Similar Search Results

Trust and in-group favoritism in a culture of crime

Meier, Stephan; Pierce, Lamar; Vaccaro, Antonino - 2014

demonstrate that the historical informal institution of organized crime can undermine current institutions, even in religiously … punishment norms failing to resolve these deficits. Our study suggests that a culture of organized crime can affect adolescent … norms and attitudes that might support a vicious cycle of in-group favoritism and crime that in turn hinders economic …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010355860

Ostracism and theft in heterogeneous groups

Baier, Alexandra; Balafoutas, Loukas; Jaber-Lopez, Tarek - 2021 - This version: 22.06.2021

Ostracism, or exclusion by peers, has been practiced since ancient times as a severe form of punishment against transgressors of laws or social norms. The purpose of this paper is to offer a comprehensive analysis on how ostracism affects behavior and the functioning of a social group. We...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012591202

Trust games measure trust

Houser, Daniel; Schunk, Daniel; Winter, Joachim - 2006

The relationship between trust and risk is a topic of enduring interest. Although there are substantial differences between the ideas the terms express, many researchers from different disciplines have pointed out that these two concepts become very closely related in personal exchange contexts....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003470471

It is hard to beat the monkeys : on the value of asymmetric fundamental information in asset markets

Kirchler, Michael - 2008 - This version: November 12, 2008

In this paper we present results from experimental asset markets and simulations with traders who receive asymmetric information about the fundamental value of an asset. In the experimental markets with repetition insiders outperform the market and uninformed computerized random traders...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733224

Corruption, norm violation and decay in social capital

Banerjee, Ritwik - 2016

The paper studies the link between corruption and social capital (measured as trust), using data from a lab experiment. Subjects play either a harassment bribery game or a strategically identical but differently framed ultimatum game, followed by a trust game. In a second experiment, we elicit...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455846

On the interpretation of world values survey trust question : global expectations vs. local beliefs

Banerjee, Ritwik - 2016

How should we interpret the World Values Survey (WVS) trust question? We conduct an experiment in India, a low trust country, to correlate the WVS trust question with trust decisions in an incentivized Trust Game. Evidence supports findings from one strand of the fractured literature - the WVS...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457340

Trust and communication in a property rights dilemma

Ahn, T. K.; Balafoutas, Loukas; Batsaikhan, Mongoljin; … - 2016

We study a laboratory social dilemma game in which incentives to steal from others lead to the socially inefficient diversion of resources from production unless the members of a given mini-society can abide by norms of non-theft or engage in low cost collective protection of their members'...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515717

Why did he do that? : using counterfactuals to study the effect of intentions in extensive form games

Engler, Yola; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Page, Lionel - 2016

We investigate the role of intentions in two-player two-stage games. For this purpose we systematically vary the set of opportunity sets the first mover can chose from and study how the second mover reacts not only to opportunities of gains but also of losses created by the choice of the first...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480554

Signal qualities, order of decisions, and informational cascades : experimental evidences

Sasaki, Shunichiro (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This paper reports the results of informational cascades experiments where two different decision-making systems, anti-seniority and seniority are investigated. By implementing heterogeneous signal qualities associated with the fixed order of decisions I compare the property of each system and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002428105

Trust and Trustworthiness in Times of Crisis

Ullrich, Anja - 2013

This paper addresses the impact of a crisis situation on trust and trustworthiness in the laboratory. The experiment is based on an adapted version of the trust game by Berg et al. (1995) and tries to shed light on the question if crisis situations affect trust relationships. Analyzing...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086522

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last