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...

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...

Es ist das theoretische Ziel des Forschungsvorhabens, die Bestimmungsfaktoren der "monetäre Stabilität unter Unsicherheit" aus einer Vermögensmarktperspektive und aus einer handlungstheoretischen Perspektive zu erklären. Die im Vermögensmarktansatz bislang nicht explizierten...

This paper studies the global variation in economic preferences. For this purpose, we present the Global Preference Survey (GPS), an experimentally validated survey dataset of time preference, risk preference, positive and negative reciprocity, altruism, and trust from 80,000 individuals in 76...