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Homo moralis : personal characteristics, institutions, and moral decision-making

Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Szech, Nora - 2016

This paper studies how individual characteristics, institutions, and their interaction influence moral decisions. We validate a moral paradigm focusing on the willingness to accept harming third parties. Consequences of moral decisions are real. We explore how moral behavior varies with...

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Global social contract : on the road to an economically-sound ; ethics of globalization

Pies, Ingo - 2003

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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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Fighting climate change: the role of norms, preferences, and moral values

Andre, Peter; Boneva, Teodora; Anand Chopra, Felix; … - 2021

We document individual willingness to fight climate change and its behavioral determinants in a large representative sample of US adults. Willingness to fight climate change - as measured through an incentivized donation decision - is highly heterogeneous across the population. Individual...

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Facing yourself : a note on self-image

Falk, Armin - 2017

Numerous signaling models in economics assume image concerns. These take two forms, as relating either to social image or self-image. While empirical work has identified the behavioral importance of the former, little is known about the role of self-image concerns. We exogenously vary self-image...

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Narratives, imperatives, and moral reasoning

Bénabou, Roland; Falk, Armin; Tirole, Jean - 2018

By downplaying externalities, magnifying the cost of moral behavior, or suggesting not being pivotal, exculpatory narratives can allow individuals to maintain a positive image when in fact acting in a morally questionable way. Conversely, responsibilizing narratives can help sustain better...

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Status inequality, moral disengagement and violence

Falk, Armin - 2017

This paper studies the causal effect of status differences on moral disengagement and violence. To measure violent behavior, in the experiment, a subject can inflict a painful electric shock on another subject in return for money. We exogenously vary relative status in the realm of sexual...

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Sustainability by corporate citizenship

Beckmann, Markus; Pies, Ingo - 2004

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Corporate Citizenship and New Governance : The Political Role of Corporations

Pies, Ingo (ed.); Koslowski, Peter (ed.) - 2011

This volume unites the perspective of business ethics with approaches from strategic management, economics, law … internationalization of the (global) economy and the free movement of capital, new instruments of political coordination are needed. These … and the self-conceptualization of business firms as corporate citizens within society. Compan …

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Parity reversion in real exchange rates : fast, slow, or not at all?

Cashin, Paul A.; McDermott, John - In: IMF staff papers 53 (2006) 1, pp. 89-119

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