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Economic preferences and attitudes of the unemployed
Constant, Amelie F.; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - In: International Journal of Manpower 32 (2011) 7, pp. 825-851
Purpose – The aim of this paper is to study the economic effects of risk attitudes, time preferences, trust and … reciprocity and to compare natives and second generation migrants. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on the IZA … and positive reciprocity. Second generation migrants have a significantly higher willingness to take risks and they are …
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Market Power and the Lerner Index: A Classroom Experiment
Rojas, Christian - In: Journal of Industrial Organization Education 5 (2011) 1, pp. 1-19
We describe a classroom experiment that illustrates the concepts of market power and the Lerner Index. Students are organized in groups, each making a decision for a monopolist. Monopolists face different (unknown) demand curves, each with a different (constant) elasticity. Through repetition,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014613586
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International Environmental Cooperation under Fairness and Reciprocity
Hadjiyiannis, Costas; İriş, Doruk; Tabakis, Chrysostomos - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 12 (2012) 1
Abstract This paper explores the implications of fairness and reciprocity for self-enforcing international … environmental agreements on pollution abatement. Reciprocal countries reward fair behavior (positive reciprocity), but retaliate … against countries behaving unfairly (negative reciprocity). We demonstrate that reciprocal countries that have moderate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014586873
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Der Mangel an Spenderorganen – Ursachen und Lösungsmöglichkeiten aus ökonomischer Sicht / The Shortage of Transplants – An Economic Analysis of Causes and Possible Solutions
Breyer, Friedrich; Kliemt, Hartmut - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 227 (2007) 5-6, pp. 466-484
, reciprocity in organ allocation, better payments for hospitals and for donors are proposed as potential remedies.  …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014609160
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Mitigating Extortive Corruption? Experimental Evidence
Khachatryan, Elina; Kube, Sebastian; Vollan, Björn - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 235 (2015) 2, pp. 228-244
Summary Extortive petty corruption takes place when a public official elicits small bribes from citizens for providing public services that the citizens are legally entitled to receive. We implement a novel experimental design that mimics this phenomenon and explores bottom-up approaches for its...
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Does Participation Increase Outcome Acceptance? Evidence from a Power-to-take Experiment
Mertins, Vanessa; Albert, Max - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 235 (2015) 6, pp. 584-607
Summary It is often conjectured that participatory decision making may increase acceptance, especially of unfavorable decisions. The present paper tests this conjecture in a three-person power-to-take experiment. Two takers decide which fraction of the responder’s endowment to transfer to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014609548
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Tweets for tots: using Twitter to promote a charity and its supporters
Soboleva, Alena; Burton, Suzan; Daellenbach, Kate; … - In: Journal of Consumer Marketing 34 (2017) 6, pp. 515-523
Purpose Twitter provides an ideal channel for a non-profit organisation (NPO) to add value to its corporate partners by providing the ability to send tweets to its own network of followers. This research aims to examine the extent to which one NPO used Twitter for this purpose and discuss the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014849967
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A comparative study of reciprocity in international physician licensing
Pande, Vivek - In: International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare … 8 (2014) 3, pp. 265-283
for foreign physician licensure to evaluate the extent of reciprocity among these countries. We conclude the paper by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014796051
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Transitivity, hierarchy and reciprocity of organizational communication network during crisis
Murshed, Shahriar Tanvir Hasan; Uddin, Shahadat; … - In: International Journal of Organizational Analysis 23 (2015) 1, pp. 2-20
Purpose – This paper aims to explore changes in communication networks during organizational crisis. In the literature, various terms such as organizational mortality, organizational death, bankruptcy, decline, retrenchment and failure have been used to characterize different forms and facets...
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Understanding reciprocity in organizations: a US‐China comparison
Hu, Xiaoxiao; Tetrick, Lois; Shore, Lynn M. - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 26 (2011) 7, pp. 528-548
Purpose – The goal of this paper is to examine the relation of reciprocity to organizational commitment and the … of reciprocity on organizational commitment and the employment exchange relationship. Findings – The three dimensions of … reciprocity were related to organizational commitment and the employment exchange relationship in all three samples. Nonetheless …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014888194