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Negotiating cooperation under uncertainty : communication in noisy, indefinitely repeated interactions
Dvorak, Fabian; Fehrler, Sebastian - 2018
Case studies of cartels and recent theory suggest that repeated communication is key for stable cooperation in … understood. We study cooperation under different monitoring and communication structures in the laboratory. Under all monitoring … environments where signals about others' actions are noisy. However, empirically the exact role of communication is not well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011925584
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Business culture : the role of personal and impersonal business relationships on market efficiency
Muñoz-Herrera, Manuel; Reuben, Ernesto - 2019
In this paper, we study the effects of business culture on market efficiency. We exogenously vary the type of business culture between business-is-business cultures, which consist on impersonal relationships where financial matters are paramount, and business-is-family cultures, which comprise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022699
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The economic preferences of cooperative managers
Alves, Guillermo; Blanchard, Pablo; Burdín, Gabriel; … - 2019
A growing body of research has been investigating the role of management practices and managerial behaviour in conventional private firms and public sector organizations. However, little is known about managers' behavioural profile in noninvestor-owned firms. This paper aims to fill this gap by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005588
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Gender differences in the development of other-regarding preferences
John, Katrin; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2017
We use data from a gender-neutral dictator and public goods game setting to analyze differences in other-regarding preferences between boys and girls aged 10 to 17. The results indicate a higher mean of dictator giving, degree of egalitarian decisions and lower frequency of selfish decisions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732376
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Communication and trust in principal-team relationships : experimental evidence
Kleine, Marco; Kube, Sebastian - 2015
We study how upward communication - from workers to managers - about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467800
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Gossip and the efficiency of interactions
Fehr, Dietmar; Sutter, Matthias - 2016
Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452089
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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion
Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308480
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Charity as a signal of trustworthhiness
Fehrler, Sebastian - 2010
Being perceived as trustworthy comes with substantial economic benefits in many situations. Making other people think you are a trustworthy person may, therefore, be an important motive for charity and other forms of prosocial behavior, provided these activities work as signals of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009156097
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Charitable giving as a signal of trustworthiness : disentangling the signaling benefits of altruistic acts
Fehrler, Sebastian; Przepiorka, Wojtek - 2013
It has been shown that psychological predispositions to benefit others can motivate human cooperation and the evolution … cooperation can evolve as a costly signal of an unobservable quality that makes a person more attractive with regard to other … evolution of social preferences. -- altruism ; evolution of cooperation ; costly signaling ; social preferences ; trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009695978
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Social distance and trust : experimental evidence from a slum in Cairo
Binzel, Christine; Fehr, Dietmar - 2013
While strong social ties help individuals cope with missing institutions, trade is essentially limited to those who are part of the social network. We examine what makes the decision to trust a stranger different from the decision to trust a member of a given social network (a friend), by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009699454