Avoiding the cost of your conscience: belief dependent preferences and information acquisition

Pro-social individuals face a trade-off between their monetary and moral motives. Hence, they may be tempted to exploit the uncertainty in their decision environment in order to reconcile this trade-off. In this paper, we investigate whether individuals with belief-dependent preferences avoid the mo...

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Main Authors: Rimbaud, Claire (Author) , Soldà, Alice (Author)
Format: Book/Monograph Working Paper
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg 07 Sep. 2021
Series:AWI discussion paper series no. 705 (July 2021)
In: AWI discussion paper series (no. 705 (July 2021))

DOI:10.11588/heidok.00030443
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Author Notes:Claire Rimbaud, Alice Soldà

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