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We examine whether a company's corporate reputation gained from their CSR activities and a company leader's reputation … experimental evidence that good corporate reputation causally buffers individuals' negative fairness judgment following the firm …'s decision to profiteer from an increase in the demand. Bad corporate reputation does not make the decision to profiteer as any …
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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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In the context of a global security framework that mitigates interstate conflicts, nation-states establish a reputation … corroborates the role of reputation-building through co-ethnicity narratives as a determinant of sponsor state engagement. We argue …
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reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public …
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We study the impact of communication on behavior in a two-stage coordination game with asymmetric payoffs. We test experimentally whether individuals can avoid a head-to-head confrontation by means of coordinated strategies. In particular we analyze whether and how quickly a conflict-avoidance...
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young children fail to anticipate the benefits of reputation building. We also show that the cognitive skills of children …
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We develop a product market theory that explains why firms invest in general training of their workers. We consider a model where firms first decide whether to invest in general human capital, then make wage offers for each others' trained employees and finally engage in imperfect product market...
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This paper presents the results of a field study at a large financial services firm that combines multiple methods, including two economic experiments, to measure ethical norms and their behavioral correlates. Standard survey questions eliciting ethical evaluations of actions in on-the-job...
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Product quality is often unobservable ex-ante and consumers rely on experts' judgments, sometimes in the form of ratings or awards. Do awards affect consumers' choices or, conversely, are they conferred on the most popular products? To disentangle this issue, we use data about the most important...
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This paper experimentally investigates the nature of image concerns in gift giving. For this, we test variants of dictator and impunity games where the influences of social preferences on behavior are kept constant across all games. Givers maximize material payoffs by pretending to be fair when...
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