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Altruism and envy in contests : an evolutionarily stable symbiosis

Konrad, Kai A. - 2002

Altruists and envious people who meet in contests are symbionts. They do better than a population of narrowly rational individuals. If there are only altruists and envious individuals, a particular mixture of altruists and envious individuals is evolutionarily stable.

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Present-biased envy, inequality, and growth

Borissov, Kirill; Pakhnin, Mikhail; Wendner, Ronald - 2024

We take into account that envy (relative consumption concerns) is more pronounced in the present than in the future. We … exogenous parameters. Agents' preferences exhibit present-biased envy: agents are naive and care about how their consumption … levels compare to that of others in the current period. Our results suggest that present-biased envy affects both the level …

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Incentives and workers' motivation in the public sector : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, May 2004

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J. - 2004

Civil servants have a bad reputation of being lazy. However, citizens' personal experiences with civil servants appear to be significantly better. We develop a model of an economy in which workers differ in laziness and in public service motivation, and characterise optimal incentive contracts...

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Risk taking, limited liability and the competition of bank regulators

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2001

Limited liability and asymmetric information between an investment bank and its lenders provide an incentive for a bank to undercapitalise and finance overly risky business projects. To counter this market failure, national governments have imposed solvency constraints on banks. However, these...

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Optimum and risk-class pricing of annuities

Sheshinski, Eytan - 2003

When information on longevity (survival functions) is unknown early in life, individuals have an interest to insure themselves against future "risk-class" classification. Accordingly, the First-Best typically involves transfers across states of nature. Competitive equilibrium cannot provide such...

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The signaling role of municipal currencies in local development

Jayaraman, Rajshri; Oak, Mandar - 2003

The last decade has seen the burgeoning of several hundred local community currency institutions in cities across the world. Although residents of these communities claim that local currency promotes local development, how if at all it does so has hitherto been unexplored. This paper argues that...

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Time, risk, precommitment, and adverse selection in competitive insurance markets

Pauly, Mark V. - 2003

This informal paper explores models of competitive insurance market equilibrium when individuals of initially similar apparent risk experience divergence in risk levels over time. The information structure is modeled in three alternative ways: all insurers and insureds know risk at any point in...

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The dead-anyway effect revis(it)ed

Breyer, Friedrich; Felder, Stefan - 2002

In the expected-utility theory of the monetary value of a statistical life, the so-called dead-anyway effect discovered by Pratt and Zeckhauser (1996) asserts that an individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) for small reductions in mortality risk increases with the initial level of risk. Their...

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E-exchange and the boundary between households and organizations

Lindbeck, Assar; Wikström, Solveig - 2002

The new information and communication technology, ICT, induces households to take over tasks from firms and government agencies, using tools and systems provided by these very same organizations. The result is often joint production activities. We argue that the importance of ICT for the...

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Measuring the social discount rate under uncertainty : a methodology and application

Ahsan, Syed; Tsigaris, Panagiotis Demetrios - 2002

It is well recognised that the issue of the social rate of discount applies only to the gains from public investment that accrues to the public sector. When it comes to measurement, however, there is a problem: public investment in infrastructure and the like do not usually yield direct...

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