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What's the Monetary Value of Distributive Justice?

Corneo, Giacomo; Fong, Christina M. - 2021

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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What Makes a Price Fair? An Experimental Study of Transaction Experience and Endogenous Fairness Views

Herz, Holger - 2016

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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Ranking Economists on the Basis of Many Indicators : An Alternative Approach Using RePEc Data

Seiler, Christian - 2012

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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Recent Trends in Co-Authorship in Economics : Evidence from RePEc

Rath, Katharina - 2015

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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Collusive Tax Evasion and Social Norms

Abraham, Martin A. - 2015

is that in a collusive tax evasion game with multiple equilibria social norms act as an equilibrium selection device …

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The Importance of Peers for Compliance with Norms of Fair Sharing

Gaechter, Simon - 2017

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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On the Arbitrariness of Consumption

Whalley, John; Zhang, Shunming - CESifo - 2009

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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On the Arbitrariness of Consumption

Whalley, John - 2009

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Bread and Bullets

Akerlof, George A. - 2016

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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Premature Deaths, Accidental Bequests and Fairness

Fleurbaey, Marc - 2018

While little agreement exists regarding the taxation of bequests in general, there is a widely held view that accidental bequests should be subject to a confiscatory tax. We propose to reexamine the optimal taxation of accidental bequests in an economy where individuals care about what they...

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