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  • Bac, Mehmet (2014): Opinion expressions under social sanctions. In: International Review of Law and Economics 38, S. 58-71. DOI: 10.1016/j.irle.2014.03.002

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irle.2014.03.002 

    Abstract: I study a social debate where individuals are subject to informal sanctions if their expressions or silence signal the opinions of a minority group. Individual preferences are peaked at the expression of true opinions and there is a loss of utility from keeping silent. The model generates predictions about how equilibrium expressions change as a function of model primitives such as sanction intensity, disutility of silence and size of the minority group. A dynamic extension sheds light on the limit distribution of opinions if unvoiced …

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