The Relevance of Social Norms for Economic Efficiency: Theory and its Empirical Test
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Keywords
Consumer theory; social norms; social interactions; household production model; economic efficiency;
All these keywords.JEL classification:
- D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EVO-2013-05-11 (Evolutionary Economics)
- NEP-HME-2013-05-11 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
- NEP-SOC-2013-05-11 (Social Norms and Social Capital)
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