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investigate the incentives to expend effort for a prize that produces consumption externalities and consider alternative … regulatory policies. We find relatively more global consumption externalities will increase (decrease) rent seeking when … consumption externalities are negative (positive). We show how introducing Pigouvian taxation (possibly with revenue transfer) and …
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When agents face coordination problems their choices often impose externalities on third parties. We investigate … whether such externalities can affect equilibrium selection in a series of one-shot coordination games varying the size and … the sign of the externality. We find that third-party externalities have a limited effect on decisions. A large majority …
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Sanctions are often so weak that a money maximizing individual would not be deterred. In this paper I show that they may nonetheless serve a forward looking purpose if sufficiently many individuals are averse against advantageous inequity. Using the Fehr/Schmidt model (QJE 1999) I define three...
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Sanctions are often so weak that a money maximizing individual would not be deterred. In this paper I show that they may nonetheless serve a forward looking purpose if sufficiently many individuals are averse against advantageous inequity. Using the Fehr/Schmidt model (QJE 1999) I define three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009742336
investigate the incentives to expend effort for a prize that produces consumption externalities and consider alternative … regulatory policies. We find relatively more global consumption externalities will increase (decrease) rent seeking when con …- sumption externalities are negative (positive). We show how introducing Pigouvian taxation (possibly with revenue transfer) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753175
When agents face coordination problems their choices often impose externalities on third parties. We investigate … whether such externalities can affect equilibrium selection in a series of one-shot coordination games varying the size and … the sign of the externality. We find that third-party externalities have a limited effect on decisions. A large majority …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075109
We use a modified die-rolling experiment to study whether negative externality affects a group's decisions about whether to cheat. Our results show that group members are less likely to lie when faced with a passive out-group player only if two members of the group share an unequal payment for...
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We show that concerns for fairness may have dramatic consequences for the optimal provision of incentives in a moral hazard context. Incentive contracts that are optimal when there are only selfish actors become inferior when some agents are concerned about fairness. Conversely, contracts that...
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