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Moral Norms in a Partly Compliant Society
This paper analyses competition of moral norms and institutions in a society where a fixed share of people unconditionally complies with norms and the remaining people act selfishly. Whether a person is a norm-complier or selfish is private knowledge. A model of voting-by-feet shows that those norms and institutions arise that maximize expected utility of norm-compliers, taken into account selfish players' behavior. Such complier optimal norms lead to a simple behavioral model that, when combined with preferences for equitable outcomes, is in line with the relevant stylized facts from a wide range of economic experiments, like reciprocal behavior, costly punishment, the role of intentions, giving in dictator games and concerns for social efficiency. The paper contributes to the literature on voting-by-feet, institutional design, ethics and social preferences.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Bonn Econ Discussion Papers ; No. 11/2006
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Wirtschaft
Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations
Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
Relation of Economics to Social Values
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
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moral norms
social preferences
reciprocity
fairness
rule utilitarianism
voting-by-feet
cultural evolution
golden rule
social norms
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Kranz, Sebastian
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Bonn, Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE)
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Bonn
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2006
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- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Kranz, Sebastian
- University of Bonn, Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE)
Time of origin
- 2006
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