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Building and Rebuilding Trust with Promises and Apologies
Schniter, Eric; Sheremeta, Roman; Sznycer, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Using trust games, we study how promises and messages are used to build new trust where it did not previously exist and to rebuild damaged trust. In these games, trustees made non-binding promises of investment-contingent returns, then investors decided whether to invest, and finally trustees...
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Economics as victim between lawyers and mathematics: An explanation for the tax credit, Bulgarian potential fraud, European unemployment and the economic crisis
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
issue. (7) A root cause lies in the handling of economic science in Holland. Though other countries can already benefit from …
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An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Deception and Telling Lies
Mishra, SK - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
others. Thus viewed, lies are the cardinal virtues for survival and, by implication, the carriers of evolution. In the human … to take up a definite moral attitude. Certain types of lies might be morally acceptable and socially beneficial since … they may block the otherwise (most damaging) global optimum solution of a negative sum game, while other types of lies are …
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Misdeeds in the US higher education: Illegality versus corruption
Osipian, Ararat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
federal laws and provisions to different forms of misconduct, including consumer fraud, deception, bribery, embezzlement, etc …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836183
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Do Liars Believe? Beliefs and Other-Regarding Preferences in Sender-Receiver Games
Sheremeta, Roman; Shields, Timothy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We examine subjects’ behavior in sender-receiver games where there are gains from trade and alignment of interests in one of the two states. We elicit subjects’ beliefs, risk and other-regarding preferences. Our design also allows us to examine the behavior of subjects in both roles, to...
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Deceptive advertising with rational buyers
Ursino, Giovanni; Piccolo, Salvatore; Tedeschi, Piero - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We study a Bertrand game where two sellers supplying products of different and unverifiable qualities can outwit potential clients through their (costly) deceptive advertising. We characterize a class of pooling equilibria where sellers post the same price regardless of their quality and low...
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Coevolution of Deception and Preferences: Darwin and Nash Meet Machiavelli
Heller, Yuval; Mohlin, Erik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
equilibrium. All individuals have the same deception ability in such a stable state. In contrast, there are non-pure outcomes in … which non-Nash outcomes are played, and different deception abilities co-exist. We extend our model to study preferences …
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Work cycles of independent ensembles
Friedrich, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
at b-c=0 (b/c=1). The use of brute force and deception shifts this border into an area where the ensemble was inactive …-accumulation in source and by over-consumption in sink. Work cycles may include brute force and deception to further increase the …
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Experimental Economics: Some Methodological Notes
Fiore, Annamaria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The aim of this work is presenting in a self-contained paper some methodological aspects as they are received in the current experimental literature. The purpose has been to make a critical review of some very influential papers dealing with methodological issues. In other words, the idea is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005626840
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Fair farming: Preferences for fair labor certification using four elicitation methods
Drichoutis, Andreas C.; Vassilopoulos, Achilleas; Lusk, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
High profile cases of exploitative labor practices have increased concerns over agricultural working conditions. However, it is unclear whether and to what extent the public is willing to trade-off fair working conditions for higher prices and food imports. We implement a large-scale survey to...
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