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that such “fairness spillovers” can incur large economic costs: a belief that there is unfairness in taxation in the sense …
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that such 'fairness spillovers' can incur large economic costs: A belief that there is unfairness in taxation in the sense …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010567953
This study evaluates people’s concerns for distributive fairness (equality of outcomes and payoffs to those worse …-off) and reciprocal fairness (receiving what one is due based on one’s past actions) using dictator, ultimatum, and trust games … distributive fairness, we identify positive offers as first movers in both games as evidence of expectations of reciprocity by …
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In some cultures vast personal wealth is lauded whereas in others, it is viewed with suspicion and contempt. In recent years, a super rich elite of business people has emerged in China, and, given the country's cultural and socialist past, we believe that people are more likely to react...
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This paper differentiates between three motives behind punishment in a social dilemma: minimizing inequalities, retaliation against unfair acts, and spitefulness. The experiment shows that cooperators and defectors differently respond to intentions and thereby substantiates Falk et al....
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We introduce the give-or-destroy game that allows us to fully elicit an individual's social preference schedule. We find that about one third of the population exhibits both pro-social and anti-social preferences that are independent of payoff comparisons with those who are affected. We call...
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of fairness toward the price mechanism, whereas non-economists did not exhibit significant sensitivity. This sensitivity … fairness. The latter reflects equal treatment in terms of general perceptions, thus this could be interpreted as an increased …
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The question of whether lawyers and managers behave selfishly or fairly has inspired discussion for a long time. Empirical evidence, however, is sparse. Using data from an experiment with 359 law and business administration students, we investigate this question empirically and provide first...
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This paper delivers a step toward a naturalistic foundation of the social contract. While mainstream social contract theory is based on an original position model that is defined in an aprioristic way, we endogenize its key elements, i.e., develop them out of the individuals’ moral common...
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In this paper, we examine students' attitudes towards various allocation mechanisms for a scarce resource. For this purpose, we have run a survey among officers of the German military who are enrolled in different courses of study (such as economics) at the University of the German Federal Armed...
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