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investigate whether the level of trust among people measured in different ways can predict the amount of public good produced. I … find that (i) trust, as measured by survey questions, has poor predictive power, while (ii) the results from our version of … Trust Game are much better predictors of local public-good production. …
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In this article, we focus on two types of "aversion" which we deem essential aspects of the notion of trust: betrayal … aversion (social) and ambiguity aversion (a special case of aversion to uncertainty). Based on trust-games studies in … trusting behavior could be our general aversion to ambiguous signals. We approach social trust in the terms of a phenomenon …
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In this paper, we expose the results of a voting experiment realised in 2007, during the French Presidential election. This experiment aimed at confronting the Single Transferable vote (SVT) procedure to two criteria : simplicity and the selection of a Condorcet-winner. Building on our electoral...
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Although economics has long been considered as a non-experimental science, the development of experimental economics and behavioral economics is amazingly rapid and affects most fields of research. This paper first attempts at defining the main contributions of experiments to economics. It also...
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Despite some progress, there is still evidence of discrimination on the grounds of gender and ethnic or racial origins in OECD labour markets. Field experiments show pervasive ethnic discrimination in many countries. We show indirect cross-country/time-series evidence that, using product market...
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aftermath of geo-localized social protests in Africa, we find that trust in monitoring institutions and beliefs in social … coordination strongly evolve after riots, together with trust in leaders. As no signs of social unrest can be recorded before, the …
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We show the existence of a twin peaks relation between trust and the size of the welfare state that stems from two …
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analyse the role and the development of trust and then, the relation between the degree of sophistication of Information and …
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, business uncertainty, trust, and social respect are positively related to a supplier's relational adaptation. Research … interfirm governance mechanism to attain relational adaptation. Second, the development of trust and social respect in customer …
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their ability to combine independence and control with trust, cooperation and support in their relationship with CEOs. The …
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