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Institutions, shared guilt, and moral transgression

Rothenhäusler, Dominik; Schweizer, Nikolaus; Szech, Nora - 2013

We study how institutional design influences moral transgression. People are heterogeneous in their feelings of guilt and can share guilt with others. Institutions determine the number of supporters necessary for immoral outcomes to occur. With more supporters required, every supporter can share...

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Organizations, diffused pivotality and immoral outcomes

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2013

This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...

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Animal welfare and human ethics : a personality study

Albrecht, Konstanze; Krämer, Marius-Florentin; Szech, Nora - 2017

We elicit concern for animal welfare in an incentivized, direct and real setup that allows us to separate genuine … interest in animal welfare from confounding factors like advertisement, replacement arguments or image concerns. Subjects … (money) against the welfare of a hen. Our data shed light on a long-standing philosophical debate about the relationship …

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Information nudges and self-control

Mariotti, Thomas; Schweizer, Nikolaus; Szech, Nora; … - 2018

We study the optimal design of information nudges for present-biased consumers who have to make sequential consumption decisions without exact prior knowledge of their long-term consequences. For arbitrary distributions of risk, there exists a consumer-optimal information nudge that is of cutoff...

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Inequality and unemployment in a global economy

Helpman, Elhanan (contributor); Itskhoki, Oleg (contributor) - 2009

inequality and raises unemployment, but expected welfare gains are ensured if workers are risk neutral. And while wage inequality …

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Anticipated alternative policy-rate paths in policy simulations

Laséen, Stefan; Svensson, Lars E. O. - 2011

This paper specifies a new convenient algorithm to construct policy projections conditional on alternative anticipated policy-rate paths in linearized dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models, such as Ramses, the Riksbank's main DSGE model. Such projections with anticipated...

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More effort with less pay : on information avoidance, belief design and performance

Huck, Steffen; Szech, Nora; Wenner, Lukas M. - 2015

In a tedious real effort task, agents can choose to receive information about their piece rate that is either low or ten times higher. One third of subjects deliberately decide to forego this instrumental information, revealing a preference for information avoidance. Strikingly, agents who face...

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More effort with less pay : on information avoidance, belief design and performance

Huck, Steffen; Szech, Nora; Wenner, Lukas M. - 2015 - June 2015, revised September 2015

In a tedious real effort task, subjects know that their piece rate is either low or ten times higher. When subjects are informed about their piece rate realization, they adapt their performance. One third of subjects nevertheless forego this instrumental information when given the choice - and...

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Balanced growth despite Uzawa

Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan; Oberfield, Ezra; … - 2016

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Trade and labor market outcomes

Helpman, Elhanan; Itskhoki, Oleg; Redding, Stephen - 2010

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