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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 …
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This article calls for a greater integration of moral psychology and political economy. While these disciplines were … recent economics research on prominent ideas in moral psychology. First, the theory that morality is ultimately economically …
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confidential IRS audit data, we show that corporations with owners from countries with higher corruption norms engage in higher … owners are from countries with higher corruption norms. This suggests that cultural norms can be a challenge to legal …
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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...
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We show that firms with CEOs who personally benefitted from options backdating were more likely to engage in other forms of corporate misbehavior, suggestive of an unethical corporate culture. These firms were more likely to overstate firm profitability and to engage in less profitable...
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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...
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productivity of pastor effort is higher. These findings shed light on factors determining the composition of religion within …
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(Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the cultural values that complement the prevailing institutions. As a result …
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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...
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for hiding adverse information. It is ironic that what are called accounting ethics' fail to embrace the profession …'s common-law duty of assuring the economic meaningfulness of the statements that clients pay it to endorse …
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