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Berggren, Niclas; Elinder, Mikael - 2010

We investigate to what extent tolerance, as measured by attitudes toward different types of neighbors, affects economic growth. Data from the World Values Survey enable us to investigate tolerance-growth relationships for 54 countries. We provide estimates based on cross-sectional as well as...

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'One-in, one-out' in the European Union legal system: a deceptive reform?

Van den Abeele, Éric - 2020

Since 2002 and the publication of the Mandelkern report,1 the question of reducing burdens and costs, both regulatory and administrative, has emerged as a recurrent topic that regularly comes up at the European Council. It is, moreover, revealing that one of the points of rupture that led the...

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ICT use in the developing world: An analysis of differences in computer and internet penetration

Chinn, Menzie D.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2006

Computer and Internet use, especially in developing countries, has expanded rapidly in recent years. Even in light of … Internet penetration, both currently and over time, we examine panel data for 161 countries over the 1999-2004 period. We … factors associated with computer and Internet penetration do not differ substantially between developed and developing …

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Reputation, social identity and social conflict

Smith, John - 2007

We interpret the psychology literature on social identity and examine its implications in a population partially composed of such agents. We model a population of agents from two exogenous and well defined social groups. Agents are randomly matched to play a reduced form bargaining game. We show...

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Rhetoric in legislative bargaining with asymmetric information

Chen, Ying; Eraslan, Hülya - 2010

In this paper we analyze a legislative bargaining game in which parties privately informed about their preferences bargain over an ideological and a distributive decision. Communication takes place before a proposal is offered and majority rule voting determines the outcome. When the private...

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Cartel pricing dynamics in the presence of an antitrust authority

Harrington, Joseph E. - 2002

Price-fixing is characterized when firms are concerned about creating suspicions that a cartel has formed. Antitrust laws have a complex effect on pricing as they interact with the conditions determining the internal stability of the cartel. Dynamics are driven by two forces - the sensitivity of...

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Moral sentiments and social choice: Fairness considerations in university admissions

Karni, Edi; Safra, Zvi - 2003

We examine the implications for social choice of individuals having an intrinsic sense of fairness. Taking the viewpoint that social justice reflects the moral attitudes of the constituent members, we analyze the effect of the intensity of the individual sense of fairness on university admission...

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Bargaining at divorce: The allocation of custody

Atteneder, Christine; Halla, Martin - 2006

We model the bargaining process of parents over custody at the time of divorce. First we assume an institutional setting where only sole custody is available. In a second step we reform this institutional setting and introduce the possibility of joint custody. We show that some parents, who...

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Market experience is a reference point in judgments of fairness

Herz, Holger; Taubinsky, Dmitry - 2013

People's desire for fair transactions can play an important role in negotiations, organizations, and markets. In this paper, we show that markets can also shape what people consider to be a fair transaction. We propose a simple and generally-applicable model of path-dependent fairness...

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Rhetoric in legislative bargaining with asymmetric information

Chen, Ying; Eraslan, Hülya - 2010

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