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use of the representative German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) that offers data on the individual attitudes toward …, fairness considerations, economic beliefs and several other individual factors drive individual preferences for tax rate … in attitudes toward progressive taxation. Rather, we show that the choice of the favoured tax rate is also driven by …
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This paper proposes a model that can be implemented to estimate the willingness to pay for distributive justice. A formula is derived that allows one to recover the willingness to pay for distributive justice from the estimated coefficients of a probit regression and fiscal data. Using this...
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People's fairness preferences are an important constraint for what constitutes an acceptable economic transaction, yet … play an important role in shaping perceptions of fairness. Buyers used to high market prices, for example, are more likely …-dependent fairness preferences - either based on endogenous fairness reference points or based on shifts in salience - that can account …
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This articles investigates the recent trends in co-authorship in economics. Using data from more than 700.000 journal articles we show that the average number of authors per article has increased over the last years. This process is likely to be continued in the future. In a regression analysis...
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database in economic sciences containing 33 different indicators for more than 30,000 economists. Based on this bibliographic … overall ranking of economists based on RePEc data …
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A burgeoning literature in economics has started examining the role of social norms in explaining economic behavior. Surprisingly, the vast majority of this literature has studied social norms in asocial decision settings, where individuals are observed to act in isolation from each other. In...
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is that in a collusive tax evasion game with multiple equilibria social norms act as an equilibrium selection device …
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We discuss a simple model of choices of joint consumption by a working couple who place maintenance of their marriage (relationship) above all else. Any proposal made by one partner seeking to provide maximal utility to the other so as to preserve the marriage, in the case where preferences of...
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Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...
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We discuss a simple model of choices of joint consumption by a working couple who place maintenance of their marriage (relationship) above all else. Any proposal made by one partner seeking to provide maximal utility to the other so as to preserve the marriage, in the case where preferences of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196324