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Reciprocity Versus Reelection
Dalmia, Prateik; Drazen, Allan; Ozbay, Erkut - 2022
for instrumental purposes. We then present an experiment that tests these ideas in the laboratory and finds support for …
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The Injustice of Inequality
Glaeser, Edward L.; Scheinkman, José; Shleifer, Andrei - 2021
In many countries, the operation of legal, political and regulatory institutions is subverted by the wealthy and the politically powerful for their own benefit. This subversion takes the form of corruption, intimidation, and other forms of influence. We present a model of such institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220922
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Coalition Formation in Political Games
Acemoglu, Daron - 2006
political power. The ruling coalition consists of a subset of the individuals in the society and decides the distribution of …-transferable utility cooperative game. In all cases, the nature of the ruling coalition is determined by the power constraint, which …
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Emergence and Persistence of Inefficient States
Acemoglu, Daron - 2006
society consists of rich and poor individuals. The rich are initially in power, but expect to transition to democracy, which … rents for bureaucrats than would an efficient state structure. When the poor come to power in democracy, they will reform …
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The Emergence of Weak, Despotic and Inclusive States
Acemoglu, Daron - 2017
) and civil society (representing non-elite citizens), where both players can invest to increase their power. The model …
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Do Race and Fairness Matter in Generosity? Evidence from a Nationally Representative Charity Experiment
Fong, Christina M. - 2010
We present a dictator game experiment where the recipients are local charities that serve the poor. Donors consist of … respondents an audiovisual presentation about the recipients. The experiment yields three main findings. First, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152510
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When Fair Isn't Fair : Understanding Choice Reversals Involving Social Preferences
Andreoni, James - 2018
versus equal outcomes). In a laboratory experiment, the most common behavioral pattern is for subjects to select the ex ante …
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What Makes a Price Fair? An Experimental Analysis of Transaction Experience and Endogenous Fairness Views
Herz, Holger - 2016
People's fairness preferences are an important constraint for what constitutes an acceptable economic transaction, yet little is known about how these preferences are formed. In this paper, we provide clean evidence that previous transactions play an important role in shaping perceptions of...
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Not Playing Favorites : An Experiment on Parental Fairness Preferences
Berry, James; Dizon-Ross, Rebecca; Jagnani, Maulik - 2022
We conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment to identify parents' preferences for investing in their children. The … experiment exogenously varied the short-run returns to educational investments to identify how much parents care about maximizing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013308357
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Are Protests Games of Strategic Complements or Substitutes? Experimental Evidence from Hong Kong's Democracy Movement
Cantoni, Davide - 2017
substitutability. We conduct the first field experiment directly manipulating individuals' beliefs about others' protest participation …
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