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Structural modeling of altruistic giving
Breitmoser, Yves - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper analyzes econometric models of altruistic giving in dictator and public goods games. Using existing data sets, I evaluate internal and external validity of "atheoretic" regression models as well as structural models of random behavior, random coefficients, and random utility,...
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Public Spending and Volunteering: "The Big Society", Crowding Out, and Volunteering Capital.
Bartels, Koen; Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The current British Government's "Big Society" plan is based on the idea that granting more freedom to local communities and volunteers will compensate for a withdrawal of public agencies and spending. This idea is grounded on a widely held belief about the relationship between government and...
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The Role of Expectations and Gender in Altruism
Rigdon, Mary L.; Levine, Adam Seth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
A central question in the study of altruism has been whether there is a systematic gender difference in giving behavior …
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Obedience to Rules with Mild Sanctions: The Roles of Peer Punishment and Voting
Chen, Josie I - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
study the impact of non-deterrent formal sanctions on voluntary contributions to a public good in a laboratory experiment …
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Promoting Competition or Helping Less-Endowed? An Experiment on Collective Institutional Choices under Intra-Group Inequality
Kamei, Kenju - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Unequally-distributed resources, whether people’s income or competence, are ubiquitous in our real world. Whether to promote competition or to lead to a more equal environment is often in question in societies or organizations. With heterogeneous endowments, we let subjects collectively choose...
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Power of Joint Decision-Making in a Finitely-Repeated Dilemma
Kamei, Kenju - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
A rich body of literature has proposed that pairs behave significantly differently from individuals due to a number of reasons such as group polarization. This paper experimentally compares cooperation behaviors between pairs and individuals in a finitely-repeated two-player public goods game...
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The unfortunate uselessness of most ’state of the art’ academic monetary economics
Buiter, Willem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Standard macroeconomic theory did not help foresee the crisis, nor has it helped understand it or craft solutions. This columns argues that both the New Classical and New Keynesian complete markets macroeconomic theories not only did not allow the key questions about insolvency and illiquidity...
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Crowding Out, Deficits, and Interest Rates: Reply
Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1987
This Note endeavors to illustrate the relevance of the impact of the budget deficit upon the interest rate to the issue of crowding out. It is argued that empirical studies of the impact of deficits upon interest rates may be very useful in det­ermining whether (and how) crowding out occurs,...
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Federal Deficits and the Real Rate of Interest in the United States: A Note
Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1986
This brief Note provides strong empirical evidence that federal govern­ment deficits can indeed have a positive and significant impact upon short­ term interest rates; the findings in this paper thereby establish another mechanism for the transmission of crowding out. This study differs from...
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Rewarding my Self. Self Esteem, Self Determination and Motivations
Bruno, Bruna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
to explain how they affect the intrinsic motivation and its impact on individual choices. The aim is to reconcile … different explanations (and consequences) of the motivation crowding theory in a unique theoretical framework where the locus of … control is introduced in a one period maximisation problem and the intrinsic motivation is assumed as an exogenous …
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