This paper uses a CGT TU game modified into a coordination experiment to explore the causal effect of context on players’ behaviour. An analytical framework focusing on four attributes representative of the game’s context is proposed and an experimental protocol based on this framework...

We investigate experimentally whether higher trust leads to increased performance by relying on simple trust games. Our results show that trust and performance are positively related but not as strong as suggested in the investment game. As a side result, we observe that the rewards of the...

Over the last four decades, several estimation issues of the beta have been discussed extensively in many articles. An emerging consensus is that the betas are time-dependant and their estimates are impacted by the return interval and the length of the estimation period. These findings lead to...

This paper provides general theorems about the control that maxi- mizes the mixed Bentham-Rawls (MBR) criterion for intergenerational justice, which was introduced in Alvarez-Cuadrado and Long (2009). We establish sufficient concavity conditions for a candidate trajectory to be optimal and...

A limited but growing literature contends that licensing can operate by committing to a virtuous act in a preceding choice, which reduces negative self-attributions associated with donating less or behaving less virtuously in the succeeding decision. Psychological research and behavioral...

Cet article traite du rôle joué par les émotions incidentes dans les préférences altruistes. Nous envisageons cette question dans le cadre des comportements pro- environnementaux à travers les dons que font les individus pour les associations de protection de lenvironnement. La...

Reciprocity considerations are important to the tax compliance problem as they may explain the global dynamics of tax evasion, beyond individual tax evasion decisions, toward a downward or upward spiral. To provide evidence on reciprocity in tax compliance decisions, we have conducted a...

We studied the effect of health events (accidents and chronic diseases) on the occupation probabilities at the individual level, while accounting for both correlated individual and time effects. Using difference-in-differences with exact matching estimators, we found that health events have a...

La relation entre le Système Communautaire d’Echange de Quotas d’Emission (SCEQE) et le Mecanisme de Développement Propre (MDP) intéresse aujourd’hui de nombreux pays du monde. Le MDP est considéré comme l’un des principaux outils qui permet aux pays d’augmenter leur rentabilité...

This paper explores whether previous good deeds may license non-cooperative behavior such as damaging a social surplus for private benefits in Madagascar. We designed a two steps framed experiment, with one control and three treatments. In the first step, the three treatments consist in a task...