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Title:The whip and the Bible : punishment versus internalization Author(s):DUTTA, Rohan EUI affiliated

; MODICA, SalvatoreDate:2021Citation: Journal of public economic theory, 2021, OnlineFirst Type:ArticleAbstract:A variety of experimental and empirical research indicate that prosocial behavior is important for economic success. There are two sources of prosocial behavior: incentives and preferences. The latter, the willingness of ...

Title:More fair play in an ultimatum game after resettlement in Zimbabwe : a field experiment and a structural model Author(s):KOHLER, StefanDate:2013Citation: PLoS ONE, 2013, Vol. 8, No. 5, e64791 Type:ArticleAbstract:Zimbabwean villagers of distinct background have resettled in government-organized land reforms for more than three decades. Against this backdrop, I assess the level of social cohesion in some of the newly established ...

Title:Is Behavioral Economics Doomed? The Ordinary versus the Extraordinary Author(s):LEVINE, David K. EUI affiliated

Date:2009Type:OtherSeries/Number:EUI MWP LS; 2009/03Abstract:Behavioral economics is an effort to bring psychological and emotional aspects of human behavior into economic theory. Critics of existing theory, including many psychologists and behavioral economists, poorly understand ...

Title:Inequality Aversion and Stochastic Decision-making: Experimental Evidence from Zimbabwean Villages after Land Reform Author(s):KOHLER, StefanDate:2007Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:GPRG Working Paper; 2006/61Abstract:Inequality considerations are a motive for making positive offers in the Ultimatum Game and rejecting small ones, but decision error could have the same effect. I find evidence for both of these considerations and a ...

Title:Bargaining and human sociality : an experimental economic approach Author(s):KOHLER, StefanDate:2007Citation: Florence : European University Institute, 2007 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This thesis adheres to the fundamental principle of maximizing behavior and equilibrium and shows how behavioral economic assumption of preferences, which go beyond self-interest, makes microeconomic theory applicable to ...

Title:Learning, evolution and price dispersion Author(s):HOPKINS, EdDate:1996Citation: Florence, European University Institute, 1996 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Economics

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