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The importance of emotions for the effectiveness of social punishment
Hopfensitz, Astrid; Reuben, Ernesto - 2006
This paper experimentally explores how the enforcement of cooperative behavior in a social dilemma is facilitated through institutional as well as emotional mechanisms. Recent studies emphasize the importance of negatively valued emotions, such as anger, which motivate individuals to punish free...
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The price of a price : on the crowding out of social norms
Janssen, Maarten C. W.; Mendys-Kamphorst, Ewa - 2001
There is increasing empirical and experimental evidence thatproviding financial incentives to agents to performcertain socially desirable actions may permanently reduce other typesof motivations to undertake these actions.We study the impact of financial incentives on the desire for...
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Everybody's doing it : on the emergence and persistence of bad social norms
Smerdon, David; Offerman, Theo; Genîzî, Ûrî - 2016
Social norms permeate society across a wide range of issues and are important to understanding how societies function. In this paper we concentrate on 'bad' social norms - those that are inefficient or even damaging to a group. This paper explains how bad social norms evolve and persist; our...
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Denial and alarmism in collective action problems
Förster, Manuel; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2018
We analyze communication about the social returns to investment in a public good. We model two agents who have private information about these returns as well as their own taste for cooperation, or social preferences. Before deciding to contribute or not, each agent submits an unverifiable...
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Naϊve learning in social networks with fake news : bots as a singularity
Badri, Saeed; Heidergott, Bernd; Lindner, Ines - 2022
We study the impact of bots on social learning in a social network setting. Regular agents receive independent noisy signals about the true value of a variable and then communicate in a network. They na¨ıvely update beliefs by repeatedly taking weighted averages of neighbors' opinions. Bots...
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Exploitation and cooperation in networks
Galeotti, Andrea; Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel A. - 2004
A fundamental question in social sciences is how trust emerges. We provide an answer which relies on the formation of … social and economic relationships. We argue that behind trust lies the fact that individuals invest in connections taking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335196
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Trade, trust and transaction cost
Butter, Frank A. G. den; Mosch, Robert - 2003
suggest. Trust between trading partners lowers transaction costs and may therefore enhance trade. The empirical analysis of … this paper shows that more trust leads to more trade so that part of the mystery of missing trade can be attributed to the … lack of trust between trading partners, e.g. because of cultural differences and habits, or because of insufficient …
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The economics of co-ethnic employment : incentives, welfare effects and policy options
Butter, Frank A. G. den; Masurel, Enno; Mosch, Robert - 2004
for employees to work in co-ethnic firms. It argues that strong social networks and related high intra-group trust …
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Trust and economic growth
Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Schaik, Ton … - 2002
paper, Knack and Keefer (1997) assess the effect of trust on growth. This paper analyses the robustness of their results … the relationship between trust and growth in terms of both the size and the significance of the estimated effect, is … highly dependent on the set of conditioning variables. An answer to the question whether there is an economic payoff of trust …
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Decision and strategies in a sequential search experiment
Sonnemans, Joep - 1997
The strategy method is becoming an important tool in experimentalmethodology. This study examines how well this method works in anindividual decision experiment. Subjects are faced with a sequentialsearch problem. After extensive practice solving the problem andformulating strategies, they play...
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