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Shall we kill or enslave Caesar? Analyzing the Caesar model

Jasso, Guillermina - 2008

paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory which unifies justice, status, and power … of societies - justice-nonmaterialistic, status, and power-nonmaterialistic. Results cover members' gains, effects of own … killed only in a justice-nonmaterialistic society, and from the noblest of motives - to achieve equal gains for members. …

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Economic governance of MFIs: Inside the black box

Arun, Thankom; Annim, Samuel Kobina - 2010

This paper investigates a relationship between economic governance and the dual objectives of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs): poverty reduction and financial viability. Using an unbalanced panel of 531 MFIs the important role of other institutions such as country-level business registry...

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Pro-social missions and worker motivation: An experimental study

Fehrler, Sebastian; Kosfeld, Michael - 2012

Do employees work harder if their job has the right mission? In a laboratory labor market experiment, we test whether subjects provide higher effort if they can choose the mission of their job. We observe that subjects do not provide higher effort than in a control treatment. Surprised by this...

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Other-Regarding Preferences and Performance Pay : An Experiment on Incentives and Sorting

Villeval, Marie-Claire; Eriksson, Tor - 2004

Variable pay not only creates a link between pay and performance but may also help firms in attracting the more productive employees (Lazear 1986, 2000). However, due to lack of natural data, empirical analyses of the relative importance of the selection and incentive effects of pay schemes are...

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Is Strong Reciprocity a Maladaptation? On the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Altruism

Fehr, Ernst; Henrich, Joseph - 2003

In recent years a large number of experimental studies have documented the existence of strong reciprocity among humans. Strong reciprocity means that people willingly repay gifts and punish the violation of cooperation and fairness norms even in anonymous one-shot encounters with genetically...

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Tax Evasion and Social Interactions

Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2004

The paper extends the standard tax evasion model by allowing for social interactions. In Manski?s (1993) nomenclature, our model takes into account social conformity effects (i.e., endogenous interactions), fairness effects (i.e., exogenous interactions) and sorting effects (i.e., correlated...

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Dividing Justly in Bargaining Problems with Claims: Normative Judgments and Actual Negotiations

Gächter, Simon; Riedl, Arno - 2004

Theoretical research on claims problems has concentrated on normative properties and axiomatizations of solution concepts. We complement these analyses by empirical evidence on the predictability of three classical solution concepts in a bankruptcy problem. We examine both people's impartial...

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Envy and Compassion in Tournaments

Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2002

Many experiments indicate that most individuals are not purely motivated by material self interest, but also care about the well being of others. In this paper we examine tournaments among inequity averse agents, who dislike disadvantageous inequity (envy) and advantageous inequity (compassion)....

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To Draft or Not to Draft? Efficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription

Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2005

We study the efficiency and distributional consequences of establishing and abolishing the draft in a dynamic model with overlapping generations, taking into account endogenous human capital formation as well as government budget constraints. The introduction of the draft initially benefits the...

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Driving forces behind informal sanctions

Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - 2005

This paper investigates the driving forces behind informal sanctions in cooperation games and the extent to which theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators' punishment is almost exclusively targeted towards the defectors but the latter also impose a...

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