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Since formal rules can only partially reduce opportunistic behavior, third-party sanctioning to promote fairness is … business and not snitch on others. In a set of fairness games where a third party can punish unfair behavior, but players can …
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What is inequality in health? Are economists' standard tools for measuring income inequality relevant or useful for measuring it? Does income protect health and does income inequality endanger it? I discuss two different concepts of health inequality and relate each of them to the literature on...
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redistribution. We study the dynamic evolution of different economies in which redistributive policies, perceptions of fairness …, inequality and growth are jointly determined. We show how including fairness explains various observed correlations between … inequality, redistribution and growth. We also show how different beliefs about fairness can keep two otherwise identical …
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I suppose that consumers see a firm as fair if they cannot reject the hypothesis that the firm is somewhat benevolent towards them. Consumers that can reject this hypothesis become angry, which is costly to the firm. I show that firms that wish to avoid this anger will keep their prices rigid...
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In Fairness versus Welfare, we advance the thesis that social policies should be assessed based entirely on their … effects on individuals' well-being. This thesis implies that no independent weight should be accorded to notions of fairness … (other than many purely distributive notions). We support our thesis in three ways: by demonstrating how notions of fairness …
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Most wage-contracting models with rational expectations fail to replicate the persistence in inflation observed in the data. We argue that coordination problems and multiple equilibria are the keys to explaining inflation persistence. We develop a wage-contracting model in which workers are...
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fairness to their consumers. The theory relies on two psychological assumptions. First, customers care about the fairness of …This paper proposes a theory of price rigidity consistent with survey evidence that firms stabilize prices out of … rigid. Embedded in a simple macroeconomic model, our pricing theory produces nonneutral monetary policy, a short …
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fairness and social justice are increasingly voiced by citizens and their governments around the world. Taking a novel "bottom … up" approach to concerns for fairness, we show how these concerns can be formalized in a general and tractable way, and …-related fairness concerns of their citizens. More generally, our findings point to a detailed understanding of real-world perceptions …
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We present a dictator game experiment where the recipients are local charities that serve the poor. Donors consist of approximately 1000 participants from a nationally representative respondent panel that is maintained by a private survey research firm, Knowledge Networks. We randomly manipulate...
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We model visibility bias in the social transmission of consumption behavior. When consumption is more salient than non-consumption, people perceive that others are consuming heavily, and infer that future prospects are favorable. This increases aggregate consumption in a positive feedback loop....
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