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We provide the first quantitative synthesis of the literature on how financial markets react to the disclosure of financial crimes committed by listed firms. While consensus expects negative stock price returns, the exact size of the effect is far from clear. We survey 111 studies published over...
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classic simple bargaining games (ultimatum, dictator, and trust games). Specifically, we experimentally manipulate sleep … time‐of‐day of the decisions. We find a robust result of increased greed, reduced trust, and reduced trustworthiness …
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more effective when contracts are unverifiable because they help market participants overcome problems of trust. On the …
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-essential visitation, we find that: stay-at-home orders reduce mobility by about 8-10 percentage points; high-trust counties decrease their … mobility significantly more than low-trust counties post-lockdown; and counties with relatively more self-declared democrats … especially large for trust in the press, and relatively smaller for trust in science, medicine or government. …
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Production processes are often organised in teams, yet there is limited evidence on whether and how social connections and financial incentives affect productivity in tasks that require coordination among workers. We simulate assembly line production in a lab-in-the-field experiment in which...
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Trust and trustworthiness are important components of social capital and much attention has been devoted to their … correct evaluation. In this paper, we argue that individuals' trust and trustworthiness are strongly dependent on the level of … trust and trustworthiness of the social group in which subjects operate. Attitudinal indicators which are often used to …
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study trust and reciprocity in the same context. For all-male groups, we find the same lack of superiority of interaction … treatments over no interaction. For all-female groups, some very simple social interactions have a positive impact on trust. …
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This article studies whether people want to control which information on their own past pro-social behavior is revealed to other people. Participants in an experiment are assigned a color which depends on their own past pro-sociality. They can then spend money to increase or decrease the...
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In this paper we explore the relationship between ethnic fractionalization and social capital. First, we test for time differences in the impact of ethnic fractionalization on social capital using U.S. data from 1990, 1997 and 2005. Subsequently we examine the data for evidence of the conflict,...
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attitudes (trust in domestic and international institutions, populism and immigration); and iii) social aspects … is a sensible increase in trust in domestic institutions. We also document that the pandemic had heterogeneous and …
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