利他资本

Altruistic Capital

American Economic Review · 2017
被引 57
人大 A+FT50ABS 4*

中文导读

提出利他资本概念,指通过利他行为积累、促进未来利他行为的资本,并用银行业案例说明其如何受个体选择和外部事件(如金融危机)影响。

Abstract

To understand altruistic behavior, we must understand the process through which altruism develops and is shaped by the agents' own choices and exogenous factors. We introduce the concept of altruistic capital, which grows with effort devoted to altruistic acts and facilitates future altruism. We illustrate its potential use in the context of banking and conclude by showing that returns to altruistic effort shape the agent's choices and are shaped by external events such as the financial crisis.

利他资本利他行为银行金融危机