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Homo oeconomicus as the homo moralis' party pooper : heterogenous morality in public good games

Eichner, Thomas; Runkel, Marco - 2024

worsen them, if individuals possess different degrees of morality. We characterize heterogenous Alger-Weibull morality … for individuals with below (above) average morality. Equilibrium public good provision is not increased by morality, as … long as there are homo oeconomicus individuals. An increase in morality of an individual may reduce total provision of the …

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Transparency, specialization and FDI

Razin, Asaf; Tsadḳah, Efrayim - 2004

We develop a simple information-based model of FDI flows. On the one hand, the relative abundance of intangible capital in specialized industries in the source countries, which presumably generates expertise in screening investment projects in the host countries, enhances FDI flows. On the other...

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The effects of mandatory disclosure of supermarket prices

Ater, Itai; Rigbi, Oren - 2018

We study how mandatory online disclosure of supermarket prices affects prices and price dispersion in brick-and-mortar stores. Using data collected before and after a transparency regulation went into effect in the Israeli food retail market, multiple complementary control groups and relying on...

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Rationality in economics : theory and evidence

Dhami, Sanjit S.; Al-Nowaihi, Ali - 2018

We examine the various senses in which economist use the term "rationality" and then outline some of the commonly drawn …

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Organizations, diffused pivotality and immoral outcomes

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2013

This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...

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Universalism : global evidence

Cappelen, Alexander W.; Enke, Benjamin; Tungodden, Bertil - 2022

This paper presents a new set of stylized facts about the global variation in universalism, leveraging hypothetical money allocation tasks deployed in representative samples of 64,000 people from 60 countries. Our data reveal large variation in universalism within and across countries, which...

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Why people oppose trade institutions : on morality, fairness and risky actions

Hauge, Karen E.; Kverndokk, Snorre; Lange, Andreas - 2021 - This version: November 2021

We investigate how moral considerations, background conditions and risk can trigger resistance to implement trading institutions. We provide survey results on moral opposition to trade on several goods and services like body organs, sex services, surrogate mothers, trade with developing nations,...

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Cognitive flexibility or moral commitment? : evidence of anticipated belief distortion

Saccardo, Silvia; Serra-Garcia, Marta - 2020

Do people anticipate the conditions that enable them to manipulate their beliefs when confronted with unpleasant information? We investigate whether individuals seek out the "cognitive flexibility" needed to distort beliefs in self-serving ways, or instead attempt to constrain it, committing to...

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Status inequality, moral disengagement and violence

Falk, Armin - 2017

This paper studies the causal effect of status differences on moral disengagement and violence. To measure violent behavior, in the experiment, a subject can inflict a painful electric shock on another subject in return for money. We exogenously vary relative status in the realm of sexual...

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The (in)elasticity of moral ignorance

Serra-Garcia, Marta; Szech, Nora - 2019

We investigate the elasticity of moral ignorance with respect to monetary incentives and social norm information. We propose that individuals suffer from higher moral costs when rejecting a certain donation, and thus pay for moral ignorance. Consistent with our model, we find significant...

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