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Todd R. Kaplan and Bradley J. Ruffle (University of Exeter – Department of Economics and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev – Department of Economics) have posted Here's Something You Never Asked For, Didn't Know Existed, and Can't Easily Obtain: A Search Model of Gift Giving on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Gift giving is thought to be…
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Edwar E. Escalante (Norris-Vincent College of Business at Angelo State University; Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University) & Raymond March (North Dakota State University – Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics; North Dakota State University – NDSU Center for the Study of Public Choice and Private Enterprise) have posted Fighting on Christmas: Brawling as Self-Governance in…
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Jeroen van de Ven (University of Amsterdam) has posted The Economics Of The Gift on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In the past, gift-giving has interested mainly anthropologists because it was taken to be a primitive mode of exchange. Recent contributions of economists acknowledge however that gift-giving is still present in modern exchange economies. In this paper…
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Flóra A. Felsö and Adriaan R. Soetevent (Delft University of Technology and University of Amsterdam – Amsterdam School of Economics) have posted How Consumers Use Gift Certificates on SSRN. Here is the abstract: There are two important reasons for consumers to spend gift certificates differently than gifts in cash or non-gift income: a) they are forced to…
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Jordi Brandts (Instituto de Analisis Economico (CSIC) Barcelona) & Gary Charness (University of California, Santa Barbara – Department of Economics) have posted Do Labour Market Conditions Affect Gift Exchange? Some Experimental Evidence on SSRN. Here is the abstract: We study how two dimensions of market conditions affect behaviour in experimental gift‐exchange markets with repeated interaction. First, we…
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Miguel Luzuriaga (Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences) & Oliver Kunze (Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences) have posted The Risk-Distributional Preferences and Risk-Aversion Paradox: A Gift-Exchange Experiment on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In a principal-agent setting, offering maximum levels of incentives, i.e., the compensation is completely variable, is far from optimal because this reduces the principal`s profits,…
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Lisa A. Cavanaugh, Francesca Gino and Gavan J. Fitzsimons (University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business, Harvard University – Harvard Business School and Duke University – Fuqua School of Business) have posted When Doing Good Is Bad in Gift Giving: Mis-Predicting Appreciation of Socially Responsible Gifts (Forthcoming, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes)…
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Emel Filiz-Ozbay (University of Maryland – Economics), John C. Ham (University of Maryland), John H. Kagel (Ohio State University (OSU) – Department of Economics), & Erkut Y Ozbay (University of Maryland – Department of Economics) have posted The Role of Cognitive Ability, Personality Traits and Gender in Gift Exchange Outcomes on SSRN. Here is the abstract: We…
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Xiaofei Pan and Erte Xiao (George Mason University – Department of Economics and Carnegie Mellon University – Department of Social and Decision Sciences) have posted It's Not Just the Thought that Counts: An Experimental Study on Hidden Cost of Giving on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Receiving a gift can create an impulse to reciprocate,…
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Daniel A. Crane (University of Michigan Law School) has posted The Law on Christmas on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In this pathbreaking and important (but not really) Article, I analyze all of the (107) judicial decisions ever rendered in state or federal court on Christmas Day. Not for the fainthearted.