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The Price of a Price: On the Crowding out of Social Norms
Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Mendys, Ewa - Tinbergen Institute - 2001
There is increasing empirical and experimental evidence that providing financial incentives to agents to perform certain socially desirable actions may permanently reduce other types of motivations to undertake these actions. We study the impact of financial incentives on the desire for social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136944
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The Importance of Emotions for the Effectiveness of Social Punishment
Hopfensitz, Astrid; Reuben, Ernesto - Tinbergen Institute - 2005
This paper experimentally explores how the enforcement of cooperative behavior in a social dilemma is facilitated through institutional as well as emotional mechanisms. Recent studies emphasize the importance of negatively valued emotions, such as anger, which motivate individuals to punish free...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137115
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The Price of a Price: On the Crowding out of Social Norms
Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Mendys, Ewa - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001
There is increasing empirical and experimental evidence thatproviding financial incentives to agents to performcertain socially desirable actions may permanently reduce other typesof motivations to undertake these actions.We study the impact of financial incentives on the desire for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256539
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The Importance of Emotions for the Effectiveness of Social Punishment
Hopfensitz, Astrid; Reuben, Ernesto - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
This paper experimentally explores how the enforcement of cooperative behavior in a social dilemma is facilitated through institutional as well as emotional mechanisms. Recent studies emphasize the importance of negatively valued emotions, such as anger, which motivate individuals to punish free...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256568
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Trust and Economic Growth
Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Schaik, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2002
paper, Knack and Keefer (1997) assess the effect of trust on growth. This paper analyses the robustness of their results … the relationship between trust and growth in terms of both the size and the significance of the estimated effect, is … highly dependent on the set of conditioning variables. An answer to the question whether there is an economic payoff of trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136946
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The Economics of Co-ethnic Employment; Incentives, Welfare Effects and Policy Options
Butter, Frank A.G. den; Masurel, Enno; Mosch, Robert - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
for employees to work in co-ethnic firms. It argues that strong social networks and related high intra-group trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137251
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Trade, Trust and Transaction Cost
Butter, Frank A.G. den; Mosch, Robert H.J. - Tinbergen Institute - 2003
suggest. Trust between trading partners lowers transaction costs and may therefore enhance trade. The empirical analysis of … this paper shows that more trust leads to more trade so that part of the "mystery of missing trade" can be attributed to … the lack of trust between trading partners, e.g. because of cultural differences and habits, or because of insufficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137372
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The Economics of Co-ethnic Employment; Incentives, Welfare Effects and Policy Options
Butter, Frank A.G. den; Masurel, Enno; Mosch, Robert - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
networks and related high intra-group trust constitute the major reasons for co-ethnic employment by lowering information and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256476
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Trade, Trust and Transaction Cost
Butter, Frank A.G. den; Mosch, Robert H.J. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
suggest. Trust between trading partners lowers transaction costs and may therefore enhance trade. The empirical analysis of … this paper shows that more trust leads to more trade so that part of the "mystery of missing trade" can be attributed to … the lack of trust between trading partners, e.g. because of cultural differences and habits, or because of insufficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256716
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Trust and Economic Growth
Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Schaik, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
paper, Knack and Keefer (1997) assess the effect of trust on growth. This paper analyses the robustness of their results … the relationship between trust and growth in terms of both the size and the significance of the estimated effect, is … highly dependent on the set of conditioning variables. An answer to the question whether there is an economic payoff of trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256981