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Trust, communication and contracts: Experimental evidence
Ben-Ner, Avner; Putterman, Louis - 2006
We introduce opportunities for pre-play communication and to enter binding or non-binding contracts in trust games, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318895
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Lavish returns on cheap talk: Non-binding communication in a trust experiment
Ben-Ner, Avner; Putterman, Louis; Ren, Ting - 2007
We let subjects interact with anonymous partners in trust (investment) games with and without one of two kinds of pre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318961
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On the Malleability of Fairness Ideals: Order Effects in Partial and Impartial Allocation Tasks
Dengler-Roscher, Kathrin; Montinari, Natalia; … - 2015
How malleable are people's fairness ideals? Although fairness is an oft-invoked concept in allocation situations, it is still unclear whether and to what extent people's allocations reflect their fairness ideals. We investigate in a laboratory experiment whether people's fairness ideals vary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208726
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Trust and cooperation at a confluence of worlds: An experiment in Xinjiang, China
Zhang, Zhe; Putterman, Louis G.; Zhang, Xu - 2018
We study trust and willingness to cooperate among and between Uyghur and Han college students in Xinjiang, China, where … find that members of each ethnicity show favoritism towards those of their own ethnicity in both trust and cooperation and … differently in their willingness to cooperate relative to trust, although both trust and trustworthiness positively correlate with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058634
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Fairness and Promises for Sale
Holm, Håkan J.; Daielson, Anders - 2005
the individual and thereby assessing the limits of these fairness concerns. This study reports on Trust game experiments … by changing to an unfair allocation. This modification appeared to make the trust aspect more salient which can explain a … relatively strong consistency between trust behavior and answers to attitudinal trust questions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208461
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Do Financial Variables Provide Information About the Swiss Business Cycle?
Alessandrini, Fabio - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich>; … - 2003
This paper extends the literature on the information content of financial variables with respect to future economic growth. It shows that variables originating from both the equity market and the bond market in Switzerland are useful indicators for forecasting the Swiss business cycle. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859003
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The big carrot: High-stakes incentives revisited
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - 2009
Using an international dataset of about 35,000 subjects, this paper provides an empirical example of high-stakes incentives in relation to religious practice. First, we show that incentives (based on absolute belief) play a salient role in religious performance. Second, we find that, when both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335978
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The influences of social context on the measurement of distributional preferences
Greiff, Matthias; Ackermann, Kurt A.; Murphy, Ryan O. - 2016
Different social contexts have been used when measuring distributional preferences. This could be problematic as contextual variance may inadvertently muddle the measurement process. We use a within-subjects design and measure distributional preferences in resource allocation tasks with role...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663183
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Identity, trust and altruism: An experiment on preferences and microfinance lending
Chen, Josie I.; Foster, Andrew D.; Putterman, Louis G. - 2017
We construct a dedicated web interface and use it to conduct a laboratory experiment to study willingness to lend and preference over borrowers in micro-finance lending. We distinguish between perceptions of transaction-related factors, such as neediness and trustworthiness, and identity-related...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058630
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Intertemporal prosocial choice: The inconsistency puzzle
Islam, Marco - 2022
How does delay in the realization of a prosocial decision affect prosocial choice? This paper first provides a meta-analysis that collects existing evidence on the temporal consistency of prosocial behavior. I show that the evidence on the delay effect on prosocial choice is contradicting but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014318975