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Ambiguous beliefs on damages and civil liability theories

Mondello, Gérard - 2013

This paper analyzes the meaning of comparing the economic performance of strict liability and negligence rule in a unilateral standard accident model under Knightian uncertainty. It focuses on the cost expectation of major harm on which the injurers form beliefs. It shows first that, when the...

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Opinion dynamics and wisdom under conformity

Buechel, Berno; Hellmann, Tim; Kölßner, Stefan - 2014

We study a dynamic model of opinion formation in social networks. In our model, boundedly rational agents update opinions by averaging over their neighbors' expressed opinions, but may misrepresent their own opinion by conforming or counter-conforming with their neighbors. We show that an...

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The power of public choice in law and economics

Torgler, Benno - 2021

In this paper I discuss how Law and Economics can benefit from incorporating some insights from Public Choice into … journals such as Public Choice, Journal of Law and Economics, and Journal of Law, Economics and Organization in comparison to …, Econometrica, or Review of Economic Studies. I also refer to the connectivity of Behavioral Law and Economics and Behavioral Public …

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Juvenile delinquency and conformism

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2010 - Revised: July 2, 2009

This paper studies whether conformism behavior affects individual outcomes in crime. We present a social network model of peer effects with ex-ante heterogeneous agents and show how conformism and deterrence affect criminal activities. We then bring the model to the data by using a very detailed...

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Are academics messy? : testing the broken windows theory with a field experiment in the work environment

Ramos, João; Torgler, Benno - 2010

We study the broken windows theory with a field experiment in a shared area of a workplace in academia (department … increases ceteris paribus by around 40 percent. -- Broken Windows Theory ; Field Experiment ; Littering …

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Waste prevention and social preferences : the role of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations

Cecere, Grazia; Mancinelli, Susanna; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - 2013

Though reduction is at the top of the waste management hierarchy, EU policies have historically introduced waste management incentives mainly concerning waste recovery and recycling, in addition to actions aimed at reducing disposal in landfills. Only very recently have EU policies started...

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Let's (not) get together! : the role of social norms in social distancing during COVID-19

Martinez, Deborah; Parilli, Cristina; Scartascini, Carlos G. - 2021

While effective preventive measures against COVID-19 are now widely known, many individuals fail to adopt them. This paper provides experimental evidence about one potentially important driver of compliance with social distancing: social norms. We asked each of 23,000 survey respondents in...

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Economic incentives, home production and gender identity norms

Ichino, Andrea; Olsson, Martin; Petrongolo, Barbara; … - 2019

We infer the role of gender identity norms from the reallocation of childcare across parents, following changes in their relative wages. By exploiting variation from a Swedish tax reform, we estimate the elasticity of substitution in parental childcare for the whole population and for...

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Social norms and gender-typical occupational choices

Palffy, Patricia; Lehnert, Patrick; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2021 - First draft, preliminary results

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Local norms describing the role of the state and the private provision of training

Kuhn, Andreas; Schweri, Jürg; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2019

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