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This paper identifies the systematic place of civil society from the perspective of an economic theory of morality … cooperation for mutual benefit (a) by providing society at the best possible rate with (public) goods, (b) by continuously …
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"This dissertation explores the cooperative idea as defined by Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch and Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen and the moral philosophy of Adam Smith. Recently - and perhaps more than ever before - people are realising that cooperatives play a special role in society. Citing reasons...
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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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The option of adapting to climate change is becoming more important in climate change policy. Hence, responding to climate change now involves both mitigation to address the cause and adaptation as a response to already ongoing or expected changes. These changes are also of relevance for the...
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A widely held view is that increasing globalisation and inequality are fostering support for populist actors. Surprisingly, when focusing on Germany and the U.S., populist voting is highest in less globalised regions with rather equal income distributions. Addressing this puzzle, I ask how the...
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A growing literature in economics uses subjective well-being data collected in surveys as a proxy for utility. Environmental economists have combined these data with the public goods experienced by respondents using a novel non-market valuation approach: the experienced preference approach. In...
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correlate with expectations about cooperation by others among students and other demographic subgroups. However, we lack … knowledge about whether the effect of expected cooperation is causal and a general feature of populations. We fielded … a novel between-subjects experiment. The experiment varied expectations about cooperation by others. We find that higher …
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Häufig erfahren die Bürger wenig über den Nutzen öffentlicher Güter im Vergleich zum Steueropfer, das sie dafür aufbringen müssen: Gegenüber öffentlichen Gütern besteht keine Konsumentensouveränität. Als Ersatz dafür könnte wenigstens eine Wählersouveränität bei öffentlichen...
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We examine the value of sporting success of the 2014 Football World Cup in Brazil by using a method that allows measuring non-market goods, the contingent valuation method (CVM). Besides the value of sporting success in form of the willingness-to-pay (WTP), we determine what influences the WTP...
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