’...

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Bargaining With Charitable Promises : True Preferences and Strategic Behavior

Lange, Andreas; Schwirplies, Claudia - 2021

We report experimental findings on the role of charitable promises in bargaining settings. We vary the enforceability of such promises within variants of ultimatum games where the proposer suggest a split between himself, the responder and a charitable donation. By reneging on initial pledges,...

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Political Activists as Free-Riders : Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Hager, Anselm - 2020

nation-wide natural field experiment in collaboration with a major European party during a recent national election. In a …

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Recent or Free? An Experimental Study of the Motivations for Pirating Movies

Bourreau, Marc - 2020

disentangle the role of each motivation in consumers' choice, we ran a laboratory experiment with real consumption, a methodology …

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Nudging Enforcers : How Norm Perceptions and Motives for Lying Shape Sanctions

Dimant, Eugen; Gesche, Tobias - 2021

different methodologies (a behavioral experiment and a vignette experiment in Study 1, as well as a norm elicitation experiment … lying behavior or its social disapproval. Importantly, these results hold both in the behavioral experiment and in an add … of the behavioral experiment in Study 1, we subsequently examine how norms are perceived across different transgressions …

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Punishment : and beyond

Frey, Bruno S. - 2009

This paper argues that the Economics of Crime concentrates too much on punishment as a policy to fight crime, which is unwise for several reasons. There are important instances in which punishment simply cannot reduce crime. Several feasible alternatives to punishment exist, such as offering...

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Does Online Fundraising Increase Charitable Giving? A Nationwide Field Experiment on Facebook

Adena, Maja; Hager, Anselm - 2024

experiment across Germany, randomly assigning almost 8,000 postal codes to Save the Children fundraising videos or to a pure …Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? Using the Facebook advertising tool, we implemented a natural field … substitution and measurement issues. We found that (i) video fundraising increased donation revenue and frequency to Save the …

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