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Deviant or Wrong? The Effects of Norm Information on the Efficacy of Punishment
Bicchieri, Cristina; Dimant, Eugen; Xiao, Erte - 2021
of social norms and their interplay with weak punishment in the context of a trust game. Across six conditions, we …Research examining the effect of weak punishment on conformity indicates that punishment can backfire and lead to … systematically vary the combination of existence of weak punishment and norm information. Norm information may refer either to what …
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Norms, Emotions, and Culture in Human Cooperation and Punishment : Theory and Evidence
Dhami, Sanjit; Wei, Mengxing - 2023
contributions mechanism with punishment (VCMP). We eliminate ‘dynamic economic linkages’ between the two stages of our ‘modified …’ VCMP to rule out other potential explanations. We use a beliefs-based model, rooted in psychological game theory, to derive … rigorous theoretical predictions that are then tested with pre-registered experiments in China and the UK. Social norms …
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Individual Attitudes Towards Immigration in Aging Populations
Comertpay, Rana - 2019
This research empirically establishes the hypothesis that the process of population aging in a society as a whole affects the attitudes of its members towards immigration. Hence, an aging social environment exerts an effect on the attitudes of individuals towards immigration after accounting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889685
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Does Expert Information Affect Citizens' Attitudes Toward Corona Policies? Evidence from Germany
Fuest, Clemens; Immel, Lea; Neumeier, Florian; Peichl, … - 2021
Information provided by experts is widely believed to play a key role in shaping attitudes towards policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper uses a survey experiment to assess whether providing citizens with expert information about the health risk of COVID-19 and the economic costs...
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Moral Universalism and the Structure of Ideology
Enke, Benjamin - 2019
Throughout the Western world, people's policy preferences are correlated across domains in a strikingly similar fashion. Based on a simple model, we propose that what partly explains the particular internal structure of political ideology is heterogeneity in moral universalism: the extent to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859985
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(Trade) War and Peace : How to Impose International Trade Sanctions
de Souza, Gustavo Henrique Bianco; Li, Haishi; Mei, Yuan; … - 2023
willingness to pay for sanctions against Russia, the most cost-efficient sanction is a uniform tariff on all Russian products of …
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The Sword and the Shield : The Economics of Targeted Sanctions
Ahn, Daniel P. - 2019
How effective are “smart” sanctions in imposing costs on an adversary? We consider this question in a model where a targeted regime may choose to “shield” strategically important firms from harm. Using detailed firm and individual data, we estimate the impact on firm performance from...
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Extraterritorial Trade Sanctions : Theory and Application to the US-Iran-EU Conflict
Janeba, Eckhard - 2022
Under extraterritorial sanctions the sanctioning country extends its policies to trade of third countries with the sanctioned country. A prominent example is former US President Trump’s decision to leave the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), a multilateral agreement with Iran. The...
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The Null Result Penalty
Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher; … - 2022
We examine how the evaluation of research studies in economics depends on whether a study yielded a null result. Studies with null results are perceived to be less publishable, of lower quality, less important, and less precisely estimated than studies with significant results, even when holding...
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Priming Attitudes Towards Immigrants : Implications for Migration Research and Survey Design
Dylong, Patrick; Setzepfand, Paul; Uebelmesser, Silke - 2023
Using data from two representative and large-scale population surveys with more than 4000 participants, we investigate the effect of randomized priming interventions on attitudes towards immigrants. We document robust null effects of these interventions under two experimental settings, across...
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