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Whose Norms to Follow? A Field Experiment on Both Sides of a Border

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  • Sulser, Pascal
  • Fischbacher, Urs
  • Wolff, Irenaeus

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  • Sulser, Pascal & Fischbacher, Urs & Wolff, Irenaeus, 2025. "Whose Norms to Follow? A Field Experiment on Both Sides of a Border," VfS Annual Conference 2025 (Cologne): Revival of Industrial Policy 325425, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
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    JEL classification:

    • C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
    • D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities
    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
    • H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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