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prosocial behavior. We conduct a large-scale online experiment where we add the possibility of purchasing insurance to safeguard …
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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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This paper estimates a New Keynesian model with new and old behavioral elements. Agents in the model exhibit cognitive discounting, or myopia: they discount variables far into the future at higher rates than typically implied in the benchmark model. We investigate the model under different...
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that the choices of the proposers and the responders are consistent with social identity theory (higher offers and lower …
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We present controlled experimental evidence on how rent extraction by an administrator affects giving to non-profit associations. Holding the price of giving constant, we compare contributions between two conditions: a rent extraction condition, in which an administrator can expropriate a part...
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-consistent policy rules that implement the stochastic first best as long as a future market exists. We apply our theory to carbon …
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In this paper, we study regulation of externalities involving many small-scale polluters, where the damages from …
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externalities via the interest rate. Conditional on differences in the processes determining household earnings for distinct groups … in the population, these savings externalities may contribute to inequality. Working with an open economy heterogenous … earnings processes of British households with university and non-university educated heads entail savings externalities that …
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-best outcomes. We also show there exists a range of subsidy rates that are welfare-enhancing when greenhouse gas externalities are …
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-tier (horizontal) and between-tiers (vertical and diagonal) fiscal externalities. Estimation of an unrestricted income tax reaction …
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