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A competitive equilibrium for a warm glow economy

Allouch, Nizar - 2009

to the normative and positive theory of public goods provision. First, it is a price based mechanism achieving efficient … ; Altruism ; Competitive equilibrium ; Free riding ; Public goods provision …

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A core-equilibrium convergence in an economy with public goods

Allouch, Nizar - 2009

This paper deals with a core-equilibrium equivalence in an economy with public goods where preferences of consumers display warm glow effects. We demonstrate that provided that each consumer becomes satiated to other consumers provision, it holds that, for a sufficiently large economy, the set...

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Punish and perish?

Antoci, Angelo; Zarri, Luca - 2011

The evolution of large-scale cooperation among genetic strangers is a fundamental unanswered question in the social sciences. Behavioral economics has persuasively shown that so called "strong reciprocity" plays a key role in accounting for the endogenous enforcement of cooperation. Insofar as...

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Competitive politics, simplified heuristics, and preferences for public goods

Schläpfer, Felix; Schmitt, Marcel; Roschewitz, Annette - 2007

-survey experiment to investigate how knowledge of party positions affects policy choices. We followed standard procedures in developing … an attribute-based choice experiment on alternative land-use policies in Switzerland. In contrast to the usual … ; choice experiment ; contingent valuation ; landscape ; heuristics ; information ; preference formation ; public goods …

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The transmission of sustainable harvesting norms when agents are conditionally cooperative

Richter, Andries; Grasman, Johan - 2013 - Draft version: 15 May 2013

Experimental and observational studies have highlighted the importance of agents being conditionally cooperative when facing a social dilemma. We formalize this mechanism in a theoretical model that portrays a small community having joint access to a common pool resource. The diffusion of norms...

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Risk preference and child labour : econometric evidence

Frempong, Raymond Boadi; Stadelmann, David - 2020

The literature suggests that the household invests in the human capital of a child member not only for altruistic reasons but also as insurance against future income shocks. Hence, the allocation of the child's time between school and work is a function of the risk preference of the household...

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The cost of segregation in social networks

Allouch, Nizar - 2013

This paper investigates the private provision of public goods in segregated societies. While most research agrees that segregation undermines public provision, the findings are mixed for private provision: social interactions, being strong within groups and limited across groups, may either...

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How green are economists?

Carattini, Stefano; Tavoni, Alessandro - 2016

The market for voluntary carbon offsets has grown steadily in the last decade, yet it remains a very small niche. Most emissions from business travel are still not offset. This paper exploits a unique dataset examining the decision to purchase carbon offsets at two academic conferences in...

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Localization economies and the sensitivity of firm foundations to changes in taxation and public expenditure

Wittrock, Christian - 2018

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The politics of fiscal federalism : building a stronger decentralization theorem

Ponce Rodríguez, Raúl A.; Hankla, Charles R.; … - 2020

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