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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2007
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
Ruhr Economic Papers No. 3
Verlag: 
Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI), Essen
Zusammenfassung: 
We study the social interaction of non-smokers and smokers as a sequential game, incorporating insights from social psychology and experimental economics into an economic model. Social norms affect human behavior such that non-smokers do not ask smokers to stop smoking and stay with them, even though disutility from smoking exceeds utility from social interaction. Overall, smoking is unduly often accepted when accommodating smoking is the social norm. The introduction of smoking and non-smoking areas does not overcome this specific inefficiency.We conclude that smoking bans may represent a required (second-best) policy.
Schlagwörter: 
Smoking policy
social norms
guilt aversion
deviant behavior
social interaction
JEL: 
I18
D01
D11
ISBN: 
978-3-936454-93-2
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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