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Falk, Armin - 2017

Numerous signaling models in economics assume image concerns. These take two forms, as relating either to social image or self-image. While empirical work has identified the behavioral importance of the former, little is known about the role of self-image concerns. We exogenously vary self-image...

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Fighting climate change : the role of norms, preferences, and moral values

Falk, Armin; Andre, Peter; Boneva, Teodora; Anand … - 2021

We document individual willingness to fight climate change and its behavioral determinants in a large representative sample of US adults. Willingness to fight climate change – as measured through an incentivized donation decision – is highly heterogeneous across the population. Individual...

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"It's not about the money. It's about sending a message!" : unpacking the components of revenge

Molńar, András; Chaudhry, Shereen J.; Loewenstein, … - 2020

We examine whether belief-based preferences - caring about what transgressors believe - play a crucial role in punishment decisions: Do punishers want to make sure that transgressors understand why they are being punished, and is this desire to affect beliefs often prioritized over distributive...

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Drivers of Covid-19 vaccinations : vaccine administration and delivery efficiency in the United States

Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2021

dimensions, is broadly consistent with the greasing effects of corruption. While the study uses data from a single nation that is …

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Reforming legislatures : is one house better than two?

Facchini, Giovanni; Testa, Cecilia - 2009

in US states may indeed reduce corruption levels among elected representatives. -- bicameralism ; corruption ; lobbying …

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Do higher government wages reduce corruption? : evidence based on a novel dataset

Le, Van-ha; Haan, Jakob de; Dietzenbacher, Erik - 2013

policy and corruption. Our dataset, as derived from national household or labor surveys, is more reliable than the data on … government wages as used in previous research. When the relationship between government wages and corruption is modeled to vary … with the level of income, we find that the impact of government wages on corruption is strong at relatively low …

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Back to Kyoto? : US participation and the linkage between R&D and climate cooperation

Buchner, Barbara; Carraro, Carlo; Cersosimo, Igor; … - 2002

The US decision not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and the recent outcomes of the Bonn and Marrakech Conferences of the Parties drastically reduces the effectiveness of the Kyoto Protocol in controlling GHG emissions. The reason is not only the reduced emission abatement in the US, but also the...

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The X tax in the world economy

Bradford, David F. - 2004

This paper considers the treatment of multinational business in the system known as an X Tax. The focus is on the choice between origin and destination treatments of transborder transactions. The destination-principle approach sidesteps the transferpricing problem. It remains in the...

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Does drawing down the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve help stabilize oil prices?

Kilian, Lutz; Zhou, Xiaoqing - 2019 - This version: July 9, 2019

We study the efficacy of releases from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) within the context of fully specified models of the global oil market that explicitly allow for storage demand as well as unanticipated changes in the SPR. Using novel identifying strategies and evaluation methods,...

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Macroeconomic effects of disruptions in global food commodity markets : evidence for the United States

De Winne, Jasmien; Peersman, Gert - 2016

shocks on the US economy. As an alternative, we also estimate the consequences of thirteen narratively identified global food …

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