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Economic incentives and social preferences : a preference-based Lucas critique of public policy
Bowles, Samuel; Polanía Reyes, Sandra - 2009
Policies and explicit private incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies indicates that this crowding out effect is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872219
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Tastes, Values, and the Future of Law and Economics
Zamir, Eyal - 2017
This is a Review of Guido Calabresi’s fascinating and thought-provoking new book, The Future of Law and Economics (presented in a book symposium held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in December 2016). The Review proposes to break the notion of commodification, as used by Calabresi, into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014123734
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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth
Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006
pure distributive social systems to general social systems that combine competitive market exchange with the non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023678
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Corruption and Social Interaction: Evidence from China
Dong, Bin; Torgler, Benno - 2010
We explore theoretically and empirically whether social interaction, including local and global interaction, influences the incidence of corruption. We first present an interaction-based model on corruption that predicts that the level of corruption is positively associated with social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168364
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Use of coordination fields in food economics
Tóth, József - 2010
's dimension which is represented by the exchange of goods and services in question. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307588
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Cultural Biases in Economic Exchange
Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051330
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Reciprocity, Exchange and Redistribution. An experimental investigation inspired by Karl Polanyi’s The Economy as Instituted Process
Danese, Giuseppe; Mittone, Luigi - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2008
Inspired by Karl Polanyi’s writings on three allocation modes, namely reciprocity, exchange and redistribution, we … the notion of symmetry among the players increased efficiency levels significantly. We then simulated a market exchange …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005465217
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Use of coordination fields in food economics
Tóth, József - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2010
's dimension which is represented by the exchange of goods and services in question. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370724
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Compensatory Inter Vivos Gifts
Hochguertel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - 2007
transfers from parents to children are gifts, and not temporary help to overcome liquidity constraints. Second, inter vivos … gifts are compensatory in the sense that life-time poorer children will receive higher transfers than their life-time richer … siblings. Third, inter vivos gifts do not, however, make up the entire difference in life-time incomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325497
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Compensatory inter vivos gifts
Hochgürtel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - 2007
transfers from parents to children are gifts, and not temporary help to overcome liquidity constraints. Second, inter vivos … gifts are compensatory in the sense that life-time poorer children will receive higher transfers than their life-time richer … siblings. Third, inter vivos gifts do not, however, make up the entire difference in life-time incomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372976