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Political polarization has ruptured the fabric of U.S. society. I quantify this phenomenon through the use of 5 pre … existing polarization in the context of Donald J. Trump. I find strong heterogeneous effects: ingroup-love occurs in the … to cooperate. In a final step, I test whether popular behavioral interventions (defaults and norm-nudging) can eradicate …
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The paper investigates the introduction of an institution, in form of an impartial authority (third party), into a two-person situation. The impartial authority can reward a stranger for acting according to a desired behavioral norm. The reward is costly for the authority and her behavior cannot...
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The paper investigates the introduction of an institution, in form of an impartial authority (third party), into a two-person situation. The impartial authority can reward a stranger for acting according to a desired behavioral norm. The reward is costly for the authority and her behavior cannot...
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We consider the notions of static and dynamic reasonableness of requests in a trust game experiment. We vary systematically the experimental norm of what is expected from trustees to return to trustors, both in terms of level of each request and in terms of sequence of the requests. Static...
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true for nonenforceable contracts. The relationship of entitlements and obligations to norms is also discussed. …
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This paper reviews the literature on culture and economics, focusing primarily on the epidemiological approach. The epidemiological approach studies the variation in outcomes across different immigrant groups residing in the same country. Immigrants presumably differ in their cultures but share...
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shares specified are often based on focal points or historical norms, and seem excessively uniform given large and observable … that contractual norms have measurable effects on factor returns. I find that tenants on higher-quality farmland capture a …
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disciplines, viz., groups, norms and sanctions. Secondly, it must be couched in a language familiar to the economics profession … to support the procurement of the group's collective good and submits to a system of norms and to the corresponding self …-organized sanctions regime punishing violation of group norms. The agent solves a sequence of optimization problems: the first determines …
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