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Reciprocal Attention and Norm of Reciprocity in Blogging Networks
Gaudeul, Alexia; Peroni, Chiara - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Bloggers devote significant time not only producing content for others to read, watch or listen to, but also paying attention to and engaging in interactions with other bloggers. We hope to throw light not only on the factors that gain bloggers significant readership and lively interactions with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472641
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What Ethics Can Learn From Experimental Economics - If Anything
Güth, Werner; Kliemt, Hartmut - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Relying on the specific example of ultimatum bargaining experiments this paper explores the possible role of empirical knowledge of behavioural "norm(ative) facts" within the search for an inter-personal (W)RE - (Wide) Reflective Equilibrium on normative issues. Assuming that pro-social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090467
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The emergence of norms from conflicts over just distributions
Miller, Luis; Rauhut, Heiko; Winter, Fabian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Why is it that well-intentioned actions can create persistent conflicts? While norms are widely regarded as a source for cooperation, this article proposes a novel theory in which the emergence of norms can be understood as a bargaining process in which normative conflicts explain the finally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008913271
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Fairness norms can explain the emergence of specific cooperation norms in the Battle of the Prisoners Dilemma
Winter, Fabian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Cooperation norms often emerge in situations, where the long term collective benefits help to overcome short run individual interests, for instance in repeated Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) situations. Often, however, there are different paths to cooperation, benefiting different kinds of actors to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010641479
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A sociological perspective on measuring social norms by means of strategy method experiments
Rauhut, Heiko; Winter, Fabian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The measurement of social norms plays a pivotal role in many social sciences. While economists predominantly conduct experiments, sociologists rather employ (factorial) surveys. Both methods, however, suffer from distinct weaknesses. Experiments, on the one hand, often fall short in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004964135
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How norms can generate conflict
Winter, Fabian; Rauhut, Heiko; Helbing, Dirk - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Norms play an important role in establishing social order. The current literature focuses on the emergence, maintenance and impact of norms with regard to coordination and cooperation. However, the issue of norm-related conflict deserves more attention. We develop a general theory of "normative...
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Contracts and Promises - An Approach to Pre-play Agreements
Miettinen, Topi - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In line with the widely applied principle of just deserts, we assume that the severity of the penalty on a contract offender increases in the harm on the other. When this principle holds, the influence of the efficiency of the agreement on the incentives to abide by it crucially depends on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090601
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On the Evolution of Preferences
Gamba, Astrid - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
A common feature of the literature on the evolution of preferences is that evolution favors nonmaterialistic preferences only if preference types are observable at least to some degree. We argue that this result is due to the assumption that in each state of the evolutionary dynamics some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009143374
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Trust, Confidence and Economic Growth An Evaluation of the Beugelsdijk Hypothesis
Volland, Benjamin - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper analyses the hypothesis that the robust relationship between trust - as measured by the World Values Survey … results reveal that the correlation between trust and economic growth is robust in terms of statistical significance and sign … underlining the existing empirical evidence that trust matters in explaining differences in economic performance, our results also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008690481
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Institutions, Culture, and Open Source
Freytag, Andreas; Engelhardt, Sebastian von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
social capital interpreted as interpersonal trust, an optimistic view of scientific progress, a low degree of regulation as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008489509