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Confidence in knowledge or confidence in the ability to learn : an experiment on the causal effects of beliefs on motivation

Fischer, Mira; Sliwka, Dirk - 2018

confidence in the ability to learn raises incentives, while confidence in the level of human capital lowers incentives for …

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Identity changes and the efficiency of reputation systems

Wibral, Matthias - 2014

Reputation systems aim to induce honest behavior in online trade by providing information about past conduct of users …. Online reputation, however, is not directly connected to a person, but only to the virtual identity of that person. Users can … therefore shed a negative reputation by creating a new account. We study the effects of such identity changes on the efficiency …

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Culture of trust and division of labor

Meier, Stephan; Stephenson, Matthew - 2015

Firms exhibit heterogeneity in size, productivity, and internal structure, and this is true even within the same industry. It has been thought since the time of Adam Smith that a firm's internal structure affects its productivity through the channel of gains from specialization. Our paper...

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Institutions, opportunism and prosocial behavior : some experimental evidence

Cabrales, Antonio; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Hernán … - 2020

Formal or informal institutions have long been adopted by societies to protect against opportunistic behavior. However, we know very little about how these institutions are chosen and their impact on behavior. We experimentally investigate the demand for different levels of institutions that...

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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...

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Does bilateral trust affect international movement of goods and labor? : conference paper

Spring, Eva; Grossmann, Volker - 2013

Trust in the citizens of a potential partner country may affect the decision to trade with or to migrate to a foreign country. This paper employs panel data to examine the causal impact of such bilateral trust on international trade and migration patterns. We apply instrumental variables (IV)...

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Distrust : the hidden cost of control

Falk, Armin (contributor); Kosfeld, Michael (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Does monitoring decrease work effort? : The complementarity between agency and crowding-out theories

Dickinson, David L. (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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On the economics and biology of trust

Fehr, Ernst (contributor) - 2008

In recent years, many social scientists have claimed that trust plays an important role in economic and social transactions. Despite its proposed importance, the measurement and the definition of trust seem to be not fully settled, and the identification of the exact role of trust in economic...

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Guilt from promise-breaking and trust in markets for expert services : theory and experiment

Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Qiu, Jianying; … - 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’s provision and charging decisions. We argue that the...

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