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Corruption and ethnicity on the African continent: the mediating role of institutions

Bonga-Bonga, Lumengo; Kirsten, Frederich - 2024

While numerous studies have explored variations in ethnic divisions and corruption outcomes at the macro level, few studies examine whether individual corruption experiences at the micro level vary systematically depending on ethnic group affiliation, particularly when accounting for...

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Underemployment and Shadow Economy; Is There a Structural Relationship? A Lab-Experimental Test

Samaranayake, D.I.J.; Dayaratna-Banda, O.G. - 2019

This study examined the potential link between the shadow economy and underemployment through a controlled laboratory experiment. The study involved 240 undergraduate participants from the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka. It consisted of eight meticulously managed sessions, with 30...

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Generosity during Covid-19 the effect of social distancing and framing on donations in dictator games

Lotti, Lorenzo - 2020

This paper investigates the impact of prolonged social distancing on generosity by analyzing the responses of 1255 US citizens to dictator games spread out over eight weeks of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the isolation and the negative effects on employment and household...

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Социокультурная архитектура: значимость параметров культурного кода в векторе экономического развития

Anicina, Nadejda; Stukach, Victor - 2024

Sociocultural architecture: the importance of the parameters of the cultural code in the vector of economic development The purpose is to explore the substantive aspects of socio-cultural architecture, the importance of the parameters of the cultural code in the vector of economic development....

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The Single Mindedness Theory of Labor Unions

canegrati, emanuele - 2006

. Furthermore, I exploit the Single Mindedness theory, which considers the existence of a density function which endogenously …

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New Economics

Obregon, Carlos - 2020

economic theory. The main problem of traditional economy is that it has not taken seriously the need to explore the … themselves, have perniciously enter into microeconomics, macroeconomics and economic growth theory. And as a consequence we do … economic theory. The main purpose of this manuscript is to delineate the route towards the consolidation of such a new theory. …

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The Effectiveness of Green-Nudges in Promoting Water Conservation

Rila, R.; Mithursan, A.; Samaranayake, D.I.J. - 2024

The study makes an effort to experiment the effectiveness of green nudges in promoting water conservation and fostering a sustainability mindset in an educational setting. The objective of the study is to explore the potential for fostering a sustainability mindset at the school level by using...

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Strategy-proof Non-dictatorial Social Choice Functions in Clockwise Circular Domain

De, Parikshit; Sharma, Aditi - 2024

Restricting domain had always been an approach to find out strategy proof social choice function in a voting setup where the society would choose one alternative from the individual preferences. By restricting the domain to a single peaked domain, Moulin (1980) found strategy-proof...

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Pricing group membership

Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartha; Cabrales, Antonio - 2020

We consider a model where agents differ in their `types' which determines their voluntary contribution towards a public good. We analyze what the equilibrium composition of groups are under centralized and centralized choice. We show that there exists a top-down sorting equilibrium i.e. an...

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Acyclic social welfare

Lahiri, Somdeb - 2009

In this paper we show that if the Pareto relation is acyclic then the set of all Pareto optimal social states coincides with chosen social states of acyclic Paretian social welfare relations. Subsequently we show that given an acyclic Paretian social welfare relations the set of all social...

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