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Playing with the good guys : a public good game with endogenous group formation
Brekke, Kjell Arne; Hauge, Karen Evelyn; Lind, Jo Thori; … - 2009
In public good games, voluntary contributions tend to start off high and decline as the game is repeated. If high contributors are matched, however, contributions tend to stay high. We propose a formalization predicting that high contributors will self-select into groups committed to charitable...
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Public discourse and socially responsible market behavior
Bartling, Björn; Valero, Vanessa; Weber, Roberto A.; … - 2020
We investigate the causal impact of public discourse on socially responsible market behavior. We conduct laboratory … market experiments with products that differ in their production costs and social impact, and provide market actors and … impacted third parties with the opportunity to discuss appropriate market behavior. Across two studies that vary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271770
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Is social responsibility a normal good?
Bartling, Björn; Valero, Vanessa; Weber, Roberto A. - 2018
responsibility. To investigate a causal link, we conduct a laboratory market experiment in which firms and consumers can exchange …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011919340
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Do markets erode social responsibility?
Bartling, Björn; Weber, Roberto A. - 2013
This paper studies the stability of socially responsible behavior in markets. We develop a laboratory product market in … impact in the market, reflected both in the composition of product types and in a price premium for socially responsible … products. Socially responsible behavior in the market is generally robust to varying market characteristics, such as increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212675
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Corporate philanthropy and productivity : evidence from an online real effort experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010347336
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Environmental policy with green consumerism
Ambec, Stefan; De Donder, Philippe - 2020
Is green consumerism beneficial to the environment and the economy? To shed light on this question, we study the political economy of environmental regulations in a model with neutral and green consumers where the latter derive some warm glow from buying a good of higher environmental quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257796
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Intentions undercover : hiding intentions is considered unfair
Friehe, Tim; Utikal, Verena - 2015
Unfair intentions provoke negative reciprocity from others, making their concealment potentially beneficial. This paper explores whether people hide their unfair intentions from others and how hiding intentions is itself perceived in fairness terms. Our experimental data show a high frequency of...
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Intrinsic preferences for autonomy
Freundt, Jana; Herz, Holger; Kopp, Leander - 2023
Personal autonomy has been argued to be fundamental to well-being and is often discussed as an important driver of economic and political behavior. Yet, preferences for autonomy are not well understood, because their identification requires the separation of instrumental value attached to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249889
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Contracts, biases and consumption of access services
Leider, Stephen G.; Sahin, Ozge - 2012
; experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009489036
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"Now that you mention it" : a survey experiment on information, salience and online privacy
Marreiros, Helia; Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael; … - 2016
Personal data lie at the forefront of different business models and constitute the main source of revenue of several online companies. In many cases, consumers have incomplete information about the digital transactions of their data. This paper investigates whether highlighting positive or...
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