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Behavioural Responses to Unfair Institutions : Experimental Evidence on Rule Compliance, Norm Polarisation and Trust
Columbus, Simon; Kasper, Matthias; Feld, Lars P.; … - 2023
This study investigates the effects of unfair enforcement of institutional rules on public good contributions, personal and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce rule compliance compared to fair institutions. However,...
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Norms, Emotions, and Culture in Human Cooperation and Punishment : Theory and Evidence
Dhami, Sanjit; Wei, Mengxing - 2023
, culture, and endogenous emotions are the key determinants of contributions and punishments. The emotions of shame, frustration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262745
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A Theoretical Analysis of the Effects of Legislation on Marriage, Fertility, Domestic Division of Labour, and the Education of Children
Cigno, Alessandro - 2021
Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two-stage game-theoretical model. The paper examines the effects of (i) family law (cost of obtaining a divorce, alimony, availability of quasi-marriages such as PACS in France, and civil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316739
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Cross-racial envy and underinvestment in South Africa
Haile, Daniel; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; Verbon, Harrie A. A. - 2006
Trust games are employed to investigate the effect of heterogeneity in income and race on cooperation in South Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261410
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It is a Theft But Not a Crime
Balestrino, Alessandro - 2021
Why do people who normally refrain from committing illegalities become digital pirates? In this paper we use a theoretical model of digital piracy combined with a game-theoretic mechanism of social norm formation to argue that no social stigma is attached to digital piracy because the latter has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316965
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Religious Identity, Trust, Reciprocity, and Prosociality : Theory and Evidence
Dhami, Sanjit; Wei, Mengxing; Mamidi, Pavan - 2022
We use the trust and the dictator games to explore the effects of religious identity on trust, trustworthiness, prosociality, and conditional reciprocity within a beliefs-based model. We provide a novel and rigorous theoretical model to derive the relevant predictions, which are then tested in...
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The scope of cooperation: values and incentives
Tabellini, Guido - 2008
unique equilibrium where legal enforcement remains weak and individual values discourage cooperation. …
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Enforcement of contribution norms in public good games with heterogeneous populations
Reuben, Ernesto; Riedl, Arno - 2009
Economic and social interaction takes place between individuals with heterogeneous characteristics. We investigate experimentally the emergence and informal enforcement of different contribution norms to a public good in homogeneous and different heterogeneous groups. When punishment is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265993
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Culture and cooperation
Gächter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt; Thöni, Christian - 2010
cultural background relative to individual heterogeneity and group-level differences in cooperation. We find that culture has a …-1367), who study cooperation and punishment in sixteen subject pools from six different world cultures (as classified by … substantial influence on the extent of cooperation, in addition to individual heterogeneity and group-level differences identified …
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What lessons for economic development can we draw from the Champagne fairs?
Edwards, Jeremy; Ogilvie, Sheilagh - 2011
The medieval Champagne fairs are widely used to draw lessons about the institutional basis for long-distance impersonal exchange. This paper re-examines the causes of the outstanding success of the Champagne fairs in mediating international trade, the timing and causes of the fairs' decline, and...
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