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How Do Consumers Respond When Default Options Push the Envelope?
Beshears, John - 2017
Many employers have increased the default contribution rates in their retirement plans, generating higher employee savings. However, a large fraction of employers are reluctant to default employees into savings rates that are high enough to leave those employees adequately prepared for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945908
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Collective Self-Control
Lizzeri, Alessandro; Yariv, Leeat - 2012
Behavioral economics presents a "paternalistic" rationale for intervention by a benevolent government. This paper studies the desirability of various forms of collective action when government decisions are determined via the political process in response to votes by time inconsistent voters. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014167238
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Does Market Interaction Erode Moral Values?
Özdemir, Yagiz - 2020
The widespread use of markets leads to unprecedented material well-being in many societies. We study whether market interaction, as a side effect, erodes moral values. An encompassing understanding of the virtues and vices of markets, including their possible impact on moral values, is necessary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823552
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Does Market Interaction Erode Moral Values?
Bartling, Björn - 2020
The widespread use of markets leads to unprecedented material well-being in many societies. We study whether market interaction, as a side effect, erodes moral values. An encompassing understanding of the virtues and vices of markets, including their possible impact on moral values, is necessary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824148
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Does Market Interaction Erode Moral Values?
Bartling, Björn - 2020
The widespread use of markets leads to unprecedented material well-being in many societies. We study whether market interaction, as a side effect, erodes moral values. An encompassing understanding of the virtues and vices of markets, including their possible impact on moral values, is necessary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824249
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Does market interaction erode moral values?
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Özdemir, Yagiz - 2021 - Revised version
The widespread use of markets leads to unprecedented material well-being in many societies. We study whether market interaction, as a side effect, erodes moral values. In an influential paper, Falk and Szech (2013) provide experimental data that seem to suggest that "market interaction erodes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420325
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Does market interaction erode moral values?
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Özdemir, Yagiz - 2020
The widespread use of markets leads to unprecedented material well-being in many societies. We study whether market interaction, as a side effect, erodes moral values. An encompassing understanding of the virtues and vices of markets, including their possible impact on moral values, is necessary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012267937
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Does market interaction erode moral values?
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Özdemir, Yagiz - 2020
The widespread use of markets leads to unprecedented material well-being in many societies. We study whether market interaction, as a side effect, erodes moral values. An encompassing understanding of the virtues and vices of markets, including their possible impact on moral values, is necessary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270575
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Pleasures of Skill and Moral Conduct
Falk, Armin - 2016
This paper provides controlled experimental evidence that striving for pleasures of skill can have negative moral consequences and causally reduce moral values. Subjects perform an IQ-test. They know that each correctly solved question increases the likelihood of moral transgression. In terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997309
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Emotion Expression in Human Punishment Behavior
Xiao, Erte; Houser, Daniel - 2009
Evolutionary theory reveals that punishment is effective in promoting cooperation and maintaining social norms …. Although it is accepted that emotions are connected to punishment decisions, there remains substantial debate over why humans … use costly punishment. Here we show experimentally that constraints on emotion expression can increase the use of costly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014062738