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We consider alternative methods of measuring the competitiveness of a majoritarian electoral system in the context of an analysis of Indian State elections. Our analysis highlights a number of weaknesses in the construction and interpretation of commonly used measures such as the effective...
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We theoretically analyse the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and tax avoidance of an oligopolistic firm. The firm maximises a weighted sum of profits and a CSR objective which depends on output and the firm's contribution to public good provision, i.e. tax payments....
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This paper considers family formation and reciprocity-based cooperation in the form of sharing of earnings-risk. While risk sharing is one benefit to marriage it is also limited by divorce risk. With search in the marriage market there may be multiple equilibria diering not only in divorce rates...
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Exchange of risks is considered here as a transferable-utility cooperative game. When the concerned agents are risk averse, there is a core imputation given by means of shadow prices on state-dependent claims. Like in finance, a risk can hardly be evaluated merely by its inherent statistical...
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We investigate whether growth in consumer income causes an increased willingness to pay to mitigate negative externalities from consumption. Correlational field evidence suggests a positive relationship between income and social responsibility. To investigate a causal link, we conduct a...
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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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This paper studies how individual characteristics, institutions, and their interaction influence moral decisions. We … validate a moral paradigm focusing on the willingness to accept harming third parties. Consequences of moral decisions are real …. We explore how moral behavior varies with individual characteristics and how these characteristics interact with market …
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This paper studies the impact of a key feature of competitive markets on moral behavior: the possibility that a … social norms of moral behavior for limiting the power of the replacement excuse, our paper informs the long-standing debate …
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interaction, as a side effect, erodes moral values. An encompassing understanding of the virtues and vices of markets, including … their possible impact on moral values, is necessary to make informed decisions on the spheres in society where the … erodes moral values." Although we replicate their main treatment effect, we show that additional treatments are necessary to …
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Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Philanthropy or other Corporate Social Responsibility policies. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives - that take the form...
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