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The Returns to Cognitive Abilities and Personality Traits in Germany
Heineck, Guido; Anger, Silke - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
set of measures of personality traits, namely locus of control, reciprocity and all basic items from the Five Factor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963791
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Social Relationships and Trust
Binzel, Christine; Fehr, Dietmar - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
While social relationships play an important role for individuals to cope with missing market institutions, they also limit individuals' range of trading partners. This paper aims at understanding the determinants of trust at various social distances when information asymmetries are present....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008498394
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Indenture as a Self-Enforced Contract Device: An Experimental Test
Kritikos, Alexander S.; Tan, Jonathan H. W. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
We experimentally test the efficacy of indenture as a self-enforced contract device. In an indenture game, the principal signals the intention of payment-on-delivery, by tearing a banknote and giving the agent half of it as "prepayment"; the agent receives the completing half after delivering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069044
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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity: Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
-Economic Panel and recently introduced questions about trust, positive reciprocity, and negative reciprocity to examine the extent … willingness to trust other people influences the probability of starting a business; ii) trust, positive reciprocity, and negative … reciprocity influence the exit probability of entrepreneurs; and iii) willingness to trust and to act reciprocally influences the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765038
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Economic Preferences and Attitudes of the Unemployed: Are Natives and Second Generation Migrants Alike?
Constant, Amelie F.; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
In this paper we study the economic effects of risk attitudes, time preferences, trust and reciprocity while we compare … the two groups mainly in terms of risk attitudes and positive reciprocity. Second generation migrants have a significantly … higher willingness to take risks and they are less likely to have a low amount of positive reciprocity when compared to …
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