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Social comparison nudges : guessing the norm increases charitable giving

Bartke, Simon; Friedl, Andreas; Gelhaar, Felix; Reh, Laura - 2016

argue that guessing draws attention to the norm and therefore increases its effectiveness. Our results suggest that the … effectiveness of nudges that use descriptive norms depends on how the a priori beliefs about the descriptive norm are updated. …

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Bread and bullets

Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events …

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Does ethnic heterogeneity decrease workers' effort in the presence of income redistribution? : an experimental analysis

Schütt, Christoph; Pipke, David; Detlefsen, Lena; … - 2022

statistically insignificantly. Workers’ beliefs over the third party’s redistribution rate do not mediate such results and are …

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Individual expectations and aggregate behavior in learning to forecast experiments

Hommes, Cars (contributor); Lux, Thomas (contributor) - 2008

forecast laboratory experiments with human subjects (Hommes et al. 2007), simultaneously and across different treatments …

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Envy, guilt, and the Phillips curve

Ahrens, Steffen; Snower, Dennis J. - 2012

We incorporate inequity aversion into an otherwise standard New Keynesian dynamic equilibrium model with Calvo wage contracts and positive inflation. Workers with relatively low incomes experience envy, whereas those with relatively high incomes experience guilt. The former seek to raise their...

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A theory of price adjustment under loss aversion

Ahrens, Steffen; Pirschel, Inske; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014

We present a new partial equilibrium theory of price adjustment, based on consumer loss aversion. In line with prospect theory, the consumers' perceived utility losses from price increases are weighted more heavily than the perceived utility gains from price decreases of equal magnitude. Price...

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The influence of induced care and anger motives on behavior, beliefs and perceptions in a public goods game

Bartke, Simon; Bosworth, Steven; Snower, Dennis J.; … - 2016

. Subjects' preferences, beliefs, and perceptions under each motive are compared with those of subjects experiencing a neutral … treatments, though higher beliefs explain part of the effect that Care has on giving. These results are robust to checking for … comprehension of the game's incentives. We also observe concomitant differences in attention to own and other's payoffs (using mouse …

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Migration experience, aspirations and the brain drain theory and empirical evidence

Böhme, Marcus H.; Glaser, Toni - 2014

We develop a theoretical model of human skill formation and emigration. Additionally to existing brain drain models, we partly endogenize the heterogeneity of the individuals, by introducing aspirations. Emigration of an individual will result in a migration experience, which increases the...

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Accounting for context : separating monetary and social incentives

Bergh, Andreas; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2014 - This Version: October 7, 2014

This paper proposes a simple framework to model social preferences in a game theoretic framework which explicitly separates economic incentives from social (context) effects. It is argued that such a perspective makes it easier to analyse contextual effects. Moreover, the framework is used to...

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Inequality aversion and the long-run effectiveness of monetary policy : bilateral versus group comparison

Ahrens, Steffen - 2012

In this paper we incorporate the two most prominent approaches of inequality aversion, i.e. Fehr and Schmidt (1999) and Bolton and Ockenfels (2000) into an otherwise standard New Keynesian macro model and compare them with respect to their influence on the long-run effectiveness of monetary...

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