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Ethical Foundations of Financial Regulation
Kane, Edward J. - 1997
and efficiency across society as a whole. Agency-cost theory recognizes that incentive conflicts and coordination problems … one sector of society at the expense of another. Each rationale sets different goals and assigns responsibiliy for …
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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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A Little Good Is Good Enough : Ethical Consumption, Cheap Excuses, and Moral Self-Licensing
Engel, Jannis - 2017
We explore the role of cheap excuses in product choice. If a product improves upon one ethically relevant dimension, agents may care less about other, completely independent ethical facets of the product. This ‘static moral self-licensing' would extend the logic of the well studied moral...
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Integrating Ethical Values and Economic Value to Steer Progress in Artificial Intelligence
Korinek, Anton - 2019
Economics and ethics both offer important perspectives on our society, but they do so from two different viewpoints … - the central focus of economics is how the price system in our economy values resources; the central focus of ethics is the … moral evaluation of actions in our society. The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) forces humanity to confront new areas …
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'Morality and Political Economy' from the Vantage Point of Economics
Enke, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This article calls for a greater integration of moral psychology and political economy. While these disciplines were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512133
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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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Self-Esteem, Moral Capital, and Wrongdoing
Dal Bó, Ernesto - 2008
We present an infinite-horizon model of moral standards where self-esteem and unconscious drives play key roles. In the model, an individual receives random temptations (such as bribe offers) and must decide which to resist. Individual actions depend both on conscious intent and a type...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464139
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Do Leaders Affect Ethical Conduct?
D'Adda, Giovanna - 2014
We study whether leaders influence the unethical conduct of followers. To avoid selection issues present in natural environments, we use a laboratory experiment in which we form groups and assign leadership roles at random. We study an environment in which groups compete, with dishonest behavior...
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Randomizing Religion : The Impact of Protestant Evangelism on Economic Outcomes
Bryan, Gharad T. - 2018
To test the causal impact of religiosity, we conducted a randomized evaluation of an evangelical Protestant Christian values and theology education program that consisted of 15 weekly half-hour sessions. We analyze outcomes for 6,276 ultra-poor Filipino households six months after the program...
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Regulation and Supervision : An Ethical Perspective
Kane, Edward J. - 2008
This essay shows that government credit-allocation schemes generate incentive conflicts that undermine the quality of bank supervision and eventually produce banking crisis. For political reasons, most countries establish a regulatory culture that embraces three economically contradictory...
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