serve as both imperfect socialization technologies and potentially informative signals that such socialization has taken … exchange under asymmetric information: the basic two-type screening model and a game-theoretic version of Akerlof's market for …

- economic, social and spiritual. Caritas in Veritate, as every encyclical is a letter, an invitation to exchange. The comments …

the existence of altruism and exchange motives in inter vivos transfers received by the Malaysian Muslim respondents. This … assets for the purpose of estate planning. We find exchange motive is more applicable among respondents and physical assets …

that inter vivos 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 …

are gifts, and not temporary help to overcome liquidity constraints. Second, inter vivos gifts are compensatory in the … gifts do not, however, make up the entire difference in life-time incomes. …

This paper tests for the motives for private income transfers. We consider two motives: altruism and exchange. The … consistent with exchange. We also find that capital market imperfections are likely to be an important cause of private transfers …