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Trust, Happiness, and Pro-Social Behavior

Carattini, Stefano - 2020

This paper combines several large-scale surveys with different identification strategies to shed new light on the determinants of cooperative behavior. We provide evidence indicating that the well-being maximizing level of trust is above the income maximizing level. Higher trust is also linked...

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Social Preferences and the Variability of Conditional Cooperation

Baader, Malte; Gaechter, Simon; Lee, Kyeongtae; Sefton, … - 2022

We experimentally examine how the incentive to defect in a social dilemma affects conditional cooperation. In our first study we conduct online experiments in which subjects play eight Sequential Prisoner’s Dilemma games with payoffs systematically varied across games. We find that few second...

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Effects of Carbon Pricing and Other Climate Policies on CO 2 Emissions

Kohlscheen, Emanuel; Moessner, Richhild; Takats, Elod - 2021

We provide ex-post empirical analysis of the effects of climate policies on carbon dioxide emissions at the aggregate national level. Our results are based on a comprehensive database of 121 countries. As climate policies we examine carbon taxes and emissions trading systems (ETS), as well as...

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Will the Centralisation of Carbon Pricing Revenue in the EU Lead to Laxer Climate Policy?

Fuest, Clemens; Meier, Volker - 2021

We analyse the economic impact of using carbon pricing revenue to fund the EU budget. Such a reform would redistribute from countries with above average carbon intensive production to less carbon intensive countries. Once the reform is implemented, the low carbon countries will prefer a lower...

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Morality, Altruism, and Occupation Choice : Theory and Evidence

Dhami, Sanjit; Wei, Mengxing; Mamidi, Pavan - 2022

and effort choices, in these three jobs, to preferences for altruism and morality that are structurally estimated. The … predictions are tested in pre-registered experiments. We also estimate proxies for altruism/morality from the dictator … corrupt public sector job. The effects of altruism on occupational choice are subtle, but altruism positively influences the …

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The Many Faces of Human Sociality : Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences

Bruhin, Adrian - 2018

behavior over time and across situations. We tackle this task with an experiment and a structural model of preferences that …

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Revisiting the 'Decentralization Theorem' - On the Role of Externalities

Koethenbuerger, Marko - 2021

The Decentralization Theorem (Oates, 1972) is central to the discussion of fiscal federalism. We revisit the role of consumption spillovers in evaluating the merits of (de)centralization. Unlike the general prediction, a higher degree of spillovers may reduce the difference in utility of...

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Pawns and Queens Revisited : Public Provision of Private Goods When Individuals Make Mistakes

Pirttila, Jukka; Tenhunen, Sanna - 2021

This paper analyses the optimal tax policy and public provision of private goods when individuals differ in two respects: income-earning ability and rationality. Publicly provided goods should be overprovided or subsidised, relative to the decentralised optimum, if society's marginal valuation...

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Lying and Reciprocity

Dato, Simon - 2019

important in many interactions, we study a theoretical model on reciprocity where a player's altruism depends on her perception … of the other player’s altruism towards herself. We analyze a sequential two-player contest and vary the second mover … empirically in a large scale online experiment and in the laboratory. In both experiments, the second mover’s lying propensity …

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Optimal Carbon Pricing in General Equilibrium : Temperature Caps and Stranded Assets in an Extended Annual DSGE Model

van der Ploeg, Rick; Rezai, Armon - 2021

The general equilibrium model developed by Golosov et al. (2014), GHKT for short, is modified to allow for additional negative impacts of global warming on utility and productivity growth, mean reversion in the ratio of climate damages to production, labour-augmenting technical progress, and...

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