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Human Ethics and Virtues : Rethinking the Homo-Economicus Model

Dhami, Sanjit - 2018

The neoclassical model in economics envisages humans as amoral and self-regarding (Econs). This model, also known as the homo-economicus model, is not consistent with the empirical evidence. In light of the evidence, the continued use of the homo-economicus model is baffling. It also stymies...

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Green Havens and Pollution Havens

Poelhekke, Steven; van der Ploeg, Rick - 2021

We test for pollution haven effects in outward foreign direct investment (FDI) for different sectors using a … country significantly attracts FDI. What is important for these pollution haven effects is not only regulation but also … enforcement of environmental policy. In contrast to earlier results, it is not only footloose industries that display pollution …

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Globalization, Economic Freedom and Human Rights

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars H.R - 2021

Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization …-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity rights significantly and robustly increase with globalization and …

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Impure Prosocial Motivation in Charity Provision : Warm-Glow Charities and Implications for Public Funding

Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2013

We show that warm-glow motives in provision by competing suppliers can lead to inefficient charity selection. In these situations, discretionary donor choices can promote efficient charity selection even when provision outcomes are non-verifiable. Government funding arrangements, on the other...

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Does Instrumental Reciprocity Crowd Out Prosocial Behavior?

Johnsen, Åshild - 2014

In repeated games, it is hard to distinguish true prosocial behavior from strategic instrumental behavior. In particular, a player does not know whether a reciprocal action is intrinsically or instrumentally motivated. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the relationship between...

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Disentangling the Sources of Pro-Social Behavior in the Workplace : A Field Experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2021

-social motivation that have been considered in the literature: action-oriented altruism and output-oriented altruism. To this end we …-oriented altruism. We then compare the latter to effort exerted in an environment where both types of altruistic preferences are … elicited. We find that action-oriented altruism accounts for a significant increase in effort, while there is no additional …

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The Many Faces of Human Sociality : Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences

Bruhin, Adrian - 2016

There is vast heterogeneity in the human willingness to weigh others' interests in decision making. This heterogeneity raises the question how one can parsimoniously model and characterize heterogeneity across several dimensions of social preferences while still being able to predict behavior...

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Generous Sustainability

Gerlagh, Reyer - 2014

I define “generous sustainability” as a combination of two conditions: neither instantaneous maximin income nor attainable maximin income should decrease over time. I provide a formal definition and study applications to an AK economy, a Ramsey economy, and a Climate Economy. Generosity is...

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Playing with the Good Guys - A Public Good Game with Endogenous Group Formation

Brekke, Kjell Arne - 2013

In public good games, voluntary contributions tend to start off high and decline as the game is repeated. If high contributors are matched, however, contributions tend to stay high. We propose a formalization predicting that high contributors will self-select into groups committed to charitable...

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Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility

Planer-Friedrich, Lisa - 2017

We examine the strategic use of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in imperfectly competitive markets. The level of CSR determines the weight a firm puts on consumer surplus in its objective function before it decides upon supply. First, we consider symmetric Cournot competition and show that...

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