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Fear, Trust and Demand for Regulation: Evidence from the Covid-19 Pandemic in Russia
Borisova, Ekaterina; Frye, Timothy; Schoors, Koen; … - 2022
attention to fear. We test how fear and trust shape demand for government regulation by drawing on especially precise measures … fear of contracting the virus is directly related to greater demand for regulation. In addition, the impact of trust is … conditional on the level of fear. Higher interpersonal trust is related to lower demand for Covid-19 regulation, while higher …
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The development of egalitarianism, altruism, spite and parochialism in childhood and adolescence
Fehr, Ernst; Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias - 2011
We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, altruistic, or spiteful. Varying the allocation recipient as either an in-group or an out-group...
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Social relations and relational incentives
Dur, Robert; Tichem, Jan - 2012
this end we develop a simple dynamic principal-agent model where both players may have feelings of altruism or spite toward …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282065
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Spite vs. risk: explaining overbidding
Kirchkamp, Oliver; Mill, Wladislaw - 2019
In this paper we use an experiment to compare a theory of risk aversion and a theory of spite as an explanation for … spite can be used to rationalize deviations from risk neutral equilibrium bids in auctions. We exploit that equilibrium …. Indeed, we find that spite is a more convincing explanation for bidding behavior for the second-price all-pay auction. Not …
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Spite in Litigation
Mill, Wladislaw; Stäbler, Jonathan - 2023
settlement requests are higher for more spiteful participants. The relative increase in litigation expenditures due to spite is …
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Is the Severity of the Penalty an Effective Deterrent? A Strategic Approach for the Crime of Tax Evasion
Chiarini, Bruno; Marzano, Elisabetta - 2016
In order to analyze the severity of sentencing, and to show how the probabilistic interpretation of strategic behavior can be tricky, this paper uses the crime strategic model (inspection game) proposed by Tsebelis. This model shows that any attempts to increase the severity of punishment will...
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Legal Uncertainty as a Welfare Enhancing Screen
Lang, Matthias - 2016
threshold of legality is uncertain. I show that this legal uncertainty raises welfare. Legal uncertainty changes deterrence in …
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Payment Evasion
Buehler, Stefan; Halbheer, Daniel; Lechner, Michael - 2015
This paper models payment evasion as a source of profit by letting the firm choose the purchase price and the fine imposed on detected payment evaders. For a given price and fine, the consumers purchase, evade payment, or choose the outside option. We show that payment evasion leads to a form of...
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Politicians: be killed or survive
Frey, Bruno S.; Torgler, Benno - 2008
In the course of history, a large number of politicians have been assassinated. Rational choice hypotheses are developed and tested using panel data covering more than 100 countries over a period of 20 years. Several strategies, in addition to security measures, are shown to significantly reduce...
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Deterrence through word of mouth
Rincke, Johannes; Traxler, Christian - 2009
The deterrent effect of law enforcement rests on the link between the actual and the perceived detection risk. We study the role of word of mouth for this linkage. Our approach makes use of micro data on compliance with TV license fees allowing us to distinguish between households who have been...
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