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Zum zeitlichen Umfang ehrenamtlichen Engagements in Sportvereinen – sozioökonomische Modellbildung und empirische Prüfung
Flatau, Jens; Emrich, Eike; Pierdzioch, Christian - Fächergruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre, Helmut Schmidt … - 2012
Auf der Basis eines mittels einer Onlinebefragung erhobenen Datensatzes wird auf der Basis der haushalts- bzw … Fußballvereinen geleisteten Arbeit von der Art der zugrundeliegenden Motive abhängig ist. Dabei wird auch auf Motiv … intrinsischegoistischer und altruistischer Motive steigt, wohingegen extrinsisch-egoistische Motive keinen systematischen Einfluss auf den …
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Defaults and Attention: The Drop Out Effect
Caplin, Andrew; Martin, Daniel J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
When choice options are complex, policy makers may seek to reduce decision making errors by making a high quality option the default. We show that this positive effect is at risk because such a policy creates incentives for decision makers to "drop out" by paying no attention to the decision and...
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Property Taxation, Bounded Rationality and House Prices
Elinder, Mikael; Persson, Lovisa - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
In 2008, the Swedish property tax was reformed and a cap on yearly tax liabilities was introduced. A large fraction of owner occupied houses was subject to a substantial decrease in the tax. When the reform was announced, most analysts projected – in line with tax capitalization theory –...
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Property taxation, bounded rationality and housing prices
Elinder, Mikael; Persson, Lovisa - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2014
In 2008, the Swedish property tax was reformed and a cap on yearly tax liabilities was introduced. A large fraction of owner occupied houses was subject to a substantial decrease in the tax. When the reform was announced, most analysts projected - in line with tax capitalization theory - that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818816
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When Consumers Do Not Make an Active Decision: Dynamic Default Rules and their Equilibrium Effects
Ericson, Keith M. Marzilli - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Dynamic defaults for recurring purchases determine what happens to consumers enrolled in a product or service who take no action at a decision point. Consumers may face automatic renewal, automatic switching, or non-purchase defaults. Privately optimal dynamic defaults depend on the...
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A Reduced-Form Approach to Behavioral Public Finance
Mullainathan, Sendhil; Schwartzstein, Joshua; Congdon, … - In: Annual Review of Economics 4 (2012) 1, pp. 511-540
Research in behavioral public finance has blossomed in recent years, producing diverse empirical and theoretical insights. This article develops a single framework with which to understand these advances. Rather than drawing out the consequences of specific psychological assumptions, the...
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An Old Measure of Decision-Making Quality Sheds New Light on Paternalism
Kariv, Shachar; Silverman, Dan - In: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 169 (2013) 1, pp. 29-44
Definitive judgment about the quality of decision-making is made difficult by twin problems of measurement and identification. A measure of decision-making quality is hard to formalize, to quantify, and to make practical for use in a variety of choice environments; and it is difficult to...
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Property taxation, bounded rationality and housing prices
Elinder, Mikael; Persson, Lovisa - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2014
In 2008, the Swedish property tax was reformed and a cap on yearly tax liabilities was introduced. A large fraction of owner occupied houses was subject to a substantial decrease in the tax. When the reform was announced, most analysts projected - in line with tax capitalization theory - that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775643
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Economic Incentives and Social Preferences: Substitutes or Complements?
Bowles, S.; S. Polania-Reyes. - In: VOPROSY ECONOMIKI 4 (2013)
Part 1 Explicit economic incentives designed to increase contributions to public goods and to promote other pro-social behavior sometimes are counterproductive or less effective than would be predicted among entirely self-interested individuals. This may occur when incentives adversely affect...
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Economic Incentives and Social Preferences: Substitutes or Complements?
Bowles, S.; S. Polania-Reyes. - In: VOPROSY ECONOMIKI 5 (2013)
Part 2 In the second part of the paper concrete forms and examples of the effects of incentives on the social preferences are shown and experiments are described where these effects occur. The authors claim that the negative consequences of the incentives are connected less to the incentives...
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