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Sanctioning and Trustworthiness across Ethnic Groups: Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan
Bartos, Vojtech; Levely, Ian - 2018
We show how sanctioning is more effective in increasing cooperation between groups than within groups. We study this using a trust game among ethnically diverse subjects in Afghanistan. In the experiment, we manipulate i) sanctioning and ii) ethnic identity. We find that sanctioning increases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931929
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Self-Confidence and Reactions to Subjective Performance Evaluations
Bellemare, Charles; Sebald, Alexander - 2018
Subjective performance evaluations are commonly used to provide feedback and incentives to workers. However, such evaluations can generate significant disagreements and conflicts, the severity of which may be driven by many factors. In this paper we show that a workers’ level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932075
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Rules, Preferences and Evolution from the Family Angle
Cigno, Alessandro - 2021
This paper reviews the literature concerning the evolution of cultural traits in general and preferences in particular, and the emergence and persistence of rules or norms, from a family per-spective. In models where every new person is effectively the clone of an existing one (either a parent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012657932
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Climate Change Risk, and Human Behavior: Theory and Evidence
Dhami, Sanjit; Hajimoladarvish, Narges; Mamidi, Pavan - 2023
A group of decision makers simultaneously make contributions towards a green fund that reduces the future probability of a climate catastrophe. We derive the theoretical predictions of the effects on contributions arising from `behavioral parameters' such as loss aversion and present-bias;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469629
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Self-Confidence and Reactions to Subjective Performance Evaluations
Bellemare, Charles - 2019
Subjective performance evaluations are commonly used to provide feedback and incentives to workers. However, such evaluations can generate significant disagreements and conflicts, the severity of which may be driven by many factors. In this paper we show that a workers’ level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892258
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Rules, Preferences and Evolution from the Family Angle
Cigno, Alessandro - 2021
This paper reviews the literature concerning the evolution of cultural traits in general and preferences in particular, and the emergence and persistence of rules or norms, from a family per-spective. In models where every new person is effectively the clone of an existing one (either a parent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216769
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Awards in economics: towards a new field of inquiry
Frey, Bruno S.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2009
Awards play a large role in the economics profession, which is documented by the large variety and number of awards …. However, little scientific attention has been devoted to them. This paper documents the prevalence of awards in the economics … profession and analyzes the number and type of awards received by the 1,200 leading economists included in Who's Who in Economics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264531
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Please Bring Me the New York Times - On the European Roots of Richard Abel Musgrave
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2021
Richard Musgrave was one of the around 200 academic economists who emigrated from Germany when Fascism came to dominate the country. This memorial lecture traces the German and European roots of Richard Musgrave's oeuvre, trying to shed light on his family background as well as on the political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316948
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Globalisation and the Slope of the Phillips Curve
Kohlscheen, Emanuel; Moessner, Richhild - 2021
We study the effects of globalisation on the slope of the New Keynesian Phillips curve for CPI inflation, based on a broad panel of 35 countries and controlling for possibly non-linear exchange rate effects. We find that the output gap generally has a significant positive effect on inflation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013322779
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Energy Efficiency in General Equilibrium with Input-Output Linkages
Blackburn, Christopher J. - 2020
Industrial activity periodically experiences breakthrough innovations in energy efficiency, but the estimated impacts of these innovations on aggregate energy use are highly varied. We develop a general equilibrium model to investigate whether this variation is determined by the structure of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844213