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Fase, Martin M. G. - In: De economist : Netherlands economic review ; quarterly … 153 (2005) 1, pp. 85-106

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Chiswick, Carmel U. - 2010

This paper provides an overview of the relationship between economics and religion. It first considers the effects of … economic incentives in the religious marketplace on consumersﾒ demand for "religion." It then shows how this demand affects … religious marketplace and the related "marketplace for ideas" in a religiously pluralistic society. Empirical evidence is …

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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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Pleasures of skill and moral conduct

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2016 - January 2016

As was recognized by Bentham, skillfulness is an important source of pleasure. Humans like achievement and to excel in tasks relevant to them. This paper provides controlled experimental evidence that striving for pleasures of skill can have negative moral consequences and causally reduce moral...

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A little good is good enough : ethical consumption, cheap excuses, and moral self-licensing

Engel, Jeroen Jannis; Szech, Nora - 2017

We explore the role of cheap excuses in product choice. If a product improves upon one ethically relevant dimension, agents may care less about other, completely independent ethical facets of the product. This 'static moral self-licensing' would extend the logic of the well-studied moral...

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Self-serving bias and tax morale

Blaufus, Kay; Braune, Matthias; Hundsdoerfer, Jochen; … - 2014 - This version: September 2014

In a real-effort laboratory experiment to manipulate evasion opportunities, we study whether the moral evaluation of tax evasion is subject to a self-serving bias. We find that tax morale is egoistically biased: Subjects with the opportunity to evade taxes judge tax evasion as less unethical as...

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The heavenly calculus and socially responsible business conduct : an explorative study among executives

Graafland, Johan J.; Mazereeuw-van der Duijn Schouten, … - In: De economist : Netherlands economic review ; quarterly … 155 (2007) 2, pp. 161-181

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The Evolution of Secularization : Cultural Transmission, Religion and Fertility Theory, Simulations and Evidence

Bar-El, Ronen - 2010

empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II …

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Whither Corruption? A Quantitative Survey of the Literature on Corruption and Growth

Campos, Nauro F. - 2010

Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of economic growth? This paper uses meta-analysis techniques to … corruption on growth from 41 empirical studies. The main factors explaining the variation in these estimates are whether the … model accounts for institutions and trade openness (both are found to deflate the negative effect of corruption), authors …

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Government corruption, resource misallocation, and ecological efficiency

Wang, Shuhong; Zhao, Danqing; Chen, Hanxue - In: Energy economics 85 (2020), pp. 1-10

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