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Gaechter, Simon; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2002

In many business transactions, in labor-management relations, in international conflicts, and welfare state reforms claims acquired in the past seem to create strong entitlements that shape current negotiations. Despite their importance, the role of entitlements in negotiations has not received...

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Pro Bono Work and Trust in Expert Fields

Ong, David; Yang, Chun-Lei - CESifo - 2014

A controversy has been simmering in law for at least 30 years about whether pro bono work should be mandatory for lawyers, who now donate 1-3% of their time to the poor. This has centered on the unmet legal needs of the poor, the duty of lawyers, and the contrast with US doctors, who are...

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Intentions and Social Interactions

Amegashie, J. Atsu - CESifo - 2006

In psychological games, higher-order beliefs, emotions, and motives - in addition to actions - affect players’ payoffs. Suppose you are tolerated as opposed to being genuinely accepted by your peers and “friends”. In particular, suppose you are invited to a party, movie, dinner, etc not...

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A Psychological Game with Interdependent Preference Types

Amegashie, J. Atsu - CESifo - 2006

In psychological games, higher-order beliefs, emotions, and motives - in addition to actions - affect players’ payoffs. Suppose you are invited to a party, movie, dinner, etc not because your company is desired but because the inviter would feel guilty if she did not invite you. In all of...

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Measuring Alpha in the Fund Management Industry: Do Female Managers Perform Better?

Babalos, Vassilis; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - CESifo - 2013

This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences …. Fund performance is evaluated against funds’ designated market indices and representative style portfolios. Consistently … with previous studies, no significant differences in performance and risk are found between female and male managed funds …

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A Simple Four Quadrants Model to Monitor the Performance of Local Governments

Ballanti, Danilo; Dispotico, Roberto; Porcelli, Francesco; … - CESifo - 2014

evaluate the performance of local government in the provision of local public services. The model employs a reduced set of …

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Why do Foreign Banks Withdraw from other Countries? A Panel Data Analysis

Hryckiewicz, Aneta; Kowalewski, Oskar - CESifo - 2010

problems in the home country, with a lesser factor being the weak performance of the foreign subsidiary. …

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Fair and Efficient Taxation under Partial Control: Theory and Evidence

Ooghe, Erwin; Peichl, Andreas - CESifo - 2011

There is clear evidence that fairness plays a role in redistribution. Individuals want to compensate others for their … misfortune, while they allow them to enjoy the fruits of their effort. This paper introduces fairness in a tax-benefit scheme … fairness test, whereas the Baltic and Anglo-Saxon countries (including the US) perform worst. Our paper provides a new way to …

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Team or Individual: What Determines Workers' Preferred Bonus Schemes?

Torsvik, Gaute - CESifo - 2011

-performers prefer a payment system that reduces their income; distributional fairness and social emotions. …

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Tax Structure and Government Expenditures under Tax Equity Norms

Koenig, Tobias; Wagener, Andreas - CESifo - 2010

We augment a standard tax model by concerns about tax equity: people get upset when labour is taxed more heavily than capital. Even the slightest concern for tax equity invalidates the common recommendation for small open economies that capital should remain tax-exempt. This holds for exogenous...

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