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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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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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Too lucky to be true : fairness views under the shadow of cheating
Bortolotti, Stefania; Soraperra, Ivan; Sutter, Matthias; … - 2017
The steady increase in inequality over the past decades has revived a lively debate about what can be considered a fair distribution of income. Public support for the extent of redistribution typically depends on the perceived causes of income inequality, such as differences in effort, luck, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011674398
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Moral Nimby-ism? : understanding societal support for monetary compensation to plasma donors in Canada
Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2018
plasma donors in Australia and the United States than in Canada, but the differences were small, suggesting a weak role for …, although most of the plasma in Canada does come from compensated American donors. Among those in favor of legalizing … compensation for donors (in Canada as well as in Australia), the highest-rated motive was to guarantee a higher domestic supply …
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Justice under uncertainty
Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno - 2013
An important element for the public support of policies is their perceived justice. At the same time most policy … their own risk preferences. The observed allocations are consistent with four different views of justice under uncertainty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009766681
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Unemployment in a just economy
Komlos, John - 2016
This paper is based on the ideas of political philosopher John Rawls who suggested that a just society is one which would be created behind a "veil of ignorance", that is to say, without knowing where one would end up in the society's distribution of talent and other attributes valued in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497927
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Do leaders affect ethical conduct?
D'Adda, Giovanna; Darai, Donja; Weber, Roberto A. - 2014
We study whether leaders influence the unethical conduct of followers. To avoid selection issues present in natural environments, we use a laboratory experiment in which we form groups and assign leadership roles at random. We study an environment in which groups compete, with dishonest behavior...
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Can moral reminders curb corruption? : evidence from an online classroom experiment
Claus, Corinna; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Krieger, Tim - 2022
Using an incentivized online classroom experiment, we assess the effectiveness of deontological vs. consequentialist moral reminders. Participants were told that they are the responsible public servant for acquiring a Covid-19 vaccine, providing them with the opportunity to generate some extra...
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The ethical content of the economic analysis of disasters : price gouging and post-disaster recovery
Noy, Ilan; Noy, Shakked - 2016
ethics that are behind the economic analysis of disasters. Given this absence, we believe that a better understanding of the … ways in which the discipline approaches the topic of disasters and its ethics is gained not by examining the multitude of …
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What crisis? : taking stock of management researchers' experiences with and views of scholarly misconduct
Hoover, Gary A.; Hopp, Christian - 2017
This research presents the results of a survey regarding scientific misconduct elicited from a sample of 1,215 management researchers. We find that misconduct (research that was either fabricated or falsified) is not encountered often by reviewers nor editors. Yet, there is a strong prevalence...
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