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perceived property rights) will affect individuals’ subsequent behavior. In our experiment, bargaining pairs earned endowments …
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the agent’s motivation to perform well. Before the agent chooses his performance, the principal in our experiment decides … opportunistically. We find that most principals in our experiment do not restrict the agent’s choice set but trust that the agent will …
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We study the intrapersonal relationship between trust and reciprocity in a laboratory experiment. Reciprocal subjects …
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This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...
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Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of … method integrating interactive experiments and representative surveys thereby overcoming crucial weaknesses of both … approaches. One of the major advantages of our approach is that it allows for the integration of experiments, which require …
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Trust is a crucial component of social capital. We use an experimental moonlighting game with a representative sample of the U.S. population, oversampling immigrants, to study trust, positive, and negative reciprocity between first-generation immigrants and native-born Americans as a measure of...
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. In this paper, we explore the questions of what exactly is measured by the diverse survey-derived scales and experiments … that it correlates with trusting behaviour in the experiment. Both survey and experimental measure correlate with related … factors such as risk aversion, being an entrepreneur or a shareholder. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the survey measure …
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