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Trade, trust and transaction cost
Butter, Frank A. G. den; Mosch, Robert - 2003
Transaction costs are a major reason why international trade flows are much smaller than traditional trade theory would 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...
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That's just : not fair ; gender differences in notions of justice
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2015
of selfishness and a notion of justice. The theory was tested using dictator, social planner, and veil of ignorance … experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences for giving and notions of justice in experiments using the same … differences in the notion of justice between men and women; women tend to be far more egalitarian. Using our preference …
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Anticipatory anxiety and wishful thinking
Engelmann, Jan; Lebreton, Maël; Schwardmann, Peter; … - 2019
It is widely hypothesized that anxiety and worry about an uncertain future lead to the adoption of comforting beliefs or "wishful thinking". However, there is little direct causal evidence for this effect. In our experiment, participants perform a visual pattern recog- nition task where some...
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Measuring responsiveness to feedback as a personal trait
Buser, Thomas; Gerhards, Leonie; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2016
the variation in confidence and competition entry decisions. Conservatism is correlated across tasks and predicts …. Asymmetry is less stable across tasks, but predicts competition entry by increasing self-confidence. …
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Dividing justly in bargaining problems with claims : normative judgments and actual negotiations
Gächter, Simon; Riedl, Arno - 2004
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Fairness and reciprocity in the Hawk-Dove game
Neugebauer, Tibor; Poulsen, Anders; Schram, Arthur - 2002
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Negative reciprocity and the interaction of emotions and fairness norms
Reuben, Ernesto; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2005
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Fair shares and selective attention
Amasino, Dianna; Pace, Davide Domenico; Weele, Joël J. … - 2021 - Revision November 2021
Attitudes towards fairness and redistribution differ along socio-economic lines, resulting in political conflict. To understand the formation of such views and find levers to affect them, we study the role of attention. In a large online experiment, we investigate how subjects allocate their...
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Valuation monotonicity, fairness and stability in assignment problems
Brink, René van den; Núñez, Marina; Robles, Francisco - 2018
In this paper, we investigate the possibility of having stable rules for two-sided markets with transferable utility, that satisfy some valuation monotonicity and fairness axioms. Valuation fairness requires that changing the valuation of a buyer for the object of a seller leads to equal changes...
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Measuring tastes for equity and aggregate wealth behind the veil of ignorance
Heufer, Jan; Shachat, Jason M.; Xu, Yan - 2018
We propose an instrument to measure individuals' social preferences regarding equity and efficiency behind a veil of ignorance. We pair portfolio and wealth distribution choice problems which have a common budget set. For a given bundle, the distribution over an individual's wealth is the same...
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