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The third theorem of welfare economics : report from a fictional field study
Nyborg, Karine - 2019
The perfectly competitive market - a hypothetical situation free of market failure - is the basis for the two fundamental welfare theorems, and an important benchmark for economic theory. The radical abstractions of this idea, however, make its full implications hard to grasp. I address this...
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Narratives, imperatives, and moral reasoning
Bénabou, Roland; Falk, Armin; Tirole, Jean - 2018
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 social norms. We investigate when narratives emerge from a principal or the actor … himself, how they are interpreted and transmitted by others, and when they spread virally. We then turn to how narratives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881454
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The times have changed : tracking the evolution of gender norms over time
Kuhn, Andreas - 2022
the share of gender-neutral job posts. However, it also appears that there are two distinct narratives, one concerned with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414765
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Lost in transmission
Graeber, Thomas Wilhelm; Noy, Shakked; Roth, Christopher - 2024
For many decisions, people rely on information received from others by word of mouth. How does the process of verbal transmission distort economic information? In our experiments, participants listen to audio recordings containing economic forecasts and are paid to accurately transmit the...
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In front of and behind the veil of ignorance : an analysis of motivations for redistribution
Bjerk, David - 2016
This paper uses a laboratory experiment to explore individuals' motivations for redistribution. The laboratory results show that as income uncertainty diminishes, participants become more extreme in their preferences for redistribution. The findings suggest that for most people, the motivation...
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The rapid evolution of homo economicus : brief exposure to neoclassical assumptions increases self-interested behavior
Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S. - 2016
Economics students have been shown to exhibit more selfishness than other students. Because the literature identifies the impact of long-term exposure to economics instruction (e.g., taking a course), it cannot isolate the specific course content responsible; nor can selection, peer effects, or...
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How do peers impact learning? : an experimental investigation of peer-to-peer teaching and ability tracking
Kimbrough, Erik O.; McGee, Andrew D.; Shigeoka, Hitoshi - 2017
Classroom peers are believed to influence learning by teaching each other, and the efficacy of this teaching likely depends on classroom composition in terms of peers' ability. Unfortunately, little is known about peer-to-peer teaching because it is never observed in field studies. Furthermore,...
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Business ethics in organizations : an experimental examination of whistleblowing and personality
Bartuli, Jenny; Djawadi, Behnud Mir; Fahr, René - 2016
The present paper suggests an innovative experimental design to study the nature and occurrence of whistleblowing in an employee-organization context. In particular, we aim at identifying whether student subjects in the role of employees are willing to blow the whistle on their managers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531925
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Delegation and coordination with multiple threshold public goods : experimental evidence
Corazzini, Luca; Cotton, Christopher; Reggiani, Tommaso - 2019
When multiple charities, social programs and community projects simultaneously vie for funding, donors risk miscoordinating their contributions leading to an inefficient distribution of funding across projects. Community chests and other intermediary organizations facilitate coordination among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140235
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Looking at the bright side : the motivation value of overconfidence
Chen, Si; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2018
The motivation value of confidence postulates that individual effort provision is increasing in beliefs on one's own productivity. This relationship also holds for overconfident individuals who have exaggerated productivity beliefs (motivation value of overconfidence). We present first empirical...
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