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Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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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Measuring Trust: Experiments and Surveys in Contrast and Combination

Naef, Michael; Schupp, Jürgen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

claiming to measure trust, and how these different measures are related. Using nationally representative data, we test a … that it correlates with trusting behaviour in the experiment. Both survey and experimental measure correlate with related …'s test-retest reliability (six weeks) is high. The experimental measure of trust is, on the other hand, not significantly …

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Charity as a Signal of Trustworthiness

Fehrler, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Being perceived as trustworthy comes with substantial economic benefits in many situations. Making other people think you are a trustworthy person may, therefore, be an important motive for charity and other forms of prosocial behavior, provided these activities work as signals of...

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Charitable Giving as a Signal of Trustworthiness: Disentangling the Signaling Benefits of Altruistic Acts

Fehrler, Sebastian; Przepiorka, Wojtek - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

experiment, we test whether altruistic behavior in the form of charitable giving is indeed correlated with trustworthiness and …

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Identity Changes and the Efficiency of Reputation Systems

Wibral, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Reputation systems aim to induce honest behavior in online trade by providing information about past conduct of users. Online reputation, however, is not directly connected to a person, but only to the virtual identity of that person. Users can therefore shed a negative reputation by creating a...

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Confucianism and Preferences: Evidence from Lab Experiments in Taiwan and China

Liu, Elaine M.; Meng, Juanjuan; Wang, Joseph Tao-yi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that Chinese subjects in our experiments became less accepting of Confucian values, such that they became significantly more risk loving, less loss averse, and more impatient after being...

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Do the Reciprocal Trust Less?

Dohmen, Thomas; Altmann, Steffen; Wibral, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We study the intrapersonal relationship between trust and reciprocity in a laboratory experiment. Reciprocal subjects …

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Screening, Competition, and Job Design: Economic Origins of Good Jobs

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

In recent decades, many firms offered more discretion to their employees, often increasing the productivity of effort but also leaving more opportunities for shirking. These "high-performance work systems" are difficult to understand in terms of standard moral hazard models. We show...

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Guilt from Promise-Breaking and Trust in Markets for Expert Services: Theory and Experiment

Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Qiu, Jianying; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

broken, and guilt is exacerbated by higher interaction prices. An experiment qualitatively confirms our predictions: (1) most …

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Eliciting Motives for Trust and Reciprocity by Attitudinal and Behavioural Measures

Farina, Francesco; O'Higgins, Niall; Sbriglia, Patrizia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Value Surveys may reveal well-behaved societies by the statistical treatment of the agents’ declarations of compliance with social values. Similarly, the results of experiments conducted on games with conflict of interest trace back to two important primitives of social capital – trust and...

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