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Sensitivity of economists during market allocation

Suttner, Johannes Rolf - 2014

microeconomic theory, the market affinity of economists increased in both cases, but their sensitivity persisted. Surprisingly, it …

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Chapter 6 Reciprocity: Its Scope, Rationales, and Consequences

Kolm, Serge-Christophe - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 371-541). 2006

in questions of development. The theory of reciprocity shows and compares the various types of solutions of the …

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Driving forces behind informal sanctions

Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - 2005

This paper investigates the driving forces behind informal sanctions in cooperation games and the extent to which theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators' punishment is almost exclusively targeted towards the defectors but the latter also impose a...

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Why and how identity should influence utility

Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2007 - This Version: January 11, 2007

This paper provides an argument for the advantage of a preference for identity-consistent behaviour from an evolutionary point of view. Within a stylised model of social interaction, we show that the development of cooperative social norms is greatly facilitated if the agents of the society...

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Chapter 24 Selfishness, altruism and normative principles in the economic analysis of social transfers

Blanchet, Didier; Fleurbaey, Marc - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1465-1503). 2006

This chapter examines the role of altruistic motives in the economic analysis of public social transfers, both from a positive and from a normative point of view. The positive question is to know whether we can fully neglect altruistic considerations to explain the development or sustainability...

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Self-serving bias in redistribution choices : accounting for beliefs and norms

Amasino, Dianna; Pace, Davide Domenico; Weele, Joël J. … - 2023

People with higher-incomes tend to support less redistribution than lower-income people. This has been attributed not only to self-interest, but also to psychological mechanisms including differing beliefs about the hard work or luck underlying inequality, differing fairness views, and differing...

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Not Guilty? : Another Look at the Nature and Nurture of Economics Students

Haucap, Justus; Just, Tobias - 2003

In this paper, we examine students' attitudes towards various allocation mechanisms for a scarce resource. For this purpose, we have run a survey among officers of the German military who are enrolled in different courses of study (such as economics) at the University of the German Federal Armed...

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Not guilty? Another look at the nature and nurture of economics students

Haucap, Justus; Just, Tobias - 2003

Economists praise the efficiency of the price mechanism in allocating scarce resources. Others, however, often reject it as unfair. In this study, we investigate the extent to which economists also differ from non-economists in how they value the fairness of the price system, and examine how...

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Sensitivity of economists during market allocation

Suttner, Johannes R. - 2014

microeconomic theory, the market affinity of economists increased in both cases, but their sensitivity persisted. Surprisingly, it …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010392311

Jon Elster und das Problem lokaler Gerechtigkeit

Pies, Ingo; Viebranz, Jörg - 2007

Untersuchung ist zweigeteilt. Der erste Teil rekonstruiert Elsters Beiträge zu einer Theorie lokaler Gerechtigkeit. Der zweite Teil … betreffen zum einen den Erklärungsgehalt seiner Analysen ((4)). Sie betreffen zum anderen den normativen Ertrag seiner Theorie … lokaler Gerechtigkeit für eine allgemeine Theorie sozialer Gerechtigkeit ((5)). Der Beitrag endet mit einer abschließenden …

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