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To trust or to control : informal value transfer systems and computational analysis in institutional economics
Gräbner-Radkowitsch, Claudius; Elsner, Wolfram; … - 2017
theory and to clarify the functioning of institutions, (2) to test the logical consistency of alternative hypotheses about … institutions, and (3) to relate institutionalist theory with other paradigms and to practice an interested pluralism. …
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Can integrity replace institutions? : theory and evidence
Aharonovitz, Gilad D.; Skuza, Nathan; Fahs, Faysal - 2009
Institutions are important for proper economic performance, but are replaceable by trust or other social norms. We show that when proper institutions and trust are missing, integrity of the individuals can replace them. We construct a model of a transactions-based economy with contracts...
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Essays on corporate financing
Ebert, Susanne - 2011
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Curse of mediocrity : on the value of asymmetric fundamental information in asset markets
Kirchler, Michael - 2008
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Communally governed transactions among collaborative and decentralized trading agents
Tarigan, Avinanta - 2007
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The human version of Moore-Shannon's theorem : the design of reliable economic systems
Christensen, Michael (contributor);  … - 2007
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Essays on validation and estimation of agent-based models and on overconfidence measures
Stasiukynaite, Rasa - 2014
The unifying theme of this thesis is the study built around individual heterogeneity. When analyzing the behaviour of economic agents and institutions, the role of individual heterogeneity, various behavioural characteristics receive more attention in scientific research. This thesis can be...
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Dynamics of Effort Allocation and Evolution of Trust : An Agent-Based Model
Hassani-Mahmooei, Behrooz - 2012
Trust is a dynamic and complex phenomenon and understanding the factors which affect its formation, evolution and disappearance is a critical research issue. It has been shown that trust plays a key role in how human and social capital develop, how economies grow and how societies progress. In...
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The Lumberworks Agent : When Trust and Integrity Matter to the Agent
Ogunyemi, Kemi - 2011
on the other, or division of labour into several levels of management. Agency theory postulates that once incentives are … applying agency theory (Donaldson and Davis, 1991). A single case study of Lumberworks Ltd. is used to explore, validate and … extend these ideas, following the suggestion by Tosi and Gomez Mejia (1989) that there may be need to research agency theory …
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The evolution of economies, technologies, and other institutions : exploring W. Brian Arthur's insights
Schrepel, Thibault - In: Journal of institutional economics 20 (2024), pp. 1-15
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