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The 'grammar of trust' is one of the most explored loci in behavioural and experimental economics. This experimental study aims at contributing to the understanding of new dimensions of trust by exploring how risky trust may foster a trustee's behavioural change. It investigates trustee's...
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The "grammar of trust" is one the most explored loci in game theory and behavioural economics. However, still much needs to be understood about the nature of trust in non-enforceable, personalised interactions, in markets and within organizations. This experimental study aims at contributing to...
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We examine the relationship between confidence in own absolute performance and risk attitudes using two confidence … elicitation procedures: self-reported (non-incentivised) confidence and an incentivised procedure that elicits the certainty … risk attitudes. Finally, we find that self-reported confidence correlates significantly with features of individual risk …
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We examine the characteristics of effective leaders in a simple leader-follower voluntary contributions game. We focus on two factors: the individual's cooperativeness and the individual's beliefs about the cooperativeness of others. We find that groups perform best when led by those who are...
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We conduct a field trust game under a natural experiment context to test the impacts of urbanisation on trust. We …-led urbanisation. We also run a regression on the trust exhibited towards participants in the experiment and found the partial effect …
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a penalty and excuse their selfish behavior. We address the question of punishment legitimacy in our experiment by …
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We study the interaction between competition and social proximity on altruism, trust, and reciprocity. We decompose the behavioral channels by utilizing variants of both the Trust Game and the Dictator Game in a design that systematically controls the transmission of relevant information. Our...
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prosocial behavior. We conduct a large-scale online experiment where we add the possibility of purchasing insurance to safeguard …
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Betrayal aversion has been operationalized as the evidence that subjects demand a higher risk premium to take social risks compared to natural risks. This evidence has been first shown by Bohnet and Zeckhauser (2004) using an adaptation of the Becker-DeGroot-Marshak mechanism (BDM, Becker et al....
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