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Entscheidungsfreiheit als Grundlage wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Forschung. Bezüge zwischen Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Ethik und Neurobiologie
Küpper, Hans-Ulrich - 2006
Entscheidungstheorie durch Ethik und Neurobiologie in Frage gestellt wird. Nach dem in ihm entwickelten Verständnis von Unternehmensethik … by ethics and neurobiology. It argues for an understanding of busi-ness ethics which sees the economic agents’ freedom of … developments in behav-ioural economics, ethics and neurobiology, it argues for the extension of this concept by con-sciously or …
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Theoretische Grundlagen demokratischer Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftspolitik: Der Beitrag von William Baumol
Pies, Ingo - 2010
This article analyzes William Baumol's contributions to economics ethics and to business ethics. Furthermore, it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011733792
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Seeking harmony amidst diversity: Consensus building with network externalities
Chen, Chia-Hui; Ishida, Junichiro - 2011
A group of individuals, with a potential conflict of interest, face a choice among alternatives. There is a network externality such that the chosen alternative yields value only if sufficiently many individuals get on board. Their preferences for each alternative and the benefit derived from a...
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Extremism within the family
Epstein, Gil S. - 2006
This paper considers an economic analysis of intergenerational transition of ethnic and social trait. We consider the level of social traits chosen by parents and its effect on their children's choice of ethnic and social traits when reaching adulthood. We develop a theory that suggests that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267992
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The focusing and informational effects of norms on pro-social behavior
Krupka, Erin; Weber, Roberto A. - 2007
This paper reports an experiment examining the effect of social norms on pro-social behavior. We test two predictions derived from work in psychology regarding the influence of norms. The first is a focusing influence, whereby norms only impact behavior when an individual's attention is drawn to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268327
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Wie Corona das gesellschaftliche Miteinander verändern kann
Mantha-Hollands, Ashley; Orgad, Liav - 2020
In der Corona-Pandemie verzichten die Menschen auf das Händeschütteln. Könnte der medizinisch empfohlene Verzicht in Europa auch einen kulturellen Wandel einläuten?
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Civic Capital and Social Distancing during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Barrios, John M.; Benmelech, Efraim; Hochberg, Yael V.; … - 2020
The success of non-pharmaceutical interventions to contain pandemics often depends greatly upon voluntary compliance with government guidelines. What explains variation in voluntary compliance? Using mobile phone and survey data, we show that during the early phases of COVID- 19, voluntary...
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Social Norms and the Evolution of Conditional Cooperation
Spichtig, Mathias; Traxler, Christian - 2007
This paper develops a model of social norms and cooperation in large societies. Within this framework we use an indirect evolutionary approach to study the endogenous formation of preferences and the coevolution of norm compliance. Thereby we link the multiplicity of equilibria, which emerges in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427487
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Family ties, incentives and development: A model of coerced altruism
Alger, Ingela; Weibull, Jörgen W. - 2007
We analyze the effects of family ties on the incentives for production of effort, where family ties are defined as a mixture of true and coerced altruism between family members. We model families as pairs of siblings. Each sibling exerts effort in order to obtain output under uncertainty. A...
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Changing identity: Retiring from unemployment
Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2011
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2009, we follow persons from their working life into their retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in...
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