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On the Samaritan's Dilemma, foreign aid, and freedom
Faria, João Ricardo; Arce M., Daniel G. - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 4/53, pp. 1-17
’s Dilemma. Such a policy requires the donor to temper the degree of altruism that motivates its provision of economic aid to the …
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Essays in foreign aid, conflicts, and development
Kuisma, Kirsti - 2005
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Foreign aid as prize : incentives for a pro-poor policy
Sayanak, Tejashree (contributor); Lahiri, Sajal (contributor) - 2008
We develop a theoretical model of foreign aid to analyse a method of disbursement of aid which induces the recipient government to follow a more pro-poor policy than it otherwise would do. In our two-period model, aid is given in the second period and the volume of it depends on the level of...
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Optimal income transfers and tariffs
Lahiri, Sajal; Raimondos-Møller, Pascalis; Wong, Kar-yiu; … - 1997
This paper investigates the optimality of international income transfers in a two-country model in which each country engages in non-cooperative trade policy behaviour. It is shown that unconditional income transfers can never be optimal for the donor country, which not only suffers the loss of...
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Optimal income transfers and tariffs
Lahiri, Sajal (contributor) - 1997
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Dynamic collective choice with endogenous status quo
Dziuda, Wioletta; Loeper, Antoine - 2012 - First version: December 2009
This paper analyzes an ongoing bargaining situation in which preferences evolve over time and the previous agreement becomes the next status quo, determining the payoffs until a new agreement is reached. We show that the endogeneity of the status quo exacerbates the players' conflict of interest...
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Development aid : an admission of guilt?
In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 3 (1968) 2, pp. 37
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Selfish altruism, fierce cooperation and the emergence of cooperative equilibria from passing and shooting
Askitas, Nikos - 2014
There is continuing debate about what explains cooperation and self-sacrifice in nature and in particular in humans. This paper suggests a new way to think about this famous problem. I argue that, for an evolutionary biologist as well as a quantitative social scientist, the triangle of two...
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Strategic behavior of moralists and altruists
Alger, Ingela; Weibull, Jörgen W. - In: Games 8 (2017) 3, pp. 1-21
Does altruism and morality lead to socially better outcomes in strategic interactions than selfishness? We shed some … material payoff if others were to act like himself or herself. It turns out that both altruism and morality may improve or … worsen equilibrium outcomes, depending on the nature of the game. Not surprisingly, both altruism and morality improve the …
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Chapter 11 Natural Kantian or ZOO ECONOMICUS ? Evolutionary theories of selfishness and altruism among men and beasts
Bergstrom, Theodore C. - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 771-817). 2006
This paper addresses the question of whether our evolutionary history suggests that humans are likely to be individually selected selfish maximizers or group selected altruists. It surveys models from the literature of evolutionary biology in which groups are formed and dissolved and where the...
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