Promising reciprocity: When proposing a favor for a request increases compliance even if the favor is not accepted

Why finance ministers favor carbon taxes, even if they do not take climate change into account -

Fiscal considerations may shift governmental priorities away from environmental concerns: Finance ministers face strong demand for public expenditures such as infrastructure investments but they are constrained by international tax competition. We develop a multi-region model of tax competition and resource extraction to assess the fiscal incentive of imposing a tax on carbon rather than on cap...

¿Por Favor? Favor Reciprocation When Agents Have Private Discounting

When agents can significantly increase other agents’ utility at a moderate cost, the socially optimal outcome is for all agents to repeatedly provide favors to each other whenever they can. However, when agents cannot support or enforce a market system, this forms a situation similar to the repeated prisoner’s dilemma because each agent can unilaterally improve its own utility by refusing to he...

The Effects of Favor and Apology on Compliance

Currying favor for the heart.

Curcumin, a commonly available spice and alternative medicine, has been tested in the laboratory and the clinic for activity against a wide range of diseases. It is thought to possess antiinflammatory and antioxidant activities and may also function to inhibit histone acetyl transferases, which activate gene expression via chromatin remodeling. Two reports in this issue of the JCI, by Morimoto ...

When Do Consumers Favor Price Increases: With Applications to Congestion and to Regulation

is one of ten regional units mandated by Congress and established in Fall 1988 to support research, education, and training in surface transportation on. The UC Center serves federal Region IX and is supported by matching grants from the U.S. Department of Transportation, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), and the University. Based on the Berkeley Campus, UCTC draws upon ex...