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Spatial Internet Marketplaces are attractive as a mechanism to enable spatial applications to be built drawing on … services as published by providers on the Internet and bought by customers on an as-required basis. Design ofa Spatial Internet … components required and the special issues in constructing an infrastructure for a Spatial Internet Marketplace. We initially …
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Electronic Commerce environments increasingly witness a conflict on the subject of e-privacy: While marketers want to maximize their customer knowledge and grasp the identity of their online users, consumers often want to stay anonymous and not reveal private information. The conflict suggests...
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Fairness is a strong concern as shown by the robust results of dictator giving and ultimatum experiments. Efficiency … provision games. In our experiment participants can increase efficiency by gift giving at the cost of reducing their own … for mutual gift giving. In both cases decisions can be conditioned on whether there is or there is not an efficiency gain …
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The evolution of trustworthiness as a major aspect of business ethics depends crucially on whether it can be signaled. If this is impossible, only opportunistic traders will survive. Whereas previous studies have analysed detection agencies (Güth and Kliemt, 1994 and 1998) or have substituted...
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The Trust Game describes a situation where mutually beneficial trade is endangered by opportunistic exploitation. In the Trust Game with Banks this dilemma can be avoided by banks guaranteeing that sellers will be paid. This outcome is, however, not the only possible solution. Bank interference...
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reputation formation, this game is played repeatedly. Learning can be analysed since participants play successively several … which allows testing the qualitative and quantitative aspects of reputation equilibria also at an individual level. …
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A model is developed to understand how norms can be influenced by "norm entrepreneurs", e.g. lawmakers, government agencies, unions etc. Two instruments of influencing the dynamics of normfollowing behavior are analyzed, namely transforming the (monetary) incentives and changing the meaning or...
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Direct reciprocity means to respond in kind to another person whereas indirect reciprocity is understood here as rewarding someone else. We perform corresponding experiments which use a similar underlying structure as the reciprocity experiment of Berg, Dickhaut, and McCabe (1995). Another...
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through Internet-based econometric computing and instruction. We refer to existing examples of net-based teaching and present …
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