Nuremberg Research Seminar in Economics on 15 January 2025, LG 4.154 (!!)
You are invited to join the weekly Nuremberg Research Seminar in Economics on 15 January 2025, from 13.15 to 14.45 pm. The seminar will be held in room LG 4.154 (!!). Daniele Nosenzo (Aarhus University) will be talking about “Law and Norms in Multicultural Societies”. This presentation is co-organized by the Ludwig Erhard ifo Center on Social Market Economy in Fürth.
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Laws affect behavior not only through deterrence but also through their “expressive power”, i.e., their ability to shape the social norms of a society. In this paper, we study how laws shape norms in societies comprising individuals from different cultural groups, such as natives and migrants, who live under the same set of rules but may hold different normative attitudes towards the same type of behavior. We develop a theoretical model showing that the expressive power of law emerges naturally within a framework where individuals care about the social reputation they derive from behavior – but with diametrically opposite effects across different cultural groups. Using incentivized vignette experiments, we then provide empirical evidence of how the law shapes norm in such settings.