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The Lifecycle of Affirmative Action Policies and Its Effect on Effort and Sabotage Behavior

Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Danilov, Anastasia; Kocher, … - 2023

A main goal of affirmative action (AA) policies is to enable disadvantaged groups to compete with their privileged counterparts. Existing theoretical and empirical research documents that incorporating AA can result in both more egalitarian outcomes and higher exerted efforts. However, the...

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Income Misperception and Populism

Albers, Thilo Nils Hendrik; Kersting, Felix; Kosse, Fabian - 2022

We propose that false beliefs about the own current economic status are an important factor for explaining populist attitudes. Along with the subjects' receptiveness to right-wing populism, we elicit their perceived relative income positions in a representative survey of German households. We...

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Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences: Evidence From Representative Survey Experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality strongly increases concerns about educational...

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Entscheidungsfreiheit als Grundlage wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Forschung. Bezüge zwischen Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Ethik und Neurobiologie

Küpper, Hans-Ulrich - 2006

This paper analyses whether freedom of decision as a crucial precondition of normative deci-sion theory is questioned … by ethics and neurobiology. It argues for an understanding of busi-ness ethics which sees the economic agents’ freedom of … plain determination on the one extreme and complete autonomy on the other. It supports the proposition in decision theory …

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Privatization and regional distribution of manufacturing in Turkey

Dogruel, Fatma; Dogruel, Suut - 2011

economic policies: The reform process included not only financial liberalization and trade reforms, but also the privatization … advocated privatization as a "must" policy tool. The paper explores the effects of privatization on regional growth of Turkish … or substitute of the private sector. The findings show that privatization has no perverse effects on the development of …

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A Theoretical Investigation of Handguns, Cops and Robbers

Jin Kim, Jin; Boyd, John H. - 2002

We study a theoretical general equilibrium environment in which the only activity of interest is armed robbery. Agents choose whether to be citizens or robbers, and whether to purchase handguns. Armed citizens can protect themselves from robbery but any armed agent runs the risk of accidentally...

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On the Allocative Efficiency of Ownership Unbundling

Bolle, Friedel; Breitmoser, Yves - 2006

We analyze vertical structures where a regulated network operator serves n network users, and the network users compete in quantities for customers. We distinguish two cases: (i) none of the network users are related to the network operator (ownership unbundling), (ii) one of the network users...

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The Impact of Compulsory Arbitration on Bargaining Behavior: An Experimental Study

Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2005

A series of experiments compares bargaining behavior under three different settings: no arbitration, conventional and final offer arbitration. Under no arbitration disputes with zero payoffs were around 10%, while the pie was equally split in less than half of the cases. Under conventional...

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(Dis)honesty and the Value of Transparency for Campaign Promises

Lang, Matthias; Schudy, Simeon - 2023

Promise competition is prevalent in many economic environments, but promise keeping is often difficult to observe. We study the value of transparency for promise competition and ask whether promises still offer an opportunity to honor future obligations when outcomes do not allow for observing...

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Side-Effects of campaign finance reform

Dahm, Matthias; Porteiro, Nicolás - 2005

Since campaign finance reform is usually motivated by the concern that existing legislation can not effectively prevent campaign contributions to 'buy favors', this paper assumes that contributions influence political decisions. But, given that it is also widely recognized that interest groups...

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