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Ethical Foundations of Financial Regulation
Kane, Edward J. - 1997
and efficiency across society as a whole. Agency-cost theory recognizes that incentive conflicts and coordination problems … one sector of society at the expense of another. Each rationale sets different goals and assigns responsibiliy for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472798
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Integrating Ethical Values and Economic Value to Steer Progress in Artificial Intelligence
Korinek, Anton - 2019
Economics and ethics both offer important perspectives on our society, but they do so from two different viewpoints … - the central focus of economics is how the price system in our economy values resources; the central focus of ethics is the … moral evaluation of actions in our society. The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) forces humanity to confront new areas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480076
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'Morality and Political Economy' from the Vantage Point of Economics
Enke, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This article calls for a greater integration of moral psychology and political economy. While these disciplines were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512133
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Self-Esteem, Moral Capital, and Wrongdoing
Dal Bó, Ernesto - 2008
We present an infinite-horizon model of moral standards where self-esteem and unconscious drives play key roles. In the model, an individual receives random temptations (such as bribe offers) and must decide which to resist. Individual actions depend both on conscious intent and a type...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464139
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Randomizing Religion : The Impact of Protestant Evangelism on Economic Outcomes
Bryan, Gharad T. - 2018
To test the causal impact of religiosity, we conducted a randomized evaluation of an evangelical Protestant Christian values and theology education program that consisted of 15 weekly half-hour sessions. We analyze outcomes for 6,276 ultra-poor Filipino households six months after the program...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453436
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Regulation and Supervision : An Ethical Perspective
Kane, Edward J. - 2008
This essay shows that government credit-allocation schemes generate incentive conflicts that undermine the quality of bank supervision and eventually produce banking crisis. For political reasons, most countries establish a regulatory culture that embraces three economically contradictory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464752
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Moral Universalism and the Structure of Ideology
Enke, Benjamin - 2020
Throughout the Western world, people's policy views are correlated across domains in a strikingly similar fashion. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481366
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The Economics of Cultural Transmission and Socialization
Bisin, Alberto - 2010
cultural heterogeneity, the world's geographical fragmentation by ethic and religious traits, at any given time. Finally, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462145
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Universalism : Global Evidence
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Enke, Benjamin; Tungodden, Bertil - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper presents a new set of stylized facts about the global variation in universalism, leveraging hypothetical money allocation tasks deployed in representative samples of 64,000 people from 60 countries. Our data reveal large variation in universalism within and across countries, which...
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Religiosity and climate change policies
Sharma, Swati; Ang, James B.; Fredriksson, Per - In: Energy economics 101 (2021), pp. 1-15
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