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Choosing a partner for social exchange : charitable giving as a signal of trustworthiness
Fehrler, Sebastian; Przepiorka, Wojtek - 2016
, we study whether trustees can signal their trustworthiness by giving to charity. Our results show that donors are indeed … induce perceptions of trustworthiness and trust. …
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From citizen's rights to civic responsibilities
Ronconi, Lucas - 2019
In less developed countries the state does not extends its legality homogenously. A share of the population suffers its absence or its illegal presence. In this article we argue that such irregular state intervention has more negative consequences that previously thought. Individuals who suffer...
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Disclosure, trust and persuasion in insurance markets
De Meza, David E.; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Reyniers, Diane J. - 2010
This high-stakes experiment investigates the effect on buyers of mandatory disclosures concerning an insurance policy's value for money (the claims ratio) and the seller's commission. These information disclosures have virtually no effect despite most buyers claiming to value such information....
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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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Household debt and crises of confidence
Hintermaier, Thomas; Koeniger, Winfried - 2015
We show that the size of collateralized household debt determines an economy's vulnerability to crises of confidence … rise to multiplicity of house prices. In a dynamic setup, we conceptualize confidence as a realization of rationally … confidence may drive house prices and aggregate consumption. …
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Can financial incentives help people trying to establish new habits? : experimental evidence with new gym members
Carrera, Mariana; Royer, Heather; Stehr, Mark; Syndor, … - 2017
We conducted a randomized controlled trial testing the effect of modest incentives to attend the gym among new members of a fitness facility, a population that is already engaged in trying to change a health behavior. Our experiment randomized 836 new members of a private gym into a control...
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WHO and for how long? : an empirical analysis of the consumers’ response to red meat warning
Carrieri, Vincenzo; Principe, Francesco - 2020
the 2015 WHO's warning about the carcinogenic effect of red meat consumption. We use high-frequency data and implement a … difference-in-difference-in-differences model which exploits the seasonality in red meat consumption and the heterogeneity in … with higher levels of education correctly reduced red meat consumption and over a longer period. Our findings suggest that …
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Social responsibility in market interaction
Irlenbusch, Bernd; Saxler, David - 2015
A recent debate raises the question whether market interaction erodes social responsibility. In an experiment, we disentangle three major characteristics of market interaction, diffusion of responsibility, social information, and market framing, and provide evidence for how these characteristics...
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Reputation as insurance : how reputation moderates public backlash following a company's decision to profiteer
Arroyos-Calvera, Danae; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2022
We examine whether a company's corporate reputation gained from their CSR activities and a company leader's reputation …
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When too good is too much : social incentives and job selection
Reggiani, Tommaso; Rilke, Rainer Michael - 2020
We analyze the effects of substitutability of social incentives on the labor supply of gigworkers (N=944) in a natural field experiment. In our treatments, we vary the proportion of the worker's wage that is donated to a social cause. Our experimental design allows us to observe the decision to...
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