'If I Look at the Masss' I Will Act: Social Responsibility and the Scope of Market Externalities

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We study how the scope of negative externalities from market activity affects the willingness of market actors to exhibit social responsibility. Using the laboratory experimental paradigm introduced by Bartling, Weber & Yao (2015), we compare the voluntary internalization of negative social impacts by market actors in cases where the negative externality is diffused among many subjects or is concentrated on a single subject. We (i) replicate earlier results demonstrating substantial degrees of market social responsibility and (ii) find that the willingness of market actors to act pro-socially is only slightly affected by whether the impacts are concentrated or diffused.

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