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Mattozzi, Andrea; Nocito, Samuel; Sobbrio, Francesco - 2022

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Jabarian, Brian; Lazarus, Simon - 2023

avoid ambiguity even when it means choosing dominated options. In contrast to the literature, we find that 55% of subjects … that such a preference is not mainly due to a lack of understanding. We conclude that subjects avoid ambiguity per se … rather than avoiding ambiguity because it may yield a worse outcome. Such behavior cannot be reconciled with existing models …

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Wind of change? : experimental survey evidence on the COVID-19 shock and socio-political attitudes in Europe

Daniele, Gianmarco; Martinangeli, Andrea F. M.; … - 2020

This paper investigates whether the COVID-19 crisis has affected the way we think about (political) institutions, as well as our broader (policy) attitudes and values. We fielded large online survey experiments in Italy, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, well into the first wave of the...

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Income inequality and political polarization

Marz, Waldemar - 2024

Value issues such as climate policy, immigration, or identity politics are among the most polarizing policy issues in the U.S. and other high-income countries. That polarization has been rising over the last decades. I investigate a novel channel of income inequality and political campaign...

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Chinese aid and democratic values in Latin America

Freytag, Andreas; Kautz, Miriam - 2022

International economic engagement has been increasingly framed in terms of liberal democratic values. Specifically, Chinese aid has been at the center of this debate. Since Chinese aid comes with "no strings attached," a popular narrative is that Chinese aid poses a challenge to conditional aid,...

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Structural transformation and value change : the British abolitionist movement

Figueroa, Valentin; Fouka, Vasiliki - 2023

What drives change in a society's values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection between structural transformation and social change. To understand how changes in a society's dominant mode of production affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the...

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What money can buy : how market exchange promotes values

Weber, Roberto A.; Zhang, Sili - 2023

We study consumers' concerns for the ideological values of their market counterparts and the implications of such concerns for the public promotion of values. Using a survey and online and laboratory experiments, we find that consumers are willing to pay premiums to exchange with counterparts...

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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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