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Social capital and crises with an application to Iceland
Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2015
Economic growth is propelled in part by the accumulation of different kinds of capital, including social capital in its several guises. This paper considers the interplay between financial crises and various aspects of social capital which, if it is allowed to depreciate, can undermine economic...
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The experience is (not) everything : sequential outcomes and social decision-making
Buckenmaier, Johannes; Dimant, Eugen - 2021
altruism, trust, trustworthiness, and cooperation. For non-social experiences, we find no effect on subsequent behavior in any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520860
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Facing yourself : a note on self-image
Falk, Armin - 2017
Numerous signaling models in economics assume image concerns. These take two forms, as relating either to social image or self-image. While empirical work has identified the behavioral importance of the former, little is known about the role of self-image concerns. We exogenously vary self-image...
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Donations, Risk Attitudes and Time Preferences : A Study on Altruism in Primary School Children
Angerer, Silvia - 2014
We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057045
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Social preferences, beliefs, and the dynamics of free riding in public good experiments
Fischbacher, Urs; Gaechter, Simon - 2008
We provide a test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and its decline. We elicit individuals' cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them as well as subjects' elicited beliefs to explain contributions to a public good played repeatedly. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003803507
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Guilt from Promise-Breaking and Trust in Markets for Expert Services : Theory and Experiment
Beck, Adrian - 2010
We examine the influence of guilt and trust on the performance of credence goods markets. An expert can make a promise … to a consumer first, whereupon the consumer can express her trust by paying an interaction price before the expert …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146471
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The formation of prosociality : causal evidence on the role of social environment
Kosse, Fabian; Deckers, Thomas; Pinger, Pia; … - 2018
This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of prosociality. In a first step, we show that socioeconomic status (SES) as well as the intensity of mother-child interaction and mothers' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to...
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Institutions, opportunism and prosocial behavior : some experimental evidence
Cabrales, Antonio; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Hernán … - 2020
against low reciprocity to the standard trust game. We compare two different mechanisms, the private (purchase) and the social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219890
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The causal effect of trust
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Huffman, David; Netzer, Nick - 2018
Trust affects almost all human relationships - in families, organizations, markets and politics. However, identifying … the conditions under which trust, defined as people's beliefs in the trustworthiness of others, has a causal effect on the … efficiency of human interactions has proven to be difficult. We show experimentally and theoretically that trust indeed has a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927871
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The Impact of Fine Size and Uncertainty on Punishment and Deterrence : Theory and Evidence from the Laboratory
Feess, Eberhard - 2015
We develop a theoretical model to identify and compare partial and equilibrium effects of uncertainty and the magnitude of fines on punishment and deterrence. Partial effects are effects on potential violators' and punishers' decisions when the other side's behavior is exogenously given....
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