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Human Ethics and Virtues : Rethinking the Homo-Economicus Model
Dhami, Sanjit - 2018
outlines the evidence for a more inclusive picture of humans in which ethics and morality play a central role. It argues for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926548
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Pleasures of Skill and Moral Conduct
Falk, Armin - 2016
This paper provides controlled experimental evidence that striving for pleasures of skill can have negative moral consequences and causally reduce moral values. Subjects perform an IQ-test. They know that each correctly solved question increases the likelihood of moral transgression. In terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997309
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Pollution, Shadow Economy and Corruption : Theory and Evidence
Biswas, Amit K. - 2013
We study how the shadow economy affects pollution and how this effect depends on corruption levels in public … administration. Production in the shadow economy allows firms to avoid environmental regulation policies; a large informal sector may … be accompanied by higher pollution levels. Our theoretical model predicts that controlling the levels of corruption can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092159
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Corruption, Seigniorage and Growth : Theory and Evidence
Blackburn, Keith; Neanidis, Kyriakos C.; Haque, M. Emranul - 2021
This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance …. Corruption takes the form of the embezzlement of public funds, the effect of which is to increase the government's reliance on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316495
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Constraints on Matching Markets Based on Moral Concerns
Huesmann, Katharina - 2015
Various markets ban or heavily restrict monetary transfers. This is often motivated by moral concerns. However, it appears to be disputable whether the observed restrictions on transfers are the appropriate market design answer to these concerns. Instead of exogenously restricting transfers on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021759
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Homo Moralis : Personal Characteristics, Institutions, and Moral Decision-Making
Deckers, Thomas - 2016
This paper studies how individual characteristics, institutions, and their interaction influence moral decisions. We validate a moral paradigm focusing on the willingness to accept harming third parties. Consequences of moral decisions are real. We explore how moral behavior varies with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994702
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The Great Divergence : A Network Approach
Lindner, Ines - 2016
knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the … individual countries in the course of world development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001168
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Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective : Part 2
Ogilvie, Sheilagh - 2014
This is Part 2 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth. The paper provides a critical scrutiny of a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051272
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Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective : Part 1
Ogilvie, Sheilagh - 2014
This is Part 1 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth. The paper provides a critical scrutiny of a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051273