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We develop a model that relates self-control and conflict identification to cooperation patterns in social dilemmas. As predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger self-control and higher levels of cooperation. This means that there is...
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Land conflicts in developing countries are costly. An important policy goal is to create respect for borders. This often involves mandatory, expensive interventions. We propose a new policy design, which in theory promotes neighborly relations at low cost. A salient feature is the option to...
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Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences …. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has been much slower in the social sciences …, although during the last two decades, the use of lab experiments has accelerated. Nonetheless, there remains considerable …
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This paper explores the impact of credit market on the entrepreneurs and demand for credit in a credit constrained economy and the resultant impact on the capital flows. In standard trade models the capital flows across countries are explained as a result of the rate of return differentials due...
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Theoretical discussion on compensating mechanisms involving the Pareto criterion that address inequality rather than …-trade degree of inequality unchanged between skilled and unskilled workers rather than the absolute income of the losing group. We … discuss the problem of existence of such an inequality-neutral tax rate which generates a positive increment in the after tax …
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This paper explores the implications on trade and wage inequality of introducing financial capital or credit in the …
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This paper attempts to build up a Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model of production and trade where capital is introduced outside the production process as a financial capital or credit as per the classical Ricardian wage fund framework. Stock of credit or financial capital as past savings, finances...
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specialization and trade on growth and inequality for a small developing country. Among other results, we show that a small … is skilled-labor scarce. We also address the effects of such trade opening on wage inequality. …
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critical contemporary issues without the ammunitions of a more complex neo-classical system. Trade pampers inequality all …. Technological progress without physical capital accumulation magnifies inequality in or out of steady state, generating a Picketty …
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in every domain of economic behaviour inequality or relative changes has become a major concern. We propose an inequality …
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