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We study the regulation of a morally responsible agent in the context of a negative consumption externality and … moral responsibility. Employing a motivation-crowding model, we find that morally motivated behavior will, in general, not …
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moral motivation. -- Altruism ; externality ; moral motivation ; motivation crowding ; Pareto efficiency ; regulation …We study the regulation of a morally responsible agent in the context of a negative consumption externality and …We study the regulation of a morally responsible agent in the context of a negative consumption externality and …
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We study the regulation of a morally responsible agent in the context of a negative consumption externality and … moral responsibility. Employing a motivation-crowding model, we find that morally motivated behavior will, in general, not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014169044
This paper studies how imposing norms on contribution behavior affects individuals' intrinsic motivation. We consider the church levy, which the Catholic Church in Germany collects as a charitable donation, despite the fact that the levy is legally a tax. We design a randomized field experiment...
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This paper addresses the question whether taxes on unhealthy food are suitable for internalizing intergenerational …
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Reciprocity is one of the main basic social relations that constitute societies. It consists of being favourable to others because others are favourable to you (and not from an exchange in the strict sense). It rests on three possible rationales: (1) balance (comparison, matching), often related...
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This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory...
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Altruism, giving and pro-social conduct, and reciprocity, are the basis of the existence and performance of societies … (which they sometimes also create); and in charity and specific organizations. Altruism has various origins: it can be … hedonistic or natural altruism in empathy, affection, sympathy, emotional contagion, pity, and compassion; or normative altruism …
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formation, and reproductive externalities. -- Altruism ; spite ; externalities ; conformity ; fixation ; signalling …
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This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People have access to multiple, discrete motives....
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