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Simple and Complex Gift Exchange in the Laboratory

van der Heijden, Eline; nelissen, jan; Potters, Jan; … - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1999

We examine an experimental gift exchange game in which the players can improve upon the unique no-gifts equilibrium through cooperative gift giving. The main feature of the study is that there are two different types of gift exchange, which we call simple and complex exchange, respectively....

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A Theory of Sequential Reciprocity

Dufwenberg, M.; Kirchsteiger, G. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1998

Many experimental studies indicate that people are motivated by reciprocity. Rabin (1993) develops techniques for … reciprocity for extensive games in which the sequential structure of a strategic situation is made explicit. We propose a new … solution concept— sequential reciprocity equilibrium—which is applicable to extensive games, and we prove a general equilibrium …

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Calvin's Restrictions on Interest : Guidelines for the Credit Crisis

Graafland, Johan - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2009

Calvin’s view on the legitimacy of interest has had a great impact on the economic development of Western society. Although Calvin took a fundamentally positive attitude to interest, he also proposed several restrictions on the charging of interest. In this article, we investigate the...

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Your Morals are Your Moods

Kirchsteiger, G.; Rigotti, L.; Rustichini, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2000

bad mood implies more reciprocity while a good mood implies more generosity.Since high transfers are relatively more …

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The Economics of the Gift

van de Ven, J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2000

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An Experimental Study in the Crowding-Out Effect of Public Transfers in a Model with Multiple Families

Potters, Jan; Güth, W.; Offerman, T.J.S.; Strobel, M.; … - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2000

We study an overlapping-generations experiment with multiple families in which redistributional transfers can take the form of support to the elderly or grants to children.Supporting the old is a purely inter-generational (intra-family) transfer, whereas grants to children also involve an...

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On the Viability of Gift Exchange in a Market Environment

van de Klundert, Theo; van de Ven, J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1999

indicates that this is indeed likely to be the case. But reciprocity or gift-exchange induces social relations. The utility …

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Social Capital and Regional Economic Growth

Schaik, Ton van; Beugelsdijk, S. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

We study a cross-section of 54 European regions in the period 1950-1998.The central question is whether social capital, in the form of generalized trust and associational activity, is related to regional differences in economic growth. Based on extensive robustness tests, we present evidence...

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Social Capital, Institutions and Trust

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

This paper analyzes the relations between social capital, institutions and trust.These concepts are full of ambiguity and confusion.This paper attempts to dissolve some of the confusion, by distinguishing trust and control, and analyzing institutional and relational conditions of trust.It...

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In Government We Trust : The Role of Fiscal Decentralization

Ligthart, J.E.; van Oudheusden, P. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011

We measure the contribution of fiscal decentralization to trust in government. Using repeated cross-country survey data of individuals on several measures of trust in govern- ment over the 1994-2007 period, we estimate an ordered response model of the government trust and fiscal decentralization...

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