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Reciprocity can be a powerful motivation for human behaviour. Scholars argue that it is relevant in the context of private provision of public goods. We examine whether reciprocity can resolve the associated coordination problem. The interaction of reciprocity with cost-sharing is critical....
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Is competition perceived as a fair procedure? We report data from laboratory experiments where a powerful buyer can trade with one of several sellers. Sellers who feel shortchanged can engage in counterproductive behavior to punish the buyer. We find that the same unfavorable terms of trade...
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Markets are ubiquitous in our daily life and, despite many imperfections, they are a great source of human welfare …. Nevertheless, there is a heated recent debate on whether markets erode social responsibility and moral behavior. In fact …, competitive pressure on markets may create strong incentives for unethical practices (like using child labor) to increase …
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Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors. Preferences were heterogeneous, ranging from...
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In the nineties, average firm size decreased, organisations decentralized, and workers preferences shifted from large to small firms. Our model identifies the economic forces behind this trend. Small firms with little capital at risk are subject to risk-shifting. They realize more of their...
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Are competitive mechanisms perceived as just sources of economic inequality? Perceptions of fairness violations can have severe economic consequences, as they may cause counterproductive behavior such as rulebook slowdowns or quality shading. To analyze fairness perceptions associated with...
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Many information structures generate correlated rather than mutually independent signals, the news media being a prime example. This paper shows experimentally that in such contexts many people neglect these correlations in the updating process and treat correlated information as independent. In...
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This paper studies the stability of socially responsible behavior in markets. We develop a laboratory product market in …
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. First, we discuss to which extent competition can emerge in digital markets and show which forms it can take. In particular … competition in platform markets. Second, we analyse competition policy issues and discuss how rules designed for standard markets … can perform in two-sided markets. We show that multi-sided externalities create new opportunities for anti …
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This paper studies the impact of a key feature of competitive markets on moral behavior: the possibility that a … on the effect of markets on morals. …
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